In assembly today, Mrs Wainwright delivered an assembly on Bananagrams. At Hillside we are holding our own Bananagram Championships in school for years 3, 4, 5 and 6. Bananagrams is an addictive word game wherein lettered tiles are used to spell words- like Scrabble but without the board. The children will begin by battling against each…
Mr Gray is helping Year 5 with their learning about WW2. He is providing us with a talk about his own experiences of living through the war. He has a wealth of resources both from, and about the war and is explaining what life was like for a child during this time. The children are…
This afternoon Year 4 have been enjoying their first Mini-me yoga session. They have practicing yoga poses and exploring breathing techniques. Ask your child to show you their favourite pose – popular ones include the giraffe pose, the boat pose and giggle breath. Lots of fun!
This week we have read the story ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’, throughout the week the children have been role-playing a green grocers using real vegetables, exploring the cut up vegetables, sorting vegetables by their initial sounds and creating vegetable plots with different construction materials. We also used the vegetables to do some lovely colourful printing – we…
Safer Internet Day 2019 (Tuesday 5th February) is only a few weeks away and teachers in school are busy making preparations. As part of this they have been speaking with children about the games and applications they use. Here are a series of parent guides produced by National Online Safety around the most common games and apps…
She has completed the Better Reading Partnership, spending the last ten weeks working with Mrs Green to improve her reading pace, fluency and comprehension skills and has worked hard with her parents at home. Well done for making great progress!
Yesterday was an amazing afternoon. Children took part in a ‘sit spot’. They find somewhere in the woods to sit…under a tree…or on a log.They listen to the sounds, feel & draw. They can draw a picture, write a poem or a story. It’s up to them. One of the children created a poem she…
Congratulations to the children who have been recognised for their excellent work last week and shared it in celebration assembly this morning. Keep it up!
Well done to the children who have been recognised for displaying one of our school values and were awarded with a Headteacher’s certificate in celebration assembly this morning.
Thank you to Freddie’s Aunty Lauren who came in to read ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’ to us today! Freddie’s shocked face was wonderful to see and the children loved listening and remembering all of the clothes that the giant gave away to help others! The story fit in brilliantly with our assemblies on being…