This week, we have finished our creatures that we started for World Book Week, we created our own creature and painted it. We then used our creature to tell a story about the adventures the creature went on. We had some great imaginative stories!
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Handa’s Surprise in Reception
This week Reception have been reading the lovely story of Handa’s Surprise. The story is about a little girl who lives in a rural village in Kenya, Africa. After reading the story, we found Kenya on our world map, then discussed the similarities and differences between Handa’s homelife and ours.
Soup Chefs in Year Five
As part of our DT learning on culture and seasonality, this week we have made and evaluated our own winter vegetable soups. We carefully practised different forms of peeling and cutting safely to prepare our soup. Also, we tasted and evaluated our creations.
More Art in Year One
Year One have continued their artwork linked to the fire of London this week. They used poster paint to add houses then used their collage skills to add flames! They will share their work in a gallery, commenting on what they like, how they could improve their painting and considering if their houses are truly […]
School closed today – Friday 10th March
Due to heavy snow fall overnight, the condition of Field Avenue and surrounding roads, the continuing snowfall forecast for the morning, we have taken the decision, for health and safety reasons to close Hillside today. The decision has been made for the safety of parents, our children and staff.
Year Three – Perimeter Master!
Year Three have been busy understanding perimeters by using concrete and pictorial resources. They even measured their own tables.
Boat building in Nursery!
We have read ‘Where the wild things are’ this week and were very excited about Max‘s going on an adventure on a boat. Nursery were set a challenge to build a boat to take them on an adventure, they could use paper, kitchen foil or Lego to build their boat and had to think carefully […]
World Book Week at Hillside
We have once again immersed the children in a week of exciting book themed activities to promote a love of reading. The children began the week with a Booknic. The children brought in blankets and cushions and enjoyed sharing and recommending books with their peers as they tucked into their picnic lunch. It was a […]
Year Three – We are Hobbits!
With World Book Week, we discovered The Hobbit from J.R.R Tolkien and inferred with how a Hobbit could live in the outdoors and what he would do in the Shire. This has helped us with our non-chronological report. We also completed our Woodland hunt finding clues along the Green trail. We were really busy Hobbits.
Book Week in Year Four
Year Four have shown themselves as super authors this week, when writing their adventure stories for our Book Week writing competition. They have been focussing on using ambitious adjectives for description, a range of fronted adverbials to give variety to their sentences and using a wider range of punctuation accurately.