Year One have been investigating mechanisms including levers to help them to create their own burning house! The challenge is to create a street from 1666 – when the Fire of London took place – using levers to make it appear that their houses have set alight! 🔥 They tested different movements – sliding up,…
On Friday it is Random Acts of Kindness Day and we’ve shared an assembly about kindness this week and considered what we could attempt to show kindness towards others 💜 At Hillside we’ve been set a challenge: to complete a random act of kindness at home or in school! It could be tidying their room, completing…
We have been learning about Children’s Mental Health week in school. After our assembly we continued with the theme of ‘Let’s Connect’ back in the classroom in our PSHE lesson. We each designed a puzzle piece to represent us and what makes us happy. Then we cut them out and connected them together to make…
This week in music we have been listening to the sounds of instruments and working with our friends to practise playing the instruments. We have learned how to play them loud, quiet, slow and fast and been practising using our fancy vocabulary pitch, tempo and dynamics to describe how we are playing the instruments!
This week, we’ve been working through our focused text ‘How to Train Your Dragon’. In the build up to our next explode the moment piece, we have completed a freeze frames of the dragons in the nursery scene. We carefully analysed their emotions and thought carefully about why the characters may have felt this we.…
This week, we have celebrated Safer Internet Day at Hillside. The children have taken part in a range of activities focused around this year’s theme: making space for conversations about life online. We encourage children to tell a trusted adult when something doesn’t feel right on the internet. In my assembly last week, we discussed…
The children have been working hard in gymnastics with Dan. They have progressed onto using larger equipment in their lessons and are building on their skills learnt in the Autumn Term.
Reception have had a fantastic afternoon exploring in the woods. We made our own muddy puddle so that we could investigate muddy wellie and hand prints. We made some great patterns. We also worked together carrying large branches to make dens, enjoyed climbing in the trees and just enjoyed being out in out lovely woodland…
Year One have been making their own Mezuzahs which are linked to learning in RE ✡️ Mezuzahs are used by Jewish people who have them on their doors so that as they pass through the rooms of their house they remember their faith and how important their God is, as part of the Shema prayer,…
Hillside is raising awareness of children’s mental health as part of the 2023 campaign, ‘Let’s Connect!’ 🙌 We’ve shared an assembly today that considered how when we work together and make connections, we can create truly wonderful things! Tomorrow we will be looking at online connections as part of Safer Internet Day and will be…