This week’s visit from illustrator and author, Kate Leake, was truly inspirational. The children have learned so much about her life, the books she has illustrated and how to become an illustrator themselves. The children also took part in many other reading related activities such as book tasting, author of the term research, book reviews, […]
In PSHE, our learning has been focused on communication. The children had to listen to statements and decide if the agreed or disagreed with them. They then had a debate where they shared their reasons with the rest of the class and tried to persuade others to agree with them.
Year Four have been securing their understanding of place value of four digit numbers by using their place value chart to explore adding and subtracting from each column. Their hands on exploration has ensured they can observe the exchanges needed when crossing boundaries.
Year One have visited Milton this week as part of their learning in Geography about the local area. They studied the houses and buildings, visiting the florist, park and chippy! 🌲 They also completed a traffic survey and found that cars were the most popular vehicle 🚗 It was amazing to study our local area […]
This week Reception have been reading the story ‘Whatever Next’ about a little bear that makes his own rocket and flies into space. As well as acting out the story, we have been recreating some of the objects that you might see in space, such as the planets. We used marbling ink to create the […]
Thank you to every single one of you for supporting Hello Yellow 2022 and dressing to impress! 💛 Wearing yellow certainly made the sun shine at Hillside and it was lovely to lead our assembly and discuss the importance of our mental health ☀️ The children could name so many emotions, knew that all emotions […]
Year Six have been working hard on classification grids. After organising animals based on common, observable characteristics, then then worked on classifying themselves by writing their own classification grid in chalk on the playground.
This week we have been looking at our houses on google maps, we have spotted out house and talked about who lives there with us. We have then been busy creating a picture of our house thinking about what colour it is and what colour door we have? The children have been amazed to see […]
The children have been busy exploring and creating animations, by using onion skinning and inserting backgrounds and sound effects. We definitely have some very skilled animators amongst us!
This week we have been investigating which material would be best for the Princess’s bed in the Princess and the Pea story. She had had a terrible night sleep due to sleeping on a hard pea. We tested paper towels, cotton wool, bubble wrap, felt and sponge. A lot of the children predicted that the […]