Year One have been improving their maths skills this week, using Base 10 apparatus to support their understanding of tens and ones. They’ve been working on two digits numbers and using apparatus to represent them, focussing too on the language of more, less and equal to. They were also set a challenge on Number Day…
We are so impressed with how all of our children have engaged with open discussions and activities linked to their mental health this week! 🧠 From thinking about their future careers, working in teams to stay safe online 💻, to spotting signs of growth around them and within themselves 🌱, and when target setting and…
It’s Children’s Mental Health Week and we’re raising awareness at Hillside! We’ve launched with an assembly, talking about how we can grow together. We are always growing and changing (like a tree 🌳 ) and some growth is really easy to spot (like losing our teeth 🦷 or getting taller!) but we also grow mentally,…
Number Day was a huge success and the children were fully immersed in all things maths related. The staff worked hard to make maths fun and to focus on developing positive ‘can do’ attitudes. Learning consisted of number hunts (using the numbers they have worn), practise of basic maths skills using our amazing online programmes…
Year One have started their new English text, ‘Vlad and the Great Fire of London’ linking their English and History learning. So far they’ve explored facts from the story, found new vocabulary and worked out lots of tricky new words (like inferno!) and have shared the story together, practising their growing reading skills. They also…
Last week, we successfully held our first residential space camp with our Year Five children at school. The camp started with their science lesson on Thursday afternoon, where their current topic is Earth and Space and they were learning about how the rotation of the Earth gives us day and night. After school, they put on…
Year Three have been exploring different ways of keeping ourselves healthy, including our mental health this week. We have worked in teams to share ideas and presented our information in the shape of something healthy. In the end, some of them looked good enough to eat!
This week we have been learning all about the traditions of the Chinese New Year. We found out where China was in the world and looked at the size of the country compared to ours – it looks huge! We have loved listening to, ordering and acting out the story of the Chinese Race ,tasting…
Year Two have recently learnt about Africa. They explored parts of Africa that are rich and parts that are poor with a focus on Zambia. They then discussed poverty. They role played what it would be like to travel to the river to get water for their family and they also made posters, just like…
The children enjoyed a fantastic trip to Chester Zoo. We learned about animals, their habitats, which continents they can be found and their risk of becoming endangered due to deforestation and other risks. A lot of the animals we managed to see lived in South East Asia where there are rainforests and it is also…