Year One have loved World Book Week, investigating their gifted text, ‘Where the sea meets the shore’ and ‘Flotsam’ and finding out more about the sea and the creatures hidden in there. They have written amazing acrostic poems, thought about what characters may say and designed super bookmarks. The children in school had a pirate…
It has been lovely to see our amazing year twos enjoying book week. Thank you for sending in your pictures of reading, baking, quizzing, researching, making and everything else that comes with the fun of book week! Below is just a small selection of what we have received. Amazing year two! Have a well-deserved rest…
What a super week we’ve had this week! Year Three have been very busy during Book Week completing amazing work. They have enjoyed painting and researching different sea creatures, creating masks and bookmarks and sharing their favourite books. We hope you had a great time snuggling up with a book each day!
Year Four have had a very busy Book Week, being involved in lots of reading related activities. We started the week off with book tasting and enjoyed finding out about and exploring the book Flotsam. This led onto thinking in more detail about the underwater settings in the story, which led onto us planning and…
This week Year Five have been celebrating their love of literature during book week at Hillside. We have all been very busy reading, enjoying and appreciating our favourite authors. Lots us have completed creative projects from recreating the front cover of our favourite books to creating colourful book marks and even cakes! We are extremely…
Year Six have been very busy this week, taking part in a range of Book Week activities. Though the circumstances of Book Week this year have been different to previous years, the engagement has been just as impressive, with children going to enormous effort with their work. Some entries to the book competition have already come…
We are so impressed with the fantastic start to the new topic that we have had. The children both at home and at school have been enjoying lots of farm related activities – we have been singing Old McDonald Had a Farm, making animal masks, creating our own farmyards by carefully following instructions, completing obstacle…
What a lot of exciting learning that went on last week in Reception. Our story of the week was The Disgusting Sandwich by Gareth Edwards. The children all made ‘nice’ sandwiches as well as disgusting ones. We hung our disgusting ones in the woods for the wildlife. Don’t worry it wasn’t too disgusting, a mixture…
Year two have kept up the same enthusiasm for their learning as they had before half term. It’s been wonderful to see all the hard work they have all put in this week. It’s making all the staff in year two very excited to welcome you back next week and share some of the great…
The children in Year Three, both at home and in school, blew us away with their hard work last week. They wrote some amazing openings to adventure stories about exploring Egyptian tombs, created fantastic food diaries, completed some magnificent money maths and lots more! We are so proud of you all. Keep up the amazing…