Just a little reminder that our Reading Rocket ends this Friday. Please can you makes sure that your child’s reading diary is up to date to be put into the prize draw. Due to our book change day now being a Friday, we will be sending enough reading books home to last the children over…
Today, Reception were very lucky and had a visit from a mermaid! Her name was Mermaid Hannah and she had a beautiful tail! She told us that she lives in a shell palace under the sea with her friend Oceana. She explained to us that she went to school under the sea and answered lots…
Year One have had a great week exploring many different areas of the curriculum! From identifying and classifying trees and plants in the (rather muddy) woods to building Sukkah’s as part of their RE work on Sukkot to investigating number and ordering from smallest to greatest and vice versa, they’re really impressing their teachers! Year…
What a wonderfully bright and sunny end to the week we have had at Hillside with our Hello Yellow celebrations! The children all look amazing in their yellow clothes and have enjoyed taking part in challenges, telling jokes and making each other smile! The children throughout the school have taken part in different activities in…
The children have worked exceptionally hard on their first piece of English writing and Mr Frost and Mrs Wainwright are very impressed with the work they have produced. As a reward for their hard work, Year Six spent yesterday afternoon up the woods, where they read out their stories whilst eating marshmallows and drinking hot-chocolate.…
This week the children have been thinking about different feelings. We have read ‘The Colour Monster’ and talked about how the different colours made the monster feel, we have thought of times that we have felt that way too. The children have been very creative and been making collage monsters using different materials throughout the…
Reception are having a very exciting week exploring the world of dinosaurs. On Monday, they discovered that our resident dinosaur had laid some dinosaur eggs. The children were so excited, they looked after the eggs carefully and were rewarded at the end of the day by the birth of 4 baby dinosaurs. They also witnessed…
Our amazing Year Twos have been reading The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. They recently met a new character: the cat. These are the facial expressions that they thought Plop (who was seeing the city for the first time) and the cat (who had seen it so many times before)…
This morning, the children have had a ‘visit’ from the man from ‘The Great Kapok Tree’ – all the way from the Amazon Rainforest! The children did an amazing job of getting into character and being hot seated, with the other children asking some very inquisitive questions. Miss Hayward was very impressed by Year Three’s…
Teach Your Monster to Read is an award-winning phonics and reading game that’s helped millions of children learn to read. Children create a monster and take it on a magical journey over three extensive games – meeting a host of colourful characters along the way and improving their reading skills as they progress. The game…