Year One’s Mystery Readers

Thank you to everyone who has been in to Year One to read over the last few weeks of 2019 and the first few weeks of 2020! We loved hearing Christmas stories from Marnie’s mummy as well as rhyming stories, action stories, number stories and funny stories from Eva’s nan, Dexter, Riley and Mary’s mummy’s! […]

Hillside Reading Bus Update

Wow! What an amazing transformation! Thank you to Mrs Davidson and Latham Upholstery for reupholstering the seats and totally transforming our bus. It looks absolutely amazing and is so comfy. The bus has also had a thorough clean – thank you to Mandy and Denise for this and thank you to John who has installed the […]

Better Reader – Friday 17th January 2020

A big well done to our Better Reader who received his certificate on Friday morning. He has been working hard and is more confident with his reading and really enjoyed it.

Nursery learning

Nursery have been reading the story ‘Curious George goes to the hospital’ this week. We have been learning about doctors and nurses- making our teddies feel better with bandages and plasters, collaging our own monkeys, making a walkie talkie similar to those that a paramedic may use and baking delicious banana loaf! The children listened […]

Reading in Nursery

Nursery have started their shared reading this week! They took their discussion books home on Friday and were very excited to share the story with Mrs Dixon and their friends! Well done Nursery!  

Active Literacy Club

The Active Literacy Club started today with year one and year two girls. We had a mission to go to the purple planet to meet the space pirates. First we had to build our rocket before learning all of the captain’s commands.  Next week we will be launching our space rocket into space.    

First week back

Reception have had a very busy, exciting week back at school. As well as dressing up as rockstars on Monday, we have used money to buy vegetables linked to the ‘Supertato’ story, written get well cards as part of our PSED work and this afternoon, we dressed up as our favourite characters.

Reading Rocket

Well done to all the children who achieved the Reading Rocket last term. It was a very busy time of the year but many of our children showed continued dedication to reading and all the staff are extremely proud of their efforts. The children have all received a small treat and will be treated to […]

Year One’s New Topic

Year One have begun learning about the Great Fire of London! In Maths they completed times tables flame challenges using dot to dots, in History they’ve been finding facts and in English, telling the story of ‘Toby’ a character who lived during the fire. They’re also using their Geography skills to locate the United Kingdom […]

Reading Rocket

Our first Reading Rocket of 2020 begins today Monday 6th January and will run for the next six weeks, ending on Sunday 16th February 2020. We hope the children will be encouraged to read five times per week and develop the habit of reading widely and often.