This week the children in Reception have enjoyed so many new books and have really developed their love of reading. In this picture they are doing a book tasting! Trying a book they have never looked at before, choosing their favourite picture that captures the essence of the story and recording the title. Well done…
This week, we’ve been working through our focused text ‘How to Train Your Dragon’. In the build up to our next explode the moment piece, we have completed a freeze frames of the dragons in the nursery scene. We carefully analysed their emotions and thought carefully about why the characters may have felt this we.…
This week the children have been learning about the Emergency Services and practising what to do in an emergency. When we visited the woods we made up our own emergency stories and pretended to ring 999, telling them of the emergency and where we were. Well done Nursery !
Year Six are starting their D.T project today, which will eventually require them to build a market stall for Jim (the main character from the class text, Street Child) to sell his shrimps. Today, we are creating prototypes of existing market stall designs to evaluate their sturdiness, protectiveness and stability.
Year One have been getting to grips with their new English text, linked to their learning in History about the Great Fire of London 🔥 They have been acting out the part of Toby, using their amazing drama skills to retell his story. They’ve sequenced the pictures, added text and rewritten the story simply in…
The children received a very special story all the way from the North Pole. It was simply called A Christmas Story. The children have worked hard to read the story, learn some fancy vocabulary they could include and write a brilliant story (they even had the year two quiet critters watching them work hard!)
This week we have been reading the story of the Gingerbread Man. In the story, the Gingerbread Man was struggling to cross the river and was eventually eaten by the fox. The children have been challenged to build a bridge for the Gingerbread Man, to help him escape. They worked together using a variety of…
Year One have been practising their singing the last few weeks, working on tune, recognising musical songs and singing in harmony as a group 🎶 They have talked about what a chorus is during phonics (as they’ve learned that ch sometimes says c) and have now created their own class choir – they’re getting very…
This week, Reception have had a fantastic time learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali. After reading the story of Rama and Sita, the children acted it out as well as making play dough diva lamps, Diwali cards and lots of rangoli patterns. We also did some Diwali yoga and Indian dancing before writing out…
This week, we have welcomed the arrival of our amazing reading vending machine. This amazing resource will be a wonderful incentive for our children to earn a special treat for their dedication to reading. The vending machine is particularly special as it was paid for, ordered and designed by the children of Hillside. We have…