This week, Year Five were privileged to visit the theatre to watch the performance of Stem Sisters. The performance was fantastic and taught us all about the lives and discoveries of female scientists from all around the world. We also learnt about some vital qualities which the scientists had such as curiosity, courage and persistence.…
Reception are really enjoying adding famous people and places to our timeline and map of the world. Over the last few months we have learned about lots of different places like Kenya, Thailand and Australia and people including Guy Fawkes, Jesus, Paul Cezanne and St Patrick, amongst others. Some of these people lived a long…
In English, Year Three have been using different drama techniques to gain an understanding of what our characters were thinking and feeling during the events in ‘The Egyptian Pyramids’. They created freeze frames of their characters in a given event and then they used thought tracking to share their characters feelings in the moment.
As part of our learning about the Gingerbread Man story, we talked about the route he took when he ran away. We then used a range of ICT equipment to create out own routes. We had to think carefully about where we wanted our Beebots and our bees to finish and then program our equipment…
Year Six children have started to write their non-chronological reports about Hillside for both the aliens, who crashed at Hillside during last week’s book week, and for the website for any other would-be visitors to find out a bit about our great school. Here is an example so far.
Year Two have been reading the story ‘Jack and The Beanstalk’. This week, they showed their understanding of the story by unjumbling a set of words to create sentences with conjunctions. They explored the high-level vocabulary used in the sentences – super team work!
World Book Week has been a huge success again! We have immersed the children in high quality texts to promote a love of reading. The week began with an unusual sighting of a UFO hovering over the school and debris left on the field. The children were faced with CCTV footage, witness statements and a…
On World Book Day, Year Three learned a dance to ‘A Day for the Cat in the Hat’ from ‘Suessical the Musical’. They really enjoyed themselves and were definitely born to perform!
This week Reception have been focusing on report writing for our alien visitors! We had a think about what kind of animals the aliens would like to find out about and then thought about what we already knew about them. We went home and discussed our chosen animals with our parents before writing up our…
This week, Year Five have been delving deeper into their focused text ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and learning more about the key characters Hiccup, Toothless and Snotlout. In order to connect with the emotions of each character, the children created freeze frames to portray the scene where the characters in the story accidently wake…