Year Four have been busy bakers this morning in the Roman Bakery. They have each made bread using a variety of Roman ingredients from their original design. We are going to be evaluating them during the afternoon, and bringing a sample home to taste.
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 […]
In maths, Year Six have been sifting through censuses from the Victorian age and using the information on them to answer questions related to mean (average). Children enjoyed the cross-curricular skills required for the lesson and enjoyed finding out about people from the past whilst learning important mathematical skills.
Year One created their very own toy shop today in the style of the artist, Peter Blake. They used catalogues to find their favourite toys, sketched and shaded them and then added them to their toy shop window. The window was adjusted numerous times to try and showcase their art in all its glory! 👩🎨 […]
Year One have studied the artist William Blake’s Toy Shop. The picture is of an old-fashioned window full of lots of exciting toys! They used magnifying glasses to find many different toys and searched for different shades of colour before practising their shading skills. They will create their own toy shop window full of toys […]
Thank you so much to everyone who came to our showcase today – we loved sharing our learning time with you! The singing and dancing was amazing, the cup and ball competitions were frantic and we loved finding out about your favourite toys from long (and not so long) ago! Thank you and we hope […]
Year One had an absolutely fantastic visit to the Brampton Museum on Thursday and went on an adventure with William and Amelia who had lost some of their toys! They started by meeting the cook and creating toys for the children to play with, then discovered lots of old toys (including a zoetrope), went on […]
It’s History Day today at Hillside. Each class is having one lesson in every classroom within their key-stage today. Children are moving around the school learning about different people and events from the past. Each class-teacher has prepared engaging activities to help children learn about something/one that they would otherwise not get the opportunity to […]
As part of our History learning, Year One have been sorting old and new toys. They decided that most wooden toys were older as grandparents might find wood that they could use to make toys. Grandparents wouldn’t have been able to mould plastic at home to make the new toys we have today like dolls […]
Thank you to everybody who came to our Year Five showcase. We hope you all enjoyed taking part in our Ancient Greek Olympics and becoming part of a Greek state. Everybody performed really well and we were thrilled with the results. During maths we interpreted the results and calculated the average point per competitor for […]