Bible Stories in Year Two

In RE, the children retold the story of Matthew the Tax Collector. They realised that Jesus showed friendship and this was important for everyone.

Greek Chronology in Year Five

Within their history lessons, Year Five are focusing on the curious ancient Greeks. This week, our focus was on chronology as we thought carefully about the formation of timelines. Carefully, we considered how changes in time can be demonstrated through space on a timeline. Here is our timeline which we assembled using our bodies.

Jesus calms the storm in Reception

This week we had a visit from someone very special, Tessa, the puppet from our local church. Tessa is a Christian and she brought her special book, the Bible to share with us. Tessa read the story of Jesus calming the storm, whilst the children acted it out. It was such a special visit and […]

Place value in in Year Two

Over the last two weeks, Year Two have been learning about tens and ones in maths. They have used a range of manipulatives to help them partition numbers into tens and ones but also flexibly. Super work!

Forces in Year Five

This week in our science learning we have been measuring forces using Newton metres. We looked closely at the different scales and implemented our number line knowledge effectively to read them with accuracy. As the lesson progressed, we looked closely at the different between mass and weight. We understand that our mass never changes whereas […]

Year Four Drama

Year Four have been exploring their English text ‘Alfie’s Roman Adventure’ through drama. They wrote questions for Alfie, the main character, then interviewed him about the events int he story so far! Fantastic drama work.

Welcome to our New Nursery Children

This week our new nursery children have started their journey at Hillside. They have been busy making friends, getting used to the school routines and enjoying exploring our fantastic resources and areas. We have had a brilliant week and are very impressed with how well the children have settled!

Year One’s Poetry

Year One have begun their poetry unit by studying, labelling and then learning poems about vehicles! 🚘 This will link in to our learning about the local area when we visit Milton later in the term. We matched labels, used our phonics to write our own labels and then learned and performed poems for our […]

Hot seating in Reception

This week we having been reading the story of Whatever Next by Jill Murphy. Following on from this, we hot seated Baby Bear from the story. The children came up with some fantastic questions to ask Baby Bear about his trip to the moon. The answers were amazing!

Year Three Mathematicians

Year Three have started their Maths Unit with Place value and used concrete resources such as Base 10 and beads to represent numbers in different ways. Everyone was working very hard.