Boat building in Nursery!

We have read ‘Where the wild things are’ this week and were very excited about Max‘s going on an adventure on a boat. Nursery were set a challenge to build a boat to take them on an adventure, they could use paper, kitchen foil or Lego to build their boat and had to think carefully […]

World Book Week at Hillside

We have once again immersed the children in a week of exciting book themed activities to promote a love of reading. The children began the week with a Booknic. The children brought in blankets and cushions and enjoyed sharing and recommending books with their peers as they tucked into their picnic lunch. It was a […]

Year Three – We are Hobbits!

With World Book Week, we discovered The Hobbit from J.R.R Tolkien and inferred with how a Hobbit could live in the outdoors and what he would do in the Shire. This has helped us with our non-chronological report. We also completed our Woodland hunt finding clues along the Green trail. We were really busy Hobbits.

Book Week in Year Four

Year Four have shown themselves as super authors this week, when writing their adventure stories for our Book Week writing competition. They have been focussing on using ambitious adjectives for description, a range of fronted adverbials to give variety to their sentences and using a wider range of punctuation accurately.

Studying Chronology in Year Five

This week in Year Five we have been continuing to learn about the Anglo-Saxons. Our focus during the lesson was to consider how Pagan beliefs were overcome with a wave of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon society. We noted key changes on a timeline where we closely considered how changes in time were represented.    

Pottery in Year Two

Year Two have continued their learning about pottery and Clarice Cliff by experimenting with clay. Later in the week, they will use the skills they have learnt to make their own pot.

World Book Day in Reception

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 […]

Griffier in Year One

Year One have been studying Jan Griffier this week as part of their learning in Art linked to their History topic. They’ve considered his different paintings and style and focussed in on his painting of the Great Fire of London. His painting is well known as it shows us what London was like of the […]

Ancient Egypt Day in Year Three

The children have learnt all they will ever need to know about Ancient Egypt! We did an Ancient Egyptian dance for the Pharaohs, handled real Amulets (3,000 years old!) that would have been given to newborn Egyptian babies and tried an Egyptian Breakfast! 🍞 We went back into the classroom to have our Egyptian Breakfast. […]

Year Four musical talents

Year Four were showing off their musical talents this week when learning to play the ukulele. They were showing amazing concentration to play the correct chords to the songs. What musical superstars!