This week in music we have been listening to the sounds of instruments and working with our friends to practise playing the instruments. We have learned how to play them loud, quiet, slow and fast and been practising using our fancy vocabulary pitch, tempo and dynamics to describe how we are playing the instruments!
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, we have celebrated Safer Internet Day at Hillside. The children have taken part in a range of activities focused around this year’s theme: making space for conversations about life online. We encourage children to tell a trusted adult when something doesn’t feel right on the internet. In my assembly last week, we discussed […]
The children have been working hard in gymnastics with Dan. They have progressed onto using larger equipment in their lessons and are building on their skills learnt in the Autumn Term.
Reception have had a fantastic afternoon exploring in the woods. We made our own muddy puddle so that we could investigate muddy wellie and hand prints. We made some great patterns. We also worked together carrying large branches to make dens, enjoyed climbing in the trees and just enjoyed being out in out lovely woodland […]
Year One have been making their own Mezuzahs which are linked to learning in RE ✡️ Mezuzahs are used by Jewish people who have them on their doors so that as they pass through the rooms of their house they remember their faith and how important their God is, as part of the Shema prayer, […]
Hillside is raising awareness of children’s mental health as part of the 2023 campaign, ‘Let’s Connect!’ 🙌 We’ve shared an assembly today that considered how when we work together and make connections, we can create truly wonderful things! Tomorrow we will be looking at online connections as part of Safer Internet Day and will be […]
We’ve begun our new area of learning in geography in Year Five – Scandinavia. As a start to this unit, we investigated the continent of Europe via an atlas hunt. The children demonstrated a fantastic understanding of the different countries in Europe and their locality.
This week we have been learning about how Christians say thank you to God. We learned a song called Thank you Lord for this new day, which we really enjoyed singing. We also remembered how we celebrated Harvest in the Autumn term and how we collected food for the food bank. We then thought very […]
We’ve had lots of fun looking at photos of ourselves as toddlers and our parents as year twos this week. The children loved guessing who was in the photo and everybody was very proud to reveal the answers! We’ve learnt that offspring look like their parents and that people change in many ways as they […]