Last week, the children were playing a game in PE that focussed on recognising body parts. The children did a fantastic job identifying their own arms, legs, head, knees and then enjoying a little competition with their partner of winning the cone! Great work Nursery.
In PSHE, we have been learning about a balanced diet and how we need to eat a variety of foods to stay healthy. 🍎 We talked about what we had eaten during the day and considered which part of the food pyramid each food fit in to. 🥪 Lots of our sandwiches and the meals […]
This week the children enjoyed a trip to Rio de Janerio. They had their passports and boarding passes ready and listened carefully to the inflight safety video. During their trip, they enjoyed making and tasting Pão de queijo (Brazilian cheese bread), creating carnival masks, learning some Samba moves and were invited to Rio carnival. […]
We welcomed Mr Such in to school today to lead an assembly of remembrance. All children have helped to create a display of soldiers wearing poppies with flower bouquets, and Mr Such shared the importance of each element. All of the children observed the two minute silence at 11:00 and showed our school value of […]
Year Four have started their work on addition and subtraction this week, and have been demonstrating their skills from Year Three to solve column addition calculations.
To start their email unit the children worked in pairs to think about the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of communication. They displayed their ideas on a mind map created on Purple Mash.
Throughout this Autumn term, the children in Year Five have been learning all about the Ancient Greeks and how lots of their ideas are still fundamental to our lives today. This week, the children transformed the classroom into the Agora and saw the many different people you might of met there from fishermen to people […]
In Year Two, we have been learning about the values that Jesus taught to Christians. We then discussed some of the things Christians were thankful for in the world and how Christians thanked God. The children discussed that prayer was a way for Christians to thank God. The children then looked at a range of […]
This week, we have welcomed the arrival of our amazing reading vending machine. This amazing resource will be a wonderful incentive for our children to earn a special treat for their dedication to reading. The vending machine is particularly special as it was paid for, ordered and designed by the children of Hillside. We have […]
Year One have been learning about the creation of the world today as part of their learning in RE 🌎 They used drama, poetry and singing to retell the Christian story of creation – their favourite day was the seventh, when they all got to rest! See if we can retell the story at home […]