This week Reception have been reading the story ‘Whatever Next’ about a little bear that makes his own rocket and flies into space. As well as acting out the story, we have been recreating some of the objects that you might see in space, such as the planets. We used marbling ink to create the…
Thank you to every single one of you for supporting Hello Yellow 2022 and dressing to impress! 💛 Wearing yellow certainly made the sun shine at Hillside and it was lovely to lead our assembly and discuss the importance of our mental health ☀️ The children could name so many emotions, knew that all emotions…
Year Six have been working hard on classification grids. After organising animals based on common, observable characteristics, then then worked on classifying themselves by writing their own classification grid in chalk on the playground.
This week we have been looking at our houses on google maps, we have spotted out house and talked about who lives there with us. We have then been busy creating a picture of our house thinking about what colour it is and what colour door we have? The children have been amazed to see…
The children have been busy exploring and creating animations, by using onion skinning and inserting backgrounds and sound effects. We definitely have some very skilled animators amongst us!
This week we have been investigating which material would be best for the Princess’s bed in the Princess and the Pea story. She had had a terrible night sleep due to sleeping on a hard pea. We tested paper towels, cotton wool, bubble wrap, felt and sponge. A lot of the children predicted that the…
To reinforce their understanding of number lines, the children took part in a maths hunt around school. They had to think carefully about the start and end number and use these to find the middle number. Doing this helped them to figure out what number was missing.
In Geography we’ve being spying and spotting in our school grounds! 🕵️♀️ We talked about rural and urban areas and then thought that where we live is a mixture of the two (although mostly urban but we do have lots of fields and it isn’t far to the countryside!) 🍃 We then found different shapes,…
This week in P.E., Year Five have been developing their teamwork and communication. They played lineball where they had to think carefully about positioning and defending in order to help their team earn as many points as possible.
Year Two have taken their computing outside this week. They learnt about web crawlers and played a game to simulate their important role in finding websites on the internet.