On Monday, Year Three travelled back in time and visited the Stone Age. We had an amazing day learning all about Stone Age artefacts and different ways of life. We created our own spear heads from slate and crafted clay fat lamps just like the Stone Age people would have used for light. We were…
During a recent PSHE lesson, the children discussed money and what it is used for. They also discussed the importance of saving money to buy things that they want. Some children explained how they complete jobs at home to earn pocket money. The children then listened to the song ‘If I had a Million Dollars’…
Year Six have enjoyed an incredible week at Stanley Head. It is amazing to see how each child has grown over the course of the week. Children have been bouldering in the roaches and learning about rock formations, reading maps and symbols to complete a scavenger hunt, throwing axes, shooting rifles, stacking crates, canoeing and,…
This afternoon we have welcomed our daddies in to school to celebrate Father’s Day with them. We have completed craft activities, enjoyed garden games in the sun ☀️ and cakes, biscuits and drinks. The children have thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon and hope you have a lovely day on Sunday!
This week, Year Five completed their Access All Arts Week project where they have looked at the skills associated with both photography and cinematography. They have created successful perspective photos whilst also experimented with different genres.
This week in Science, year two have learnt three new words: transparent, translucent and opaque. They predicted and explored this with a torch and the many materials around the room, recording their findings along the way.
Year One have been set a challenge during science week and that has been to think of lots of questions! 🙋 They use question spinners to help and posed the question, ‘What do animals eat?’ 🤔 We then used secondary sources on the iPads to investigate, we learned the terms carnivore 🦁 herbivore 🐑 and…
During their recent music lesson, the children were writing and playing a rhythm using different pitches on the ukuleles.
This week, we have been conducting a scientific enquiry to find out what would happen when we put a paper towel into two different colours of water. We had blue and yellow, red and blue and red and yellow. The children came up with lots of fantastic ideas, which were recorded on post-it’s. We observed…
WOW! Just look at all of our Hillside Heroes! We have such a range in school today: superheroes, doctors, vets, armed forces, teachers and mums and dads are just a few of our fab costumes! Thank you all so much for supporting Help For Heroes, we hope to have raised lots of money (and if…