To finish our our topic we have thought about what we might like to do for a job when we grow up. We thought about all of the different people that help us and lots of other professions too. We looked at their uniforms and then painted what we would choose to be! We are…
This week, Year Five have been delving deeper into their focused text ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and learning more about the key characters Hiccup, Toothless and Snotlout. In order to connect with the emotions of each character, the children created freeze frames to portray the scene where the characters in the story accidently wake…
Over the past couple of weeks we have been learning about different countries and adding information to our world map. We discovered that Handa from the story Handa’s Surprise lives in Kenya in Africa and one of the children in our class has relatives in Thailand. Following on from our walk this morning, we also…
Year One learned all about Shabbat as part of their RE learning about Judaism ✡️ They learned a song and danced along to help them to learn about what they would need to do to prepare for Shabbat and help them to remember the greeting Shalom. Here is the link if you’d like to have…
Today we have read a story called Odd Jobs, we thought about things we do at home and school to help our parents and teachers. Following on from the story we all thought about the jobs we would like to have in the classroom when it is tidy up time – we have all been…
This week, Year Five combined their maths and geography knowledge together to investigate the differences in biomes around the world. The children used line graphs to focus on temperature and how this was different from biome to biome. This children carefully considered geological reasons behind this.
This week, Reception designed their own fruit salad following on from reading the story of Handa’s Surprise. The children selected what fruits they would like in their fruit salad. Then they chose and made it, before tasting it at the end of the day. The children even tasted a few of the less common fruits…
Year One have been improving their maths skills this week, using Base 10 apparatus to support their understanding of tens and ones. They’ve been working on two digits numbers and using apparatus to represent them, focussing too on the language of more, less and equal to. They were also set a challenge on Number Day…
We are so impressed with how all of our children have engaged with open discussions and activities linked to their mental health this week! 🧠 From thinking about their future careers, working in teams to stay safe online 💻, to spotting signs of growth around them and within themselves 🌱, and when target setting and…
It’s Children’s Mental Health Week and we’re raising awareness at Hillside! We’ve launched with an assembly, talking about how we can grow together. We are always growing and changing (like a tree 🌳 ) and some growth is really easy to spot (like losing our teeth 🦷 or getting taller!) but we also grow mentally,…