This week we have been learning about the Diwali festival. The children have listened to and recalled The story of Rama and Sita, used small world to retell the story, made rangoli patterns and decorated mendhi hands. We have talked about the firework displays that are a big part of the Diwali celebrations and had […]
The Year Three children have been learning about skeletons this week in science. There had been a disaster – Miss McCann’s skeletons had fallen to pieces! The children were tasked with putting them back together again. There was lots of fantastic conversation about where each of the bones are located in the body and some […]
Reception have been developing their computing skills this week by programming the Beebots to move around the carpet and painting firework pictures using Purple Mash. Well done Reception. The next steps for the Beebots are to programme them to move to a specific location. This is something that we will be working on, over the […]
Today Year Three and Year Five welcomed a special visitor to Hillside. Karen Petherick is the new vicar at Milton church and she came to introduce herself and give a brief introduction to Christianity. The children listened beautifully and contributed lots of thoughtful answers to the questions posed. We are all looking forward to getting […]
Our Year 6 children were nothing less than inspirational during the city wide rock off that took place during the final week of the last half term. They battled tirelessly in the competition and played at every available opportunity including giving up their break and lunch times to ensure their class ranked highly on the […]
Over the last six weeks, children have been practising individual skills in gymnastics: cat-leap full-turn, stag-leaps, hurdle-step cartwheels with round-offs, backward rolls to pike and diving forward rolls. This week, they put everything together than they had learnt into one final team performance – what they produced was exceptional. Well done Year Six; you’re all […]
This term, the children have completed gymnastics on Thursdays. They have developed a range of skills, including different ways to move, balance and jump. The pictures show children practising straight jumps, half turn jumps and tuck jumps. They practised on their own mats before evaluating each other on the performance mat. After half term, they […]
This week we learnt a new song called ‘5 little ghosts on a witches broom’, we carefully counted the ghosts and each time one flew away we re-counted. Our counting to 5 is amazing and we even tried showing the right amount of fingers for a challenge!
Year One have learned all about the Jewish Celebration of Shabbat. They learned about why it is special and that it is always celebrated from sunset on a Friday until sunset on a Saturday EVERY SINGLE WEEK! They then had our own Shabbat meal, pretended to light the candle sticks, ate some bread and had […]
We were fortunate enough today to welcome back Mr Such for a Harvest Assembly. Some of the Y6 children helped to lead the assembly and some of the Y4 children also assisted. The assembly finished with a harvest quiz, where the children learned more exciting facts about harvest.