During this half term, Year Five have been getting to grips with using the rowing machines. We have been working very hard on our technique and are looking forward to challenging ourselves in the coming weeks by increasing the length and pace of our rowing.
Hillside have remembered those injured or lost in wars both past and present. All children have held a thoughtful two minutes of reflection and carefully listened to an assembly within their classes. Year Five and Year Six also had a Remembrance Service kindly delivered by Mr Such where they observed flags and wreaths being placed […]
This week, the children have started their English unit all about non-chronological reports. They enjoyed reading a range of reports all about the Romans and learnt some interesting new facts. Why not ask your child what new facts they have learnt? Over the next couple of weeks, we will be continuing to look at the […]
Children have been both holiday planners and interior designers this week. Using mathematical concepts to work within a budget, children have demonstrated good economical awareness by calculating total cost and underspend/overspend.
This week the children have been learning all about different values. We thought carefully about our own values and discussed them amongst the class. Also, we considered the values which a Christian person might have and where these could be seen in the Bible.
Year One loved bringing in their own toys today to start their new topic – Toys! They considered where their toys were from, what they were made of and told us all about why they liked them. There was a fab range of toys from dolls to cars to dinos! 🦖 We also began to […]
On Monday, the whole school explored the big story of the bible. Following an introductory assembly by Mrs Ashton, each class took one of the key concepts to investigate in more detail. The concepts being Creation, Fall, People of God, Incarnation, Gospel, Salvation, Kingdom of God. The children were fascinated and enjoyed the wide range […]
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 […]