This afternoon in Year Six during our Growth Mindset lesson, we looked at the story of Malala Yousafzai and how she helped to get an education for other girls. In groups, they made their own app that could help others over come hurdles by problem solving.
In PSHE, the children have been labelling the parts of the body. They tried to use more grown up language than they have used in the past. They will use this language when they go on to looking at how our bodies change through the human life cycle in science.
This week we have been learning about doctors and how they can help us. We have read the story ‘Going to the Doctor’ and talked about our experiences of seeing the doctor. We have looked at the doctors equipment and what they do, then practised with it in our doctors surgery, lots of children have […]
Our super scientists have been working collaboratively this week when working scientifically and sorting solids, liquids and gases. There was lots of discussion around those ‘tricky’ ones such as sand, cream, ice and toothpaste.
This week we have started our new topic all about people who help us, we have been learning about the emergency services and how they can help us. We talked about ringing 999 and we decided if different scenarios were emergencies or not. The children have enjoyed role playing police officers and firefighters and had […]
This week, we have welcomed some new children to our Nursery class through our rising three’s scheme. They have settled so well, made lots of friends and we are so proud of them all! Welcome to Hillside!
Year One have started learning about the Great Fire of London and in English have been using their drama skills to tell the story of Toby! They had to add expression, use vocabulary from the story, consider how the characters felt and add actions to each part! Incredible 🔥
This week in Year Five, we’ve stepped into Christmas as we created seasonal calendars for our friends and family.
In PHSE, we had lots of enthusiastic group work and interesting conversation about the importance of exercise. We all came to the conclusion that we can always add extra bit to increase our physical activity (ideally 60 minutes per day).
The children have had a great time at Amerton Farm this week, they went to visit Santa and tell him their Christmas wishes. They met some of Santa’s reindeer up close and were then sent on a tractor and trailer ride to find the rest of the herd – it was a little bit bumpy! […]