This week we have been raising awareness of mental health and how important it can be to connect with nature! We have shared an assembly and now know how to bring the outside in (maybe eat brekkie by a window!), how to notice nature (using our senses to look carefully) and how to appreciate and…
Through Parentmail, you have received a letter about training for parents on the 20th May at 6pm via Teams. Donna Mountford, from Staywell, is offering a course in Understanding Self-Esteem and Building Resilience and there is still time to sign up for the training which will provide lots of ideas for supporting your children and…
Year Two have enjoyed a wonderful Number Day today. They started the day playing maths games with their friends. Afterwards, the children linked their history work based on Christopher Columbus by using directional language to plot Columbus’ journey to The Americas on a map. This afternoon, the children took part in a number hunt before…
Year Three have had so much fun during Number Day. They have been working as teams to go on a number scavenger hunt and to solve the mystery of the missing glue sticks. They have learned about how numbers were recorded in the Stone Age and have taken on the role of travel agents to…
Year One have had a brilliant number day looking at mathematics skills throughout the day! We enjoyed playing a guessing game using super vocab then we completed a shape and number challenge – we can’t wait to see who wins! We linked our maths to careers and our History learning, working out how maths is…
Well done to everyone in school for showing extra kindness this week as part of our mental health awareness week. All of the children and adults have noticed little acts of kindness happening – from chairs being tucked in, extra manners, kindness shown to friends – and it has been lovely to hear some of…
Every week, Year One are showing great gains in their reading skills, becoming not only more fluent, expressive readers but also improving their comprehension and understanding of a text. They are reading ‘Sammy the Street Dog’ which is closely linked to their learning in History and is all about the Great Fire of London. Sammy…
May the 4th is anti-bullying day worldwide and at Hillside this year, we have talked about how important it is to choose kindness. We have shared an assembly and talked about how being kind and having people be kind to us makes us feel, how important it is for our mental health and other peoples,…
Year One are enjoying finding out more about the Great Fire of London this week. They’ve used the computers to explore an online game, pulling down buildings and putting out fires as well as considering the historical sources we use to find out about events that happened long ago. They’ve sorted pictures in to old…
Nursery had a very exciting delivery of 2 chicks yesterday (unfortunately not the ones that we had in the incubator!). We had a busy afternoon getting them settled in the classroom, thinking of special rules and how we need to do to look after them and having a vote to pick their names! We are…