Year One have been practising their singing the last few weeks, working on tune, recognising musical songs and singing in harmony as a group 🎶 They have talked about what a chorus is during phonics (as they’ve learned that ch sometimes says c) and have now created their own class choir – they’re getting very […]
In PSHE, we have been learning about a balanced diet and how we need to eat a variety of foods to stay healthy. 🍎 We talked about what we had eaten during the day and considered which part of the food pyramid each food fit in to. 🥪 Lots of our sandwiches and the meals […]
We welcomed Mr Such in to school today to lead an assembly of remembrance. All children have helped to create a display of soldiers wearing poppies with flower bouquets, and Mr Such shared the importance of each element. All of the children observed the two minute silence at 11:00 and showed our school value of […]
To start their email unit the children worked in pairs to think about the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of communication. They displayed their ideas on a mind map created on Purple Mash.
This week we read a beautiful story about Remembrance Day that helped us to understand why we have this special day. We learned about why we wear poppies and who it is to remember. We made our own Remembrance cards, artwork, and play dough poppies amongst lots of other exciting activities.
Children have enjoyed having Mr Such in class today to talk about his Christian faith. Prior to the lesson, children prepared questions to ask Mr Such. They asked very mature questions such as ‘Do you ever doubt your faith?’ and ‘As a Christian, how do you help others?’. Thank you to Mr Such for visiting […]
Children have been up the woods for their science lesson today, finding molluscs, annelids, arachnids, and insects. They loved discovering new animals and we are going to use the pictures they took to classify them by observable characteristics.
In PSHE, our learning has been focused on communication. The children had to listen to statements and decide if the agreed or disagreed with them. They then had a debate where they shared their reasons with the rest of the class and tried to persuade others to agree with them.
Year One have visited Milton this week as part of their learning in Geography about the local area. They studied the houses and buildings, visiting the florist, park and chippy! 🌲 They also completed a traffic survey and found that cars were the most popular vehicle 🚗 It was amazing to study our local area […]
Thank you to every single one of you for supporting Hello Yellow 2022 and dressing to impress! 💛 Wearing yellow certainly made the sun shine at Hillside and it was lovely to lead our assembly and discuss the importance of our mental health ☀️ The children could name so many emotions, knew that all emotions […]