Mary Anning visits Year Six

Children have been fortunate enough to have received a visit from Mary Anning this week. She delivered a workshop, which showed how she became a famous Palaeontologist (person who studied fossils). Children replicated her work by digging for the remains of some species. They asked very good questions and showed a superb understanding.

Science in Year Two

Year Two is full of super scientists! We have been looking at animals and humans this term and the children loved exploring photos of themselves as babies and toddlers and pictures of their parents as children. They played a matching game and discovered that parents look like their offspring. We have also been learning about […]

Reception Design a Fruit Salad

This week, Reception designed their own fruit salad following on from reading the story of Handa’s Surprise. The children selected what fruits they would like in their fruit salad. Then they chose and made it, before tasting it at the end of the day. The children even tasted a few of the less common fruits […]

Hillside’s Space Camp

Last week, we successfully held our first residential space camp with our Year Five children at school. The camp started with their science lesson on Thursday afternoon, where their current topic is Earth and Space and they were learning about how the rotation of the Earth gives us day and night. After school, they put on […]

PSHE in Year Three

Year Three have been exploring different ways of keeping ourselves healthy, including our mental health this week. We have worked in teams to share ideas and presented our information in the shape of something healthy. In the end, some of them looked good enough to eat!

Year Four trip to Chester Zoo

The children enjoyed a fantastic trip to Chester Zoo. We learned about animals, their habitats, which continents they can be found and their risk of becoming endangered due to deforestation and other risks. A lot of the animals we managed to see lived in South East Asia where there are rainforests and it is also […]

Year Three’s Science Shock! 

Our scientists had a bit of a shock this afternoon when they opened up their amaryllis box, expecting to find a bulb inside. The bulb must have got bored of waiting to be planted and decided to have a go at growing all by itself, with no soil, water or proper light! We just hope […]

Doctors and Dentists in Nursery 👩‍⚕️ 

The children in Nursery have had a very busy week learning about the important jobs of doctors and dentists. We have thought about our own experiences and thought about when we may need to visit a doctor or dentist. We have also been thinking about ways to keep ourselves healthy and look after our teeth. […]

Daffodil Planting in Nursery

This week we have enjoyed planting our own Daffodils 🌼 . We looked at the bulb and talked about the shoots that we could already see, we thought about the different things we needed to do to look after our Daffodils. We know that we need to give them water if it doesn’t rain 🌧. […]

Materials in Year One

Year One have started their new science learning about materials, grouping and sorting lots of different random items! The different teams decided how to sort in lots of different ways! They sorted by colour, size, shape and purpose and then some sorted by what they were made from, like plastic, wood or fabric. Lots of […]