Special places in Reception

This half term in RE we are focusing on special places. The children went on a treasure hunt to find jigsaw pieces which, when put together , make a picture of Mrs Ashton’s special place at school. Can you guess where it is?

Tracing Viking Territories in Year Five

This week in our history lesson, we identified former Viking territories using modern-day maps. To do this, we learnt all about suffixes which were associated with Viking legacies and researched the meaning behind these. It was lovely to see the children combining their history and geography skills together.  

DT in Year Four

The Year Four children have been disassembling and investigating a range of packaging today to learn how boxes are made from 2d nets. They identified the faces, glued tabs and interlocking tabs to understand all the different parts needed to construct a box. They were also introduced to the CAD (computer aided design) program on […]

Gymnastics in Nursery

We have enjoyed showing off our fantastic gymnastic skills in PE this week, we completed a sequence of jumping off the apparatus, followed by a roll and finally finishing with a posh pose! Fantastic work Nursery!

Year Five’s Space Camp Experience

Last week, we successfully held a residential space camp with our Year Five children at school. The camp started with their science lesson on Thursday afternoon, where in their current topic of Earth and Space they were investigating what causes the shape of different craters on the moon. They then returned to school at 17:30, in […]

Reception’s Church Treasure Hunt

As part of their learning on Christianity and Easter, Reception went on a treasure hunt around the local church. They had to find several features such as a font, pulpit and candles. They had great fun exploring and enjoyed seeing some of the artefacts that we had been learning about in class.  

Year One: Easter at Church

The whole school visited Milton Church this week and Year One particularly enjoyed finding out about the Christian festival of Easter and how Jesus died and rose again ⛪️ They sang the songs with enthusiasm, performed the jelly bean prayer with clarity and worked together to consider what each colour in the prayer represented 🙏 […]

Historical Discussion in Year Five

This week in our history lesson, we thought carefully about the Vikings raids which took place over Anglo-Saxon England. We mapped crucial events in chronological order and using a line graph decided if the particular action saw them in increase control over prized England!  

Pizza making in Reception

As part of our story The Little Red Hen makes a Pizza, we have made our own muffin pizzas. We talked about what we thought would happen when we put the pizzas in the oven. We thought that the sauce would get hot and the cheese would melt. We chose our own toppings and we […]

Kindness at Hillside Primary

What incredibly kind children we have at Hillside Primary! 🩷 Following on from our random acts assembly, nearly 100 certificates were awarded to children who helped at home, shared compliments with others, tidied up, made people smile, wrote lovely notes or drew pictures, looked after loved ones… the list was endless! We are very proud […]