As part of our learning about the Gingerbread Man story, we talked about the route he took when he ran away. We then used a range of ICT equipment to create out own routes. We had to think carefully about where we wanted our Beebots and our bees to finish and then program our equipment […]
As part of their PE lessons, Year One have been combining their gymnastic skills! Year One had to create sequences that used travel, jumping, rolling and a straddle position with lots of different apparatus. They worked extremely hard to improve their techniques, listening carefully and moving steadily with some super finishing positions too. You can […]
Year Six children have started to write their non-chronological reports about Hillside for both the aliens, who crashed at Hillside during last week’s book week, and for the website for any other would-be visitors to find out a bit about our great school. Here is an example so far.
This week our Year Three scientists investigated the surface for a toy car to travel on. They worked in teams to perform comparative tests and measured the distance the cars had travelled on each one. Next week, they will present their data and draw conclusions from their findings. Well done Year Three!
Year Two have been reading the story ‘Jack and The Beanstalk’. This week, they showed their understanding of the story by unjumbling a set of words to create sentences with conjunctions. They explored the high-level vocabulary used in the sentences – super team work!
Nursery have enjoyed stretching their bodies to an ‘On the Farm’ themed yoga session. We moved along to Old McDonald had a Farm and pretended to be a chick , horse and cow. We then got stuck in some mud! What a fantastic adventure on the farm.🐴🐄🐖🐑
This week as part of our Christianity topic, we have been learning about Palm Sunday. In this picture, the children are re-enacting through song and dance, Jesus arriving in town on a donkey. The disciples are leading the way and the townsfolk are singing and dancing to celebrate his arrival. The song is called Jump […]
The children have been using place value counters to solve division problems that include exchanging. They are using this to help them to develop their understanding of written methods.
This week in their P.E. session with Dan, Year Five were practising their skills at tri-golf. The children with focusing mainly on their putting skills, ensuring they were gripping the club correctly and shooting accurately at a range of targets.
Year One have been working with Mr Hall this week on their singing skills. They have begun to practise for their Easter performance at the church with the rest of the school and want their singing to be perfectly tuned! They considered the Easter story, added actions to the songs and began to learn the […]