Year Six have been designated the task of building Jim Jarvis, from our English test ‘Street Child’, a market stall to sell his shrimps. Children are testing out the stability and sturdiness of existing designs before planning their own design and experimenting with joints. We will be eventually making our own market stalls out of […]
Year two have learned about the artist Martin Bulinya this term. They learnt many facts about his life, practised the skills and imitated a piece of his art before creating their own Martin Bulinya inspired art. They finished their unit by having a mini art gallery exhibit to showcase their wonderful work.
Year Three went on a trip to Rio de Janeiro this week. They met and handled lots of rainforest animals, learned some samba moves and tried Brazilian snacks. They all had a fantastic time and didn’t want to come home!
After learning lots of festive songs to sing, Year Five have created their own music to support them. It was fantastic listening to them performing on the acoustic guitars and percussion.
Last week the children had a very exciting trip to see Santa, we didn’t quite make it all the way to the North Pole but Santa very kindly met us at Amerton Farm. The children enjoyed a fun-filled day, having a ride on the coach, leaving school behind and heading on their first Hillside adventure, […]
In Geography, the children have been enjoying learning about the different stage and features of rivers. They have also enjoyed reading about the journey of a river in shared reading.
Last night’s Rowing event at Hillside was a fantastic success. A group of our Year 5’s welcomed a group of children from Burnwood Primary school. This was Burnwood’s first introduction to rowing. All of the children had great fun and managed to record some great times. Well done!
Year One had a brilliant day dressing up as toys and being visited by Alison from the Brampton Museum! She brought with her Bunting the cat and we shared the story of ‘Lost in the Toy Museum’ and investigated many old-fashioned toys! 🧸 We also learned about the history of Christmas and found out why […]
Reception are busy working hard on their Christmas hat designs for our Christmas dinner next week. They have to choose which shape they would like their hat to be, by dragging the points into position and then think about the colours and patterns that they would like. These are going to look amazing Reception. Well […]
Year One welcomed their parents in to school to share their learning about Toys and Christmas! They sang songs telling the story of Jesus through ‘Away in a Manger’ and made Christmas decorations including an angel for the top of their tree 🎄They also created their own cup and ball toy and taught their parents […]