Welcome back to Year One who have amazed us with their smiles, super effort and energy since returning to school! As part of our learning during British Science Week, we have ventured outside to spot signs of seasonal change and have continued to observe patterns over time. We found daisies, daffodils, curled up leaves and […]
It was brilliant to welcome all the children back into school today. It was lovely to see so many smiling faces on the playground this morning and around the school building during the day. We hope that parents have enjoyed seeing the children back into school and that the children have had a good first […]
On World Book Day, Year Four were very fortunate to be able to ‘meet’ Dr Lynne Bianchi, the author of Smart Pickings book, for a question and answer session. Lynne told us all about her early life, how she trained to be a primary teacher and how she now works at Manchester University, working to […]
It has been such an exciting week for the Nursery children both at home and school with lots of different book week activities to enjoy. The children have been very busy writing book reviews, making bookmarks, creating their own under the sea scene and story, reading lots of new stories and lots more! Here are […]
What a fabulous week Reception have had for our last week of Lockdown and also for our Book Week. We have had so many exciting activities to choose from and had the opportunity to be as creative as possible. We have produced some amazing pieces of work and learned so many new things. We loved […]
Year One have loved World Book Week, investigating their gifted text, ‘Where the sea meets the shore’ and ‘Flotsam’ and finding out more about the sea and the creatures hidden in there. They have written amazing acrostic poems, thought about what characters may say and designed super bookmarks. The children in school had a pirate […]
It has been lovely to see our amazing year twos enjoying book week. Thank you for sending in your pictures of reading, baking, quizzing, researching, making and everything else that comes with the fun of book week! Below is just a small selection of what we have received. Amazing year two! Have a well-deserved rest […]
What a super week we’ve had this week! Year Three have been very busy during Book Week completing amazing work. They have enjoyed painting and researching different sea creatures, creating masks and bookmarks and sharing their favourite books. We hope you had a great time snuggling up with a book each day!
Year Four have had a very busy Book Week, being involved in lots of reading related activities. We started the week off with book tasting and enjoyed finding out about and exploring the book Flotsam. This led onto thinking in more detail about the underwater settings in the story, which led onto us planning and […]
This week Year Five have been celebrating their love of literature during book week at Hillside. We have all been very busy reading, enjoying and appreciating our favourite authors. Lots us have completed creative projects from recreating the front cover of our favourite books to creating colourful book marks and even cakes! We are extremely […]