Year One went to visit Peak Wildlife Park where they saw lots of interesting animals linked to their learning! They spied penguins and polar bears linked to their geography and talked about animal types and what they ate linked to science too, listening to a keeper talk about lemurs and wallabies! 🐧🐻❄️ We were so […]
This week we have read the story ‘Boris Goes Camping’ and taken our learning outside, pretending we are on a camping adventure too! We have been catching butterflies, painting with mud, using chalk, having pooh stick races, colouring paper ready to decorate our big teepee and reading stories in the little teepee. We have been […]
Year One races their socks off at sports day! ⚽️ They tested their determination and PE skills and also showed super resilience when racing! ⭐️ They also showed compassion for each other, cheering and clapping everyone who took part showing super sportsmanship! Amazing! You are all champions! 🥇
We’ve been implementing our drama skills in our English lessons. We put ourselves in the shoes of Harry as he first entered Diagon Alley. We closely considered his emotions and began to reason why might feel this way.
This week we have been working together to play some exciting games using the parachute. We had to ensure that we were all following the instructions at the same time, so that the parachute moved in the way that we wanted it to.
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme is MOVEMENT! 🕺 We’ve shared an assembly and thought about lots of different things that help our mental health – the children were INCREDIBLE at coming up with so many ideas about how to looks after themselves and others and many of them linked to […]
KS1 have been inspired by the Halle Orchestra from Manchester 🎻 They came to share stories with us that were accompanied by music – the viola, violin, cello, drum, cymbal and glockenspiel 🎵 We heard about what happened after Jack left the beanstalk and when the three bears and Goldilocks became friends 👧 We all learned […]
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 🙏 […]
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 […]
Year One have loved book week, sharing a brew and a book with their family and finding out about Florence Nightingale, the lady with the lamp who changed health care for the better! 👩⚕️ They researched Florence, shared facts about her life and then created their own fact files. Well done everyone! 👏 See what […]