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 […]
This afternoon in Year Six during our Growth Mindset lesson, we looked at the story of Malala Yousafzai and how she helped to get an education for other girls. In groups, they made their own app that could help others over come hurdles by problem solving.
In PSHE, the children have been labelling the parts of the body. They tried to use more grown up language than they have used in the past. They will use this language when they go on to looking at how our bodies change through the human life cycle in science.
This week we have been learning about doctors and how they can help us. We have read the story ‘Going to the Doctor’ and talked about our experiences of seeing the doctor. We have looked at the doctors equipment and what they do, then practised with it in our doctors surgery, lots of children have […]
Our super scientists have been working collaboratively this week when working scientifically and sorting solids, liquids and gases. There was lots of discussion around those ‘tricky’ ones such as sand, cream, ice and toothpaste.
This week we have started our new topic all about people who help us, we have been learning about the emergency services and how they can help us. We talked about ringing 999 and we decided if different scenarios were emergencies or not. The children have enjoyed role playing police officers and firefighters and had […]
This week, we have welcomed some new children to our Nursery class through our rising three’s scheme. They have settled so well, made lots of friends and we are so proud of them all! Welcome to Hillside!
Year One have started learning about the Great Fire of London and in English have been using their drama skills to tell the story of Toby! They had to add expression, use vocabulary from the story, consider how the characters felt and add actions to each part! Incredible 🔥