Holly Hill Primary and Nursery School
Autumn 1
Scroll down to see some of the fantastic learning and adventures we get up to!
This half term, our topic is...
20.10.23- Wow what a busy last day of half term we’ve had!! Wearing red to give racism the red card (a few Swallows missing) ! 🔴❌❗️🟥
20.10.23- pumpkin competition!! 🎃 Swallows loved having a look at the entries and a big well done to those who participated!! 👏🏼
20.10.23- Making our Design Technology final project! We chose 3 moving parts and created different levers to demonstrate this. Some excellent problem solving, perseverance and proud moments! We even got to show off to Kingfisher!
Our working levers!!
19.10.23- final geography lesson, drawing and labelling the water cycle. First double page spread! ☀️ 💧 ☁️ 🌧️
18.10.23- Times table board game, a race to the finish!
13.10.23- Black excellence day, we’ve had a fantastic day involving reading, poetry, music with basket balls and art!
Our poem inspired by Benjamin Zephaniah
Creating collages ✂️
12.10.23- TTRS! 🎸
12.10.23- Final assembly about online safety... we are internet legends! 🤖
06.10.23- creating our own water cycle bags in geography!! They are all up on the windows and we are looking forward to see what happens! ☀️ ☁️ 🌧️ 💧 🌊
06.10.23- using the thesaurus’s to upgrade our descriptive words in English 📖 ✍🏽
04.10.23- super busy science lesson, experimenting different materials and their melting temperatures 🧊
04.10.23- ordering parts of the story “a river” as part of our whole class reading 📖
03.10.23- Basketball in PE with Mr Ellis 🏀
02.10.23 In Mrs Cordon’s Maths group, we competed a Power Up Challenge, where we chose a digit card and had to think carefully about what place value to give it in order to be the winner!
29.09.23- making and eating unleavened flatbread as part of our RE, thinking about Jewish people escaping the Egyptians 🍞
27.09.23- Drawing and labelling parts of a river in geography 🏞️🌳☀️
27.09.23- First Wow Write, brilliant writing atmosphere from Swallow class! ✍🏽
22.09.23- after learning parts of a river, we made our own! It had to be water tight as we tested to see if it held the water too 💧We were super proud of our rivers!🏞️
Can our rivers hold water?
“😯 it’s rising!”
21.09.23 ordering parts of our English text ‘The Lost Thing’ into chronological order.
20.09.23- having a go at making our own levers in DT, lots of problem solving occurred to ensure the levers moved as expected! ✂️ 🧷
Some of the finished products
13.09.23- exploring different levers in books to kickstart our D&T topic 📖
12.09.23- Year 3s have been busy with exploring place value up to 1,000. We have been making numbers to see the hundreds, tens and ones.
12.09.23 In Maths with Mrs Cordon, Year 4 Swallows used number cards to partition numbers with 3 and 4 digits!
12.09.23- in science we grouped different pictures into a pile of solid, liquid and gas
08.09.23- STEM WOW DAY! Swallows completed three different exciting activities focusing on the states of matter. What a fantastic day we’ve had!
08.09.23- WOW session 1, in Swallow class we focussed solids and had the challenge of building a bridge out of straws, lollipop sticks and paper. Swallows showed amazing team work and had great discussions, the results are impressive!
08.09.23 STEM WOW DAY SESSION 2. Swallow visited Mrs Cordon to take part in an Ice Melt Challenge! We used different methods to see who could melt their ice cube the fastest: blowing, squeezing, wrapping, chipping, shaking and salting!
08.09.23- STEM WOW DAY, session 3. In Kingfisher classroom, Swallow focussed on gas and were challenged to make the balloon travel along the string.
We found that smaller balloons travelled faster. 🎈
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07.09.23- For our art enhancement we sketched the Great Wave and then used watercolours, focusing on using blues for the ocean 🌊
06.09.23- Number and place value matching in maths!
