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"This is a happy and thriving school. Pupils say that care and respect are the school’s most important values. They know these values are central to everyone following, ‘The Holly Hill Way’. Pupils demonstrate these values in their sensible behaviour and considerate manner", OFSTED 2023. This is a 'good' school.
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Holly Hill Primary and Nursery School

Autumn 1

W.B - 14.10.24

E X C I T I N G . N E W S: Sir David Attenborough has replied to the letter we wrote in English! He congratulated us on looking after the natural world. 🌎 What a wonderful piece of mail to receive.

🎃 AMAZING ENTRIES 🎃

Andy Warhol inspired art in the making - fabulous job Kingfisher!

Art: Making a carbon print of our photos ready to paint in pop art style. 🎨

Pop Art - We have been practicing the technique of ‘Ben Day’ dots. It takes patience, as you have to make the dots run in straight lines 🎨

Science: Practising the skills of drawing a scientific diagram and piecing together our learning using the hexagon method.

Hockey: Kingfisher successfully played a hockey match in three teams. There was some great reneging and dribbling 🏒

W.B - 07.10.24

English: We have started writing a non-chronological report about Greta Thunberg. She has been an inspirational person in our class. 🌏

Fantastic team work by Kingfisher, researching the work of Greta Thurnberg 🌍

W.B - 30.09.24

English: After writing a script for a David Attenborough programme, Kingfisher have started recording their voice over. 🐧

Science: looking for magnetic materials in the classroom, and testing the strength of the magnetic field. 🧲

Well in the warmth of the October sun, Christmas happened today, complete with Christmas 🎄 music. Kingfisher have started to design some beautiful cards ready to be printed and ordered nearer the time. 🎅 🎄

A M A Z I N G! Well done to Kingfisher for their awesome breakdancing and beatboxing! 🎤 

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Finalising our letter to send to Sir David Attenborough. Here’s hoping he has the time to read it in his very busy schedule 🌍 ✍️

Art: As part of our Pop Art work, we are drawing in the style of Keith Haring ❤️

W.B - 23.09.24

English - Kingfisher have been efficient note-takers, in preparation for quitting a T.V wildlife script. 📺

Art: Kingfisher have been practising secondary and tertiary colour mixing. We had a very successful art session! 🎨

English - We have written some letters to Sir David Attenbourugh and compiled it into one copy to post. Let’s hope he responds! 🌍

Computing - We have made a real life network of messages around the classroom. There were some issues: sometimes we lost track of who we had messaged in the system and when we messaged via the ‘switch’ , it slowed the system down. 💻

W.B - 16.09.24

Hockey 🏑 skills: Kingfisher have been practising ball control by stopping the hockey pass from their partner.

W.B - 09.09.24

Science: Forces. We started our science by looking for push and pull things around our building. 🚪 💡

P.E: Kijgfisher’s first session in P.E and we have been practising our hockey passes 🏑 Great job 👍

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