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Holly Hill Primary and Nursery School

Autumn 1

Our topic this half term is Great Explorers

We’ll be using the texts Everest and Great Adventurers to drive our learning across the curriculum. 

Scroll down to see what we get up to ⬇️

10.10.25 Heroes 👌🤩

Freestyle Football assembly ⚽️⚽️

Impressive!

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Did somebody say Pringles!?

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7.10.25 Using manipulatives to test whether numbers are square or cube numbers 🟨🟪🟧🟦🟥

And of course before the lesson started, Miss Fretwell let us play with the manipulatives, and some people already knew what we’d be doing!

03.10.25 Publishing a best piece of our information text. 🛳✍️✨

Wow write hack - listen to Horrible Histories! Such a calm and productive afternoon 💙

02.10.25 Proof-reading with the editing experts 👌

01.10.25 Say hello to the Swan school councillors! 👋 Everybody who wanted to run gave their reason to be on school council, and then anonymously voted. Cory and Theo were the independent adjudicators and counted the votes, and Seb and Jake will be our representatives! 🦢

The Year 6 reading stall at Mrs Watson’s parent reading workshop 📚

26.09.25 Super swan heroes!

19.09.25 Well done heroes!

19.09.25 The champions of using lines of latitude and longitude to locate key locations on a map 🏆🥇

15.09.25 In today’s handwriting lesson, we learnt the phonetic alphabet!

12.09.25 The first of many fabulous heroes in swan class 🌟🦢

11.09.25 In geography, we’ve been looking at lines of latitude and longitude. We used our knowledge to label key features on the globe (a balloon 🎈) as well as labelling the continents! 🗺️

10.09.25 Mastering place value in maths 🔢

09.09.25 A bit of handwriting, then an English lesson retrieving information about the explorer Ranulph Fiennes!

08.09.25 We had the fantastic Phil come and deliver a game show ... sorry, I mean assembly, about water this afternoon! We learnt all about the careers involved in the water industry, as well as some practical water saving tips. 💦💦

05.09.25 What floats your boat? 🛳🚤 We kicked off WOW DAY with some science - making the boat that can carry the most explorers!

There were some successes! 🚢

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... and also some sinking 🫠

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Making explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott some sledging biscuits - we had mixed reviews! 👀😍🤮🤢

We also designed our own expedition ship! You can also ask us about blubber gloves, but it was disgusting!! 😬🫢

Would it be a WOW DAY without some art?! Trust the process for this one...

03.09.25 OUR FIRST DAY - MEET TEAM SWAN 🦢🍎💙🤩

The first thing we did this morning was talk about what a good class sounds like👂, looks like 👀 and feels like ❤️

Then we applied for class jobs, which we loved! 🧹📚🪟💡👨‍💻💻

Then we spent the afternoon launching into our new Great Explorers topic! We learnt about Ernest Shackleton and his famous Endurance ship 🧭🗺🚢

Smile and wave boys 😁👋

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