Holly Hill Primary and Nursery School

Experiences and Opportunities at Holly Hill

Our Experiences and Opportunities

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Experiences and Opportunities at Holly Hill

At Holly Hill, we believe that your primary school years should be the time of your life. We believe that primary life should be busy and exciting and should encourage children to join in and embrace new experiences, preparing them for the opportunities provided in secondary education and beyond.

Our experiences and opportunities have developed over time to become more coherently planned out to ensure that all children can participate in a variety of rich experiences that enhance the curriculum, are inline with the school's intent statement and strengthen the school’s wider offer. This could be in the form of educational visits, workshops, residentials, after-school clubs or whole school events and celebrations.

We also really, really love a party!

We are extremely lucky to have a wonderfully supportive PTA, 'Friends of Holly Hill', who fundraise to ensure that many of our experiences and opportunities can be subsidised, reducing cost to parents.

We have a shared ethos with Friends of Holly Hill that we want for our Holly Hill children, exactly what we want for our own children. We want ALL children to have a wonderful Christmas, we want ALL children to get an Easter egg, we want ALL children to experience a jubilee party and whenever they are able to, they provide funding.

EXPERIENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES, 2023/24

Easter competition 2024

Spring Term 2

Bricks4Kidz club

We are pleased to say that Bricks4Kidz are running an after school club for years 1 to 6 on a Thursday evening.

The theme is ticket to ride and children will get chance to build motorised models.

All details and links are below and a leaflet will have been sent home from school.

If you are interested please look at the details below and follow the link to sign up on their website.

Holly Hill School booking link

Bricks 4 Kidz Club Holly Hill link

Bricks 4 Kidz Club video for Spring2 half term

Nottingham University and Year 2.

Year 2 have been really lucky and have had a visit in school from David, who works with the outreach group at Nottingham University. He has told us lots of information about universities and what they are. We have enjoyed finding out what subjects you can learn and other things you can do at university.

Nottingham University Visit 15.11.23

What an inspiration!

Today, Year 2 had the fantastic opportunity to visit the Nottingham University Campus and see what university life is like.

We met some university ambassadors who talked to us about being at university and the amazing experience it is. They told us about their courses and all the things a university has to offer. We all think it sounds brilliant.

We were then taken on a guided tour of some of the campus. We saw a lecture theatre where the learning takes place, study rooms, libraries and lots of busy students. We had chance to see many other buildings on campus and even went from one building to another in a tunnel!

We all feel very inspired and many of the children said they would like to go to study at university.

What a great day.

Dogs Trust Visit

We were very lucky to have Dogs Trust come and visit us in school. We had a whole school assembly followed by workshops for F2 and Years 3/4. We all learned super important rules about staying safe around dogs and how we can help to look after them.

Pumpkin carving competition - October 2023

On 4th October all the Year 1 children went to Sherwood Forest to learn about the legend of Robin Hood, explore the forest and even took part in den building.

In EYFS the zoo sent me... a dog! Rosie was perfect and we loved learning how to care for her!

Experiences and Opportunities, 2022-2023

07.06.23- Year 3/4 had a 2 day Roman experience

We had two lambs visit us at Nursery and we helped feed them with bottles of milk

10.5.23 F1 have been learning about different occupations and dressed up as what they would like to be!

3.5.23 EYFS have had a Wheels Day, learning about different transport and how they move.

27.04.23 UKS2 have started their ukulele units in Music this half term 🎶

24th April 2023 - Key Stage 1 experienced an immersive Great Fire of London workshop

19.04.23 F1 pupils went on a sensory walk to explore and describe different textures.

30.03.23 Upper Key Stage 2 all had the opportunity to design and print with a 3D printer!

23.3.23 KS1 had an amazing day working with a local artist. clare Taylor of Bus and Bird Art spent the day in school and supported the children to create sculptures using natural materials. It was fantastic for the children to learn from a real artist.

21.3.23 F1 pupils planted beans to learn about growth and changes over time. Will they grow as tall as Jacks beanstalk?

17.3.23 Kingfisher Class took part in an event with the D.H.Lawrence museum and earned their Artsmark. They had a virtual tour of the museum and enjoyed creative activities in school.

14.03.23 We took part in Virtual British Science Week 2023 run by Adastral Park. They led a live Q&A on the theme of ‘Extended Reality’ with input from BT, industry experts and academics. We had some of our questions answered and loved learning about the possibilities of extended reality in our lives and future careers!

2.3.23 F1 pupils made edible caterpillars by threading food on to skewers

21.02.23 Poet Paul Cookson came and gave us the most enjoyable, engaging and inspiring workshop!

10.02.23 The Young Voices choir performed and sang their hearts out at Sheffield Utilita Arena as part of the largest children’s choir in the world! We had a live band and professional singers including legend, Heather Small!

Don’t Worry @ Young Voices

Violinist Anna Phoebe and The Beat Box Collective @ Young Voices

Nile Rodger’s Disco Medley!

1.2.23 F1 pupils learn how different vegetables grow and tasted them

10.01.23 Reverend Ken Johnson led a brilliant Islam Experience Workshop. Despite being a Christian himself, he showed us artrefa to, played music and taught us so much about understanding and respecting other faiths.

24.1.23 F1 pupils learnt all about the festival Chinese New Year and we tasted Chinese food

11.1.23 The Great Holly Hill Bake Off in F1

07.12.22 Every child in our school had the opportunity to take part in a Christingle Service thanks to the wonderful Vicar of St Helen’s church.

25.11.23 F1 pupils made terrible creatures like the Gruffalo using clay and natural objects which they collected from Whisper’s Woodland

7.11.23 F1 pupils learnt about different occupations by role playing in the Holly Hospital

Our Perfectly Petrifying Pumpkin Parade

11.10.23 F1 pupils baked bread and followed the same instructions as the little red hen.

13.10.23 Upper Key Stage 2 visited Shakespeare’s hometown: Stratford-Upon-Avon! We loved spotting all of the Shakespeare references in the town and while admiring passing boats were even recruited to help open the locks!

28.9.23 F1 pupils performed Little Rabbit Foo Foo using different musical instruments

15.9.23 F1 pupils dressed in as many different colours as they can to be unique and learn about diversity

Experiences and Opportunities

2022-2022

7.3.22 Magic Mike came to our school for the KS1 What a Performance topic

8.3.22 Our winning reading diary entry - Well done Sophie Bingham 📚😊

The 25th World Book Day 3rd March 2022

Experiences and Opportunities

2019-2020

Pumpkin Party Disco - see Friends of Holly Hill section within Community.

Welcome to school year 2018-2019

Gents Open Event 14th June 19

All the entries for the decorated eggs and hats looked fantastic. Two winners from each class were chosen and presented with an Easter egg. Just some of the entries shown here.

Easter 2019

Ladies' Open Afternoon with fun, tea and cakes. March 2019

World War 1 Centenary Activities

Grandparents Open Event with tea and cakes - Oct 2018

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Welcome to 2017-2018

Summer 2018.

Holly Hill Primary School Drama club presents William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

School Council - Their ideas in action - school disco recycle bins.

A few Christmas events at Holly Hill and within the community - so far

Do you want to build a snowman? Fun in the snow at Holly Hill, 11th December 2017

A very enjoyable trip to create art and music with Nottingham Trent University and Kidology Arts - Pleasley Pit Dec 17

Tour of Britain cycle race stage 4 6th September 2017

We all enjoyed our morning at this event.

Congratulations to F1 children, they won the best decorated bike.

End of School Year 2016-2017

Father's Day Afternoon - Thank you all for spending time within school. 14.06.17

Class pages may also show photographs from this event.

Holly Hill's Got Talent 2017. The Final - April

Holly Hill has got talent. A range of performers entertained the audience before the judges decided on the winning three acts.

Congratulations to all the performers, Yong Voices and Cheer leading club. Thank you to everyone who supported this event.

Easter hats and decorated eggs 2017. Fantastic creations again this year. Well done everyone. Enjoy the photos. Happy Easter

The day the School turned red - all for Comic Relief. March 17

Ladies Open Afternoon -March 17 Thank you for supporting this event.

World Book Day March 2017 - more photographs on individual class pages. We love reading!

Kingswood 2017! We had a fabulous time on our residential with Year 2 and the children were an absolute credit to us all! Enjoy looking through our photos!

Kingswood Parents!

We are having a blast! Have spent all afternoon outside playing in the mud and then raft building. Tea has been demolished (lasagne and garlic bread) and now we're getting ready for the campfire. No signs of anyone slowing down yet - think it's going to be a long and noisy night! Mrs Steed xxx

P.S the wifi signal isn't strong enough to upload the photos quickly so I promise I'll do them all tomorrow when we get back! X

We have arrived! The sun is shining here at Kingswood and we have settled into our bedrooms - they are a tip already! Currently doing parachute games - the noise is deafening! X

Holly Hill presents our hand bell group - have a listen to our festive songs

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Lantern making event and lantern walk to St Helens church for the christingle. 14th December

Children in Need November 18th 2016 - Thank you for supporting this event.

Holly Hill Whole School Art Day.

We had a fantastic day creating portraits in the style of different artists. We all had great fun and the art work was amazing.

Walesby Forest Residential for Year 5/6

Thursday 16th June 2016 - Open Event for Dads.

The rained stayed away while the children enjoyed a range of activities with their Dad, Uncle or Grandad.

Foundation Stage Cream Tea - Wednesday 15th June 2016.

Thank you for supporting this event. More photographs will be on the Foundation Stage web pages.

Photographs from KS1 Beach Party Disco - See Community PTA section of the website.

Photographs from KS2 disco - 18.05.2016 - see Community PTA section.

Easter bonnet and decorated egg competition.

Wow! What a fantastic response.

It was very hard to choose the winning entries. Each class had a winning egg and bonnet. Have a look at some of the entries across the school. The winners received a Easter egg.