Holly Hill Primary and Nursery School
Spring 1
Scroll down for weekly updates on all our learning adventures! Our topic this half term is...
CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH WEEK - TASKMASTER STYLE! Task 1: Draw the most important thing in the world to you - upside down!
CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH WEEK - TASK 2: Make the best rainbow! 🌈
Task 3: Make the best hat - using only recycling! ♻️
02.02.24 Look at these smiling faces, excited to skateboard! 💙🛹
Skateboarding action shots!
A skateboarding time lapse 🛹
A skateboarding time lapse 🛹
In action!
Learning some tricks 😄
My amazing heroes this week! 🦸♀️ 🦸♂️
31.01.24 This afternoon, we finished our Computing unit and successfully turned our micro:bits into a working step counter!
It even motivated us to keep walking!
We took the micro:bits on a walk to test out whether they worked - it was a success! 🚶♀️
25.01.24 To celebrate some of Swan’s successes last week, today we had snack club! Biscuits, sweets and Newsround! We won the attendance award last week and our reading diaries were bursting with reading and spelling practise at home. Super Swans, you’re living up to your name! 🦢 🦸♀️ 🦸♂️
24.01.24 In Jigsaw, we studied Ellie Simmonds - Paralympic swimmer - and how her disability made her special. Lucas was inspired to bring his Guinness World Records book to tell us about some other inspirational people with disabilities. 💙
23.01.24 Today in English, the hot seat came out! We took on the roles of characters from our story Boy in the Tower. We turned their direct speech into reported speech, ready to write a newspaper report next week!
22.01.24 We started our trip to the National Justice Museum with some group pictures! 📸
We started the morning preparing to act out a court trial in a Victorian court. We loved this! Swans did a wonderful job acting and made me very proud!
Judge Freya! 👩⚖️
Prosecution Barrister Zander 👨⚖️
Lucas delivering the final verdict on behalf of the jury 💼
The witnesses: Aiden
The witnesses: Macey
The witnesses: Joe
The witnesses: Ethan
The witnesses: Jesse
The defendant: Freya
We headed to the museum and met some characters, who taught us about crime and punishment through the ages. We saw prison cells, tested out stocks and carried out some Victorian punishments!
A spot of washing! 🧼 🧽
A spot of rinsing! 🪠🧺
18.01.24 This afternoon, we took part in a live show called ‘Spaceship Earth’ and played the role of aspiring space engineers and scientists!
We even got to do a rocket launch countdown to blast off! 🚀
17.01.24 Today was our introduction to the micro:bits in our computing lesson. We labelled the parts of a micro:bit and started to explore the workspace to program the device on the computers. We loved this lesson!
09.01.24 Today, we started our textiles unit in DT. We’re starting simple with a basic running stitch. We loved this lesson! 🪡🧵
08.01.24 Welcome back! We got stuck into our new topic ‘How to Save the Human Race’ today by designing an advert for ‘Day of the Triffids’. We tried to use the 4 sentence types, along with some specific adjectives. Of course, we got creative and designed some flesh-eating plants too! 🌱🪴
