Year 5 – Science

In Year 5, the children have been studying the different ways to separate materials in their Science lesson last week. They took part in their own experiments which investigated the processes of sieving, filtering, evaporation and magnetism.

Year 5 – Book Talk!

A very special suitcase arrived in Year 5 last week! Inside were lots of interesting black and white illustrations which the children have been studying. These illustrations have been taken from our class novel, ‘The Arrival’ by Shaun Tan. They have been making very careful observations of what they can see in these images then … Continued

Carr Hill Winter RUNderland – Week 2

Well done to all of the classes taking part in our Winter RUNderland challenge. In the last 2 weeks, children from across the school have taken part in a variety of physical activities, including swimming, the Daily Mile, yoga, football, basketball, and much more. We saw children from across the school take part in 5,900 … Continued

Carr Hill Winter RUNderland – Week 1

Our first week of our Winter RUNderland challenge saw children from across the school take part in 2,300 minutes of physical activity across the week! This is an amazing start to our challenge! Santa was so impressed by our efforts to help his reindeer, that he sent us all postcards! Keep a look out for … Continued

Winter RUNderland

Winter RUNderland is our Christmas themed, physical activity challenge, that all of the school can get involved in. Every Christmas Eve, Santa Claus travels around the globe to deliver presents to all of the worlds’ children. Of course he doesn’t do this alone and relies on his trusty reindeer to help him! They get tired … Continued

Positive Noticing

Last Friday, we spent time during the day thinking about the power of ‘positive noticing’. Positive noticing is a simple, practical and highly effective system to help raise the self-esteem of our pupils. We spent the day encouraging pupils from Nursery to Year 6 to positively notice one another! There was a buzz around the … Continued