Since our return to school 2 weeks ago, we have engaged in many different activities. On Mondays, we have a ‘marvellous Monday’ session, where we complete science-based activities. Last week we made noise defenders out of whatever materials we had. Some of us made some brilliant defender...
During recent remote science lessons, Year 6 have been learning about The Theory of Evolution. Charles Darwin first formulated his theories in his book ‘On The Origin of Species’ based on his observations of animals.
Wow – what a start to the term it has been! We are all living in a very strange time, but we feel very lucky that this time round, we still get to teach, learn, and laugh together – albeit remotely.
A JOURNEY OF OUR LEARNING THROUGH THE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM.
In our last blog, we gave you an overview of the different things that we have been getting up to since our return to school. This month we thought that we would dive a little bit deeper into the learning that we have been completing in Science this half term. We have been learning all about Taxonom...
On Monday the 3rd of February 2020, we left the school at 9:30am to head to our destination of Bletchley Park in the hope of learning exciting, historical facts. We arrived at Milton Keynes at 10:30am and were split into 5 different groups. Then, in our groups, we went to different huts which all co...
Year 6 have been working hard this year and we’re really proud of all of the children’s accomplishments and achievements already! We’re looking forward to the term ahead and to see the amount of progress that the Year 6 children will continue to make. We wanted to take the opportun...
This year, Year 6 are completing a novel-based scheme of work during literacy lessons. Each week, children are reading a chapter of the novel Stormbreaker and then producing a piece of writing based on that chapter
This half-term, Year 6 have been preparing a fabulous production; they have been celebrating the end of SATs and the end to their time at The Hills Academy. They have been sharing it with the school and their parents and they hope that they have enjoyed it.