Squash and Toast week

Very well done to all our Year 6 pupils who have demonstrated a wonderful attitude to their SATs this week. They have shown true Silverhill SPIRIT during quash and toast week and we are very proud of them all. With squash and Toast to start each day and afternoons of sport, art, boards games and a trip to the park to look after our mental wellbeing.  Finally the delivery of our Leavers Hoodies certainly helped put a smile on our faces!

Well done Year 6 2019 - we’re proud of you all!

Spellathon Spending

Thank you so much to all the parents, friends and families who supported our Year 5 and 6 pupils doing their Spellathon earlier in the year. Thanks to your generosity and the pupil's hard work we have been able to replace our very tatty few dictionaries and thesauruses with a lovely new set of 15 school dictionaries and 15 primary thesauruses for each of our Year 5 and 6 classes. We love using high quality vocabulary in our work so these will really help!   

Year 5 science week

This week year 5 have been enjoying their Science Week.  The topic has been Living Things and their Habitats – specifically the life-cycles of animals and plants.  We’ve had lots of fun and in this photo you can see the children testing their seed spinners in the sunshine.

Year 4 Mountain Rescue

As part of our Extreme Survival Theme, Year 4 were extremely privileged to receive a visit from Paul from the Derby Mountain Rescue Team. Paul talked to us about the role and importance of the Mountain Rescue team and brought his extremely oversized rucksack, sharing the equipment and expertise required to fulfil their roles in rescues! 

Thank you to the families and parents of our Year 4 children who made donations towards the Mountain Rescue team. We raised just over £70 which Paul was extremely grateful to receive! 

Year 3 meet Animal Magic

On Friday 3rd May, Year 3 enjoyed meeting a variety of amazing Rainforest animals.

‘Animal Magic’ came to visit and brought along snakes, sugar gliders, scorpions and Boo the owl, amongst others. We were very brave and had the opportunity to touch or hold the animals. We also learnt a lot about their habitats and how we can help protect them. 

Definitely a sensational start to remember!

Easter winners

Just before Easter, many children yet again took part in our annual Easter egg competition. As ever, there was an eggs-tremely high standard - with some eggs-cellent themes including our very own Rock Steady and a lot of BrEGGsit ideas from many of the entries! Congratulations to all our winners...

Robins - Tyler
Wrens - 
Sparrows - Seth's L'egg' o
Swallows - Duru's traditional Easter basket
Kestrels - Dylan's Titanic
Peregrines - Tom's beaver egg
Goldfinches - Alice's Silverhill Singers
Chaffinches - Harry
Kingfishes - 
Nightingales - Ryan's spiders
Barn Owls - 
Snowy Owls - Catlin
Hawks - VIc's WW2 planes
Eagles - Isaak

Surviving in Year 4

On Tuesday 30th April, Year 4 set off on the mile and a half walk over Hackwood fields to Rural Pride Outdoor Activity Centre. The pupils really enjoyed the sensational start to our Extreme Survivors topic where they learned how to be 'Silverhill Survivors' by making our own fires and shelters. We even created cups out of clay dug up from the ground. We think we are now well equipped to survive in even the most extreme conditions. 

RSPB visit Year 1

On Monday 29th April, Year 1 had a sensational start to their theme 'Dead or Alive?' as they went on a bug hunt around the school grounds with 2 outreach members of the RSPB. We found lots of interesting creatures that were very much alive!

Easter

On Thursday 11th April, a lovely sunny morning, the whole school walked the now familiar route to All Saints Church in Mickleover village for a lovely Easter service. Well done to all the children for their lovely singing and especially to you Year 6 readers.

Happy Easter to all our friends and families. Have a lovely break.

FS2 Farm visit

On the last day of term, FS2 went to Ash End House Children's Farm near Tamworth as a Fantastic Finish to our topic 'Does Everything Grow?'
On arrival (after much excitement about travelling on a great big coach!) we played in the playground before an early lunch in the barn. Then we met the farmers who would show us around the farm. We saw lots of the animals we had been learning about: we fed the ducks and gave oats to the goats (even Simon the goat who tried to headbutt Mrs Allen!). Then we saw and held some baby chicks and collected eggs which we could take home to our families. We met cows, sheep and lambs, and even saw a new baby shire horse (who looked quite big for a baby!) 
We had a wonderful day - all of the children were real ambassadors for Silverhill and were extremely polite and well behaved. We were all exhausted and some children sensibly had a snooze on the coach on the way home.

 

 

Year 2 Fantastic Finish

What a fantastic day Year 2 had on Wednesday 3rd April at Cromford Canal! We went for a ride on a narrow boat, had a habitat walk along the canal and learned all about the different types of water birds we saw. It was the perfect finish to our topic on ‘Transport’.
Mrs Brundish

Fundraising thanks

This term, our children have continued to show their altruistic nature by organising and supporting further fundraising events. As well as the Mad Hair Day which raised a phenomenal £918, split equally between money for Mrs Minifie & The Little Princess Trust. Sofia & Rosheen (Y3) raised £84 for the Orangutan foundation and Emma, Adele & Rio (Y6) £120 for DementiaUk. Without your continued generosity none of this would have been possible, so thank you so much.

Fantastic Finishing in Year 5 and 6

On Wednesday 3rd April, thanks to our supportive PTFA, our Year 5 and 6 pupils were treated to a truely Fantastic Finish when Primevruk bought into school their vertual reality headsets and transported Year 5 to the USA and Year 6 to see some spectacular volcanoes! The children were able to see up close all the landmarks and features that they had been learning about all term! A trip to the USA or a real volcano could have been very tricky so this certainly helped take the pupils on a journey to support their #stickylearning

Year 4 Foremark DT Design Day

On Tuesday 2nd April, Twelve of our Year 4 budding design and technology pupils spent the morning at Foremark Hall, where they had the opportunity to design and create their very own 2D creations! From Pilar drills, electric saws, to CAD/CAM and laser cutters, the children were exposed to a variety of new technological resources and machinery. The day was organised by our very own Silverhill Mum, Mrs Hobson, who, along with her colleague, Mr Davis, helped to create a new and awe-inspiring experience for our children! 

Shared story time in FS2 and Year 1

Year 1 have been writing their own versions of Little Red Riding Hood - they were so amazing, that we decided to share them with the children in Foundation Stage. When reading their stories, the Sparrows and Swallows demonstrated lovely clear voices and tried their best to use expression, and the children in Robins and Wrens showed fantastic listening skills! Well done to all.

STEM science in Year 6

Year 6 welcomed STEM Ambassador Laura and University of Derby student Robyn to support their learning in fossils and evolution and adaptation science themes. The pupils learned a great deal from their visit, getting their hands on some amazing fossils and taking part in some activities outside that really got them thinking about how to survive. The children came up with some great ideas about how they would adapt and evolve and had great fun in the process.

Poo from the past!

During their science week, on Thursday 21st March, the Year 4 children spent the week learning all about ‘teeth’ and the digestive system. The children created their own 3D models of the digestive system and even had the chance to dissect and look at Norman ‘coprolites’! This was very much a ‘sticky learning’ experience! 

Street Dance

Over the last term, the Y4 children have been learning a new style of dance-street dance. We have been very lucky to have a teacher from, Baby People, to teach the children a new skill. All children have demonstrated all SPIRIT values and finished the term by putting on a fabulous show to the rest of the school! Well done Year 4! 

Rocksteady Showcase!

On Thursday 21st March, what a treat it was for pupils, staff and a lot of proud parents to be able to watch their first Silverhill Rocksteady Concert! With an eclectic and varied range of rock band names, like 'Blue Lemonade', our budding stars o their spots with guitars, keyboards, drums and some very enthusiastic front men, the concert really got the crowd clapping and cheering!Well done to all the performers - we can't wait to see what they come up with next time. 

Football update

Tuesday 19th and Wednesday 20th March

News from Mr Turner and the football teams coming soon!