Red Hill Primary School

In February 2018, the outdoor area where the shed currently is, is being redeveloped to ensure your children get the most from their outdoor learning. Over a period of four weeks, there will be a water pump with movable channels installed, alongside a troll bridge, cave, viewing platform and slide. These new features will continue to allow children to use the outdoor environment to explore and learn.

At the other end of the outdoor area, we will be creating a nature zone with a new, bigger mud kitchen, bug hotel, wildlife viewing platform and living willow tunnel. This will create another fantastic learning environment for our children

The children in 2D made small teepee circus tents in teams as part of their IPC topic 'The Circus in Coming to Town'.  The children also thought about their IPC goals and showed great co-operation and resilence.

On Tuesday, Year 3 had a fantastic day with the Bug Man. We got to hold insects and reptiles from the rain forest. We really enjoyed this! Although it was a little scary, we faced our fears and got to hold a tarantula called Molly, an Australian stick insect, a rat snake and a chameleon. 

​Here is the Gardening Clubs first harvest - Rhubarb! This week we have planted out tomatoes, potatoes, onions, radish, squash and peas. We are eagerly awaiting the strawberries to ripen in June. 

Year 5 Raising Standards in Writing

In year five for the last two weeks we have enjoyed watching chickens hatch and begin to grow.  We used this to inspire some non-chronological report writing.  We researched the life cycle of a chicken in science and then practised using bullet points to make notes from a variety of sources such as the internet and books.  In our Big Write session last Friday we wrote a report using headings, sub headings, bullet points, formal and technical language.  We even created our own footnotes to explain some of the tricky language.  Today we say goodbye to the chicks as they leave to live a long and happy life on a local farm.

Well done to everyone in year 3 & 4 who competed in the Crystal Palace Cross Country competition. We had some brilliant team scores and individual scores! The stand out team performance being the year 4 boys team who finished 2nd out of 33 schools. Check the Crystal Palace Cross website to see all of your results

Please see some great photos from our World Book Day 2018

Year 5 recently attended the table tennis world cup being held at the Copper Box Arena in Stratford. They were lucky enough to see the men's fixtures taking place and on display was some of the world's best players in the sport. The children said they enjoyed the day and learnt so much about the rules!

The girl’s football team took part in the Primary Stars football tournament on Wednesday, despite the weather the girls showed resilience and played well securing a place in the quarter finals where unfortunately they lost to Southborough Primary School.

Miss Benbow took a group of pupils to play tag rugby at the Bromley schools competition. The students played well as they became familiar with the tactics and rules of the game. They have only had 2 training sessions, so this was their first experience in a competition. They scored some brilliant tries, with Millie showing great speed and agility to top the try scoring. Defensively, the teams understanding improved and we saw some outstanding tackles (tagging) by Thomas and Jack. All the students showed an excellent attitude, teamwork and work ethic and were a credit to the school. Overall, they finished 12th out of 25 teams in the competition, which is an outstanding achievment, after only 2 training sessions.

2M have been super lucky to have gymnastics sessions with our fantastic coach Sam! This week we were working on our bridges and then used our skills to create, and perform, a floor routine.

6C this week have been looking at narrative poems, along with their work on The Blitz and Evacuation.  We created our own narrative poems to show the journey of an evacuee or of a night during The Blitz in London.

As part of our work on The Great Fire of London, 2D have been acting out how King Charles I came to the rescue by suggesting that they use dynamite to blow up houses to make fire breaks.  The children took the parts of King Charles I, his soldiers and houses.  We then followed this up by writing newspaper reports in the September 1666 edition of The London Gazette.

We are pleased to announce that we have received the results of the Give it Some Welly competition. The Key Stage 2 entry from Red Hill received Highly Commended and the school will receive £50 in prize money! Congratulations to Thomas Johnson in class 6C, for his fantastic effort.

It has been a very busy term in Computing and the children have worked extremely hard on learning new skills.  The Reception classes and Year 1's have explored how to log on to the computer, learning the keys on the keyboard and controlling the mouse by creating various portraits and illustrations.