To help recreate the WWI Christmas truce, Year 6 built their own trenches and acted out the conversation between enemy soldiers. Each soldier comes with a thought bubble, explaining their innermost thoughts and fears.

📣Calling all young writers! The 2021 Henrietta Branford Writing Competition is now open. Finish a story started by #BranfordBoaseAward winner Liz Hyder. Info, tips and prize details on the website branfordboaseaward.org.uk/2021-competiti… ✏️

#inspirational #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek #NationalHandwritingDay we asked you to share a quote from someone who inspires you. Thank you to Nayher in Mauve Class for today’s message of inspiration from #SirCaptainTomMoore

Thank you to Megan in Teal Class for today’s beautifully illustrated message of inspiration from #MartinLutherKing #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek #NationalHandwritingDay

Are you looking for your next lockdown read? Head to our #VirtualSchoolLibrary in partnership with Oak National Academy to read Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by @TheSallyGardner for FREE! Zephyr Books library.thenational.academy/meet-mr-tiger-…

Our friends at Girl Talk magazine are hosting Instagram Lives and activities for kids to enjoy at home as part of their Fun Fest! Join them for draw-alongs, yoga, slime-making and hilarious games with some famous faces! Tune in each week on instagram.com/girltalkmag/?h… Girl Talk Magazine

Inspired by Miss Sketchley, our message of the day comes from Aila in Reception class. #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek #NationalHandwritingDay

Year 3 have been feeling ‘Hot! Hot! Hot!’ ☀️Read their colourful class poems inspired by their learning around the Caribbean #GregoryCool #CarolineBinch

📚Thanks to the amazing generosity of Childrens Book Project every child from Nursery to Year 6 has enjoyed our ‘book up book fair’ and chosen a book to take home for keeps. So much excitement & so many fabulous books on offer. 🥳

This week, Year 3 have had a great time making junk model Paddington Bears! We used lots of different recycled materials to create our bears – not forgetting his marmalade and his suitcase!

Today, Year 6 had a visit from Michelle Paver - author of our class read - Wolf Brother! She told us all about her series - Chronicles of Darkness - and her new novel Skin Taker. We loved hearing about her adventures with Inuit communities and interactions with real wolves.

Lots of laughter 😂 when Sir Linkalot visited us last week! He introduced us to his fantastic world of animations using clever links 🔗to help children learn those oh so tricky words such as bicycle 🚴‍♀️! Ask your child what the link to spell ‘two’💩is &check it out on the app!

We had a lovely time celebrating National Poetry Day yesterday. The children loved performing their class poems, listening to poetry in class and reading these post-it poems that cropped up around the school!

Check out Year 5’s out-of-this-world non-chronological reports about moon buggies! They made their own moon buggies from junk modelling and researched technical vocabulary to inspire their writing!

So proud of Mackenzie, one of our Y2 pupils whose Space Shuttle 🚀adventure story has been published! Signed copies 🖊are available for purchase - please enquire at the office!

World Book Day UK 📚 Hillbrook Primary School Hillbrook English The copy Samuel has is dedicated and signed to Hillbrook School as a token of appreciation for the excellent schooling of Max and Samuel 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼📕🖊 I hope the teachers will enjoy 👍🏻

WoW! What a fantastic Creative Writing Week we had! Thank you Lucas Jet for visiting us and inspiring a brilliant week of learning and writing about the 🎪 circus. Look out for a video of our action packed week appearing on our school website soon!