In music today, we heard the African story of the Awongolema  tree  and we made it more interesting by adding some musical sound effects!

Having researched and designed our modes of transport to travel through London, today was the ‘making’ stage of our DT project! We had planned it well, but we found that perseverance, teamwork and collaboration were needed to aid our success! A few more finishing touches are needed before we can share the final pieces! 🎨 ✂️👍🏻😊

Well, what a treat! A very late evening for a school night but just home from watching our children and many others shine bright on the stage.

 

"Triple Fantasy" at The Manor Theatre, Sidmouth tonight was simply stunning - stunning.

 

Such talent, passion and most importantly enjoyment.  Well done to all those involved and especially our children from HPS. I was very proud of you tonight.

Remember to visit the HPS Book Fair tomorrow! Our library doors will open at 3:15 so pop along on your way to Parents' Evening or before you walk home. Everyone is welcome - we have a great range of books costing only £1, £2 or £3! 

We will be asking all parents coming to see teachers to ENTER AND EXIT via the library tomorrow. Thank you for your help with this. 

Dont forget everybody that this Friday 29th March HPS shall be participating in the national ‘wear a hat to school’ fundraising event. Please check your email for more information.

Year 2 have been learning how to code and create algorithms in Scratch Junior. They have been learning how to make their characters move and race each other whilst using their problem solving skills to debug any errors. The children have also been learning about internet safety when it comes to sharing images and playing games.

Year 3 took on Upottery in their first ever match with 13 children representing the school, many for the first time. They played there hearts out with determination and great team spirit. The 11-0 result was secondary to the enjoyment the children had.

 

The year 5/6 team played Little Town in a heard fought 4-3 defeat. It wasn’t fantastic to see so many children representing their schools with fantastic sportsmanship and upholding their school values.

 

Congratulations to all the teams that took part in these matches.

Mrs Gocher thought our castle needed a bit of updating so we called the decorators ....didn't they do an amazing job! 

And so began an amazing afternoon of building, creating and research! For our Wonderful World focus this week we looked at ‘bridges’ because they are a key part of our story, The Three Billy Goats Gruff. As with all Wonerful World sessions we began by brainstorming everything that we already knew and then made a list of questions that would help us find out more information about bridges. At the end of the afternoon we re-group and find out what we have learnt now that we did not know before! 

Year 2 have been investigating 3D shape. We worked out how many faces and edges each shape had and tried to draw them in 3D which wasn’t easy but we persevered! Ask the children what they found out.