Year 4 had an amazing day with Maker {Futures} on Tuesday. The pupils had so much fun making, inventing, exploring and problem solving - it was an experience we will remember for a long time. Some of our favourite activities were creating different circuits and developing our coding skills with robots. 

Dear Parents/Carers

To celebrate 25 years of World Book Day we are planning a week of fun.

The focus of the week is to develop reading for pleasure.

The theme this year is "Twisted Fairy Tales".  Each day there will be a fun activity for children to enjoy.  As well as launching a class reading journal, which will be an ongoing project.

Many thanks

Dear Parents/Carers

We will be holding our video appointment parents evening on Tuesday 15th March and Wednesday 16th March via school cloud.  School Cloud allows you to choose your own appointment times with your childs class teacher and you will receive an email confirming your appointments.

The system will open for parents to make appointments from Friday 25th February at 4pm - Wednesday 9th March 4pm.

We also have a dedicated School Cloud page on our website, where there is a lot of detailed and helpful information on the page to help guide you in accessing and using this new system. Please click here to access the School Cloud Page.

Nursery - Y6  will hold virtual parent evening meetings on Tuesday 15th & Wednesday 16th March 3.30 - 6pm

Parents have been emailed a letter detailing all the information needed to make appointments, along with parents unique login code, that you will need to use to make your appointment. Parents can click here to access the High Hazels School Cloud Account

Please see the list below of the browser versions you will need to access for the device you will use when logging onto school cloud for your video parents evening appointment:-

IOS (Iphone & Ipad) – use safari

Android –  use Chrome or Firefox

Windows –  use Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge

MacOS –  use Safari, Chrome

We have also created a useful guide for parents to refer to which can be accessed here, and a useful video can be viewed here

If you have any questions or queries please contact the main school office on 0114 2442189 or email enquiries@highhazelsacademy.org.uk. 

Dear Parents/Carers

School will be selling fruit cups to raise money for the Wildlife Trust.

Fruit cups will be availble to all junior school children on Thursday 3rd March and all infant school children on Friday 4th March, the cost is £1 per cup.

If your child would like to but one it will need to be preordered with the class teacher before Wednesday 2nd March.

Many thanks for your continued support.

Dear Parents/Carers

Please see link below for our new Spring menu which will run from February - March 2022.

New Spring 2 Menu

Many thanks

On the 22.2.22 Y1, Y4 and Y5 will be having an exciting visit from the Maker {Move} Van as part of the Maker Futures Project. The children will each participate in a workshop where they will design and make objects and engage in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) challenges. The focus is on making without a specific goal in mind. The children will get the opportunity to create, tinker, test and modify which will develop the skills they need to solve complex problems. We can't wait! 

The first part of our Spring Term has shown the children building their key skills of independence, resilience, adaptability, confidence and perseverance - the Year 4 team could not be prouder.

During our Writing lessons, the children participated in many creative lessons. They became children story tellers, creating their own Stinky Men stories based on the fairy tale ‘The Gingerbread man.’ The children have explored many Arabian legend stories, based on our class book for this term: ‘A Hundred and One Arabian nights,’ writing their final piece by adapting the classic, Aladdin.

In Reading, we have looked at many stories from ‘A Hundred and One Arabian nights’ and focused on our skills of inference and sequencing. The children have really enjoyed this topic and it gets them excited for their upcoming History Unit, Early Islamic Civilisation.

In maths, children began to develop their knowledge of timetables and division facts, a unit which has been continued outside of school as they have also been practicing their timetables and completing in battles on TTRS between classes. Please encourage your child to log on to Times Tables Rockstars everyday to practice this key skill.

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Year 4 have done some amazing writing this half term. Here are some examples our short stories we wrote based on The Stinky Cheese Man. First, we learnt the original story using actions to help us remember it. We then innovated it and created our own disgustingly, smelly characters. We had a lot of fun writing these silly stories. 

We love to problem solve in Y4. We have been using our knowledge of factor pairs to explore the following problem:

Mr Sexton has 36 children in his PE class. He wants to put them in equal groups, how many children could he have in each group?

To help use solve this problem, we worked systematically and used counters to help us investigate.