Robins for the Christmas tree
The children made robin tree decorations from pompoms for the Hitchin Christmas tree festival.
Cherry & Chestnut – Year 6
Save the Environment Rap
During English, Cherry and Chestnut Class experimented with creating raps. We then had a Rap Battle. A group of Year 5 girls won with their rap about caring for the environment.
Christingles
As part of their R.E. topic of the Christmas story, the children made Christingles before lighting them outside in the playground.
The Best Christmas Present in the World
As their contribution to the school Christmas show, Cherry class told the story, “The Best Christmas Present in the World”.
Christmas sewing
As part of our Design and Technology work, the children designed and created Christmas Decorations for their Christmas Tree at home. Enjoy looking through their fantastic creations.
End of term rap battle
As part of literacy, the children wrote and practised performing their own raps before taking part in a good-natured “rap battle” before a panel of judges!
Festival of Languages 2019
The Festival of Languages was great fun again this year and Chestnut Class learned so much! We travelled to Mexico, Turkey, two regions of India (learning some Tamil and some Hindi) and to Slovakia. Here are some of the children’s comments: I learnt that they serve food on banana leaves in some parts of India and I … Read more
Local History Walk
Hitchin local history walk On Wednesday 10th July, Chestnut and Cherry classes went on a historical walk around a part of Hitchin. Here is some of what we learnt. Market place -The market place has undergone a lot of change through the years, but did you know its most successful use was lodging market sellers … Read more
River Oughton Trip
On Friday 5th July, Cherry and Chestnut Class went to River Oughton, which ran through Oughtonhead Common, to learn about rivers, our geography topic. We were put into groups of four, each group supervised by an adult who was responsible for driving their group to the area, and given booklets. When all the groups had … Read more
Courage Jars
Our School value this half term is Courage. We decided to create recipes to help us find courage when we need it most. Have a read through some of our recipes and see if any of the ingredients work for you.