World Book Day

We had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day at HPS. We had staff and children alike who embraced the characters through the day – from Harry Potter, to Where’s Wally, Mary Poppins and The Midnight Gang…and everyone in between!!!

The children loved sharing their favourite authors and books with us and they were so excited to be able to take home a brand new book (especially written for World Book Day 2024).

Thank you to all our wonderful parents who supported us in creating costumes and promoted the  love of reading.

Year 3 & 4 PE

In PE,  Year 3 & 4 have been working on counter-balances, supporting each other to create different shapes and balances.

The children  have worked well with different partners and enjoyed creating these different balances.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Nursery have been having a lovely time learning the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. We have acted the story out in role play and used puppets to retell it. As well as that we had a go at making porridge. It was interesting to see how the porridge is made with oats and milk and cooked on the stove. We then all enjoyed eating it just like the three bears.

Boys tag rugby

We all had a fantastic time at the boys tag rugby competition organised by Tiverton High School. The boys were a credit to the school showing great sportsmanship and team spirit. The matches were fast paced and exciting and there were some real stand out performances. Well done to all the boys.

Year 3 & 4 Art

This half term, Year 3/4 have been studying painting. We have practised colour mixing and the ‘wet-on-wet’ technique. We also learnt how to use a viewfinder to sketch landscapes and then used still-life to sketch, colour- wash and add pen detail to our paintings.

Year 3 & 4 PSHE

In PHSE year 3/4 have been learning about hopes and dreams. We have been working in teams to create funny potatoes. We had to use all of our TRAIN values to create our models, overcome  disappointed when some of ideas were not included.

These are the contestants in the funniest potato competition.

Year 1 Rockets

Year 1 made their rockets today! They added a nose cone and fins to make the rocket fly faster and then decorated them. At breaktime, they took the rockets outside to launch them!

New Library books

We are thrilled to share our new books heading into the library this week.

They are all thanks to your generous spending at our last two book fayres – this has enabled us to spend nearly £800 on new books.

From exciting authors like Percy Jackson and Michael Morpurgo, to visited authors like MG Leonard. We have books about football, animals, adventure stories and books to support us with our emotions.

Year 2 Computing

Year 2 have been practising their word processing skills in Computing this half-term.  They have been creating newspaper reports using images and text from the nursery rhyme ‘The Gingerbread Man’.