On Friday 7th June, my class (Y2DO) took part in a whole school event run by BookTrust. We spent time in our PJs – all to raise money to make sure no child goes without a bedtime story. What fun we had sharing our favourite book. Thank you for your donations.
Happy Memories!
A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who supported our ‘Sponsored Mental Maths Marathon‘. I can now proudly confirm that we raised a total of £1,550.55! All proceeds will be spent on purchasing useful mental maths resources to support your child’s learning. Once again, thank you for your continued support.
Kind Regards,
Mrs D.Osmond – Maths Lead
Here’s our ‘Super Stars‘ who celebrated their achievements on Friday 3rd May 2019:
Well done everyone, you’re a CLASS act!
Here’s our ‘Super Stars‘ who celebrated their achievements on Friday 26th April 2019:
Well done everyone, keep up the wonderful work!
Thank you to all pupils for their FANTASTIC effort to learn their tables and division facts so well! We had a great time playing multiplication and division games to ‘warm up’ before our challenge began. This whole school event certainly helped pupils at Mill Hill improve their recall.
Here are our ‘Times Table Super Stars’: 
A HUGE ‘thank you’ for the continued support of parents. The total sum of our super sponsorship donations will follow shortly.
Kind Regards,
Mrs Osmond – Maths Lead
Tuesday 9th April
Look………. two more butterflies today!
Look…… we have one butterfly today!
What does ‘belong‘ mean? Well, during RE lessons, in Year Two, we have been finding out just that! We discovered we all belong to Mill Hill Primary School – we’re just one big, happy family! Year two pupils also drew pictures to illustrate the many different clubs they belong to, such as: Rainbows, Scouts, Sunderland Football Club, swimming clubs, dance clubs, The Youth Box Project and sooooooooooooo many more! Year Two pupils were keen to tell each other how it made them feel and why it is important to belong to a family at home, school and the community.
We linked this concept of a sense of belonging with Christianity and the Easter story and visited our local church – St Matthew’s. It was a very special occasion as baby Cole (a baby doll) was being christened. We all dressed up in our very best clothes to celebrate this very important ceremony. We pretended to be either parents, godparents or friends and family of baby Cole. Reverend David Tolhurst helped Mill Hill pupils understand the importance of this ceremony to Christians and, throughout our visit, identified symbols and practices associated with baptism.
Mill Hill children – including my class – have been very lucky to have had a free taster session how to play cricket. This is an initiative from England and Wales Cricket Board aimed at providing primary school children with a great first experience in cricket.
My class (Y2DO) loved it! We were the first to ‘have a go’ in the school and thoroughly enjoyed practicing individual skills and small team games.
Look at our models. Every child that registers will receive a backpack full of goodies including a cricket bat, ball, personalised shirt, cap and activity book all sent straight to their door. WOW! I do hope this, short but fun taster session, has inspired some of our pupils to join All Stars Cricket at a club near them.
Can you guess what we’ve got in our classroom? That’s right, caterpillars – very hungry caterpillars! They are like eating machines and are growing soooooooooo quickly that they’ve had to shed their skins so many times!
Every day, we come into the classroom and can’t wait to see any changes in the life cycle of this incredible creature! Observing them closely has been amazing. We check the temperature daily – it must not be too cold or hot – between 21-26 degrees is a perfect temperature!
After shedding their skin for one final time and making a ‘j’ shape, we realized they were ready to build a cocoon. Now we are waiting for more magic to begin! When will the butterflies hatch? Keep watching this space for more information.
