Year 2

Last week, Brother Khadim, from Newcastle Central Mosque, visited Year Two. He spoke to the children about Islam and what it is like to be a Muslim.  Brother Khadim explained to the boys and girls how Muslims live their lives, including praying five times a day. Before prayer, Muslims perform Wudu

To share all the news and events that happen at Harlow Green Community Primary School, the Year 6 HG News team report weekly. The aim is to build confidence and a range of skills which can be applied in a variety of ways, particularly speaking and presenting formally to an audience.  This opportuni

The snow and ice certainly played its part in slowing down our planned work for the yard but could not stop it!  With hard work, determination and reliance, Bill finally completed his work creating our newest play area. With the small apparatus removed, a large soft surface area has been developed

This week we have been learning about birds of prey, their characteristics compared to our familiar garden birds and how and what they hunt. With this in mind once out in the Forest school the children tried their hand at making prey homes that were camouflaged from the sky so no hovering kestrels c

This half term, the children in Year 2 have enjoyed their gymnastics lessons in PE, building an awareness of how their bodies move.  They have been learning how to show control by stretching moving and being still.  They used strength to demonstrate a range of balances such as an arch and a dish.�

As part of our All About the Birds topic, the children have been looking at the structures of different nests. They’ve watched videos of the nest building in action and looked at some real birds nests in class. They then took this information and applied it to their own nest building. Before the chi

Sharing success is important at Harlow Green.  However, we do not give out lots of prizes as the important aspect is for recognition to be shared genuinely and personally.  This is done throughout school regularly and in many ways by all staff; this can range from conversations in corridors, to ce

In Geography, Year Two have been learning all about life in rural Uganda and have compared this to their life here in the UK. To begin, the children learned what rural and urban areas are. They sorted pictures to explain that a rural area is the countryside, whereas an urban area is a town or city.

The children have embarked on a term filled with bird focused activities, inspired by the RSPB Big School Birdwatch that we take part in every year. We have been learning how to identify birds, comparing similarities and differences in class, then using games outside to hone their observation skills

The children in Year 2 have been working hard to name and describe the properties of 3D shapes.  They worked with a partner to look at common 3D shapes and to check whether their friend could name them.  They were then challenged to count the number of faces and to recognise whether they were curv