During our PE lessons this term, the boys and girls in Year 3 have been learning tennis skills. The children have practised bouncing and catching a tennis ball and worked on passing to a partner over the net. After this, the children learnt how to hold a tennis racket correctly. They developed their
Following a successful and inspiring visit from the author, Saviour Pirotta, this week’s recommendations are both books that he talked to the children about. It was interesting to hear that all of his books take six months to write and two years to be eventually published. The children showed a keen
It has been a busy few weeks at Harlow Green – with an author visit, Star Reader tests and lots of reading activities in class in English going on. It is always pleasing to look at the Reading Plus and Accelerated Reader websites to see how much effort the children have been putting into their read
This week, children from Year 1 to Year 6 were fortunate to be visited by the author Saviour Pirotta. He did workshops with each year group where he talked about some of his famous stories, where he gets his inspiration from and how he plans a narrative. He had children in stitches with his humorous
This week in Reception, it has been all things Winter! The children have been reading the story ‘Lost and Found’ as part of our Literacy and Topic learning. This story tells of a boy who finds a penguin at his front door and he takes the penguin on a journey back to the South Pole as he thinks h
In Music this half term, the children have been learning about how to develop beat within music, listening to different beats and styles of music and then composing some basic rhythmic patterns using different pieces of equipment. We put these together with some sounds created by ourselves, like cla
Year 3 took to the woods to get creative, on a glorious day with no wind. There was small construction going on in the willow room. Playing in and building dens and some nest building too. While all that busy stuff was going on some other children started to create a placement art gallery on the hil
Children in Year 4 spent a challenging morning in our Forest School trying all sorts of different activities. As we’ve all been taking part in the RSPB Big School Birdwatch Miss Rowe thought the children may like to try their hand at nest building, bird style. That means one-handed! The children cou
In Design and Technology, Year Two have been making healthy packed lunches. As part of their research, the children learned about Jethro Tull and his incredible invention – the seed drill. Tull began farming in 1699 when seeds were planted by hand. He found this very frustrating, so he decided to ma
The teachers have been amazed this week by the children’s fantastic weaving skills. The week started by researching woven tablemats as the final product will be a woven animal placemat. Then we went outside and had a go at weaving strips of fabric along the MUGA fence. They learnt to go in and
