This week Year One have been practising their artistic talents. Closely linked to our theme, “We’re all going on a summer holiday”, the pupils have been observing, drawing and sculpting shells. Firstly, we investigated patterns on a variety of shells and sketched them using pencils. The childr
Following our exciting trip to Hall Hill Farm last week, the children in Reception have continued exploring the topic of farms in the classroom. We’ve been learning the names of different baby animals and talking about where they live on the farm. In literacy, we have enjoyed reading What the Lady
To keep cool this week we have been making milky ice lollies! The weather has been beautiful this week so we decided to make ice lollies as part of our Summer themed mini topic. We put our cutting skills to the test once more and carefully sliced up some strawberries and bananas. We then used forks
On Friday 13th June, Nursery and the Harlow Green Toddler Group took part in ‘The Barnardo’s Big Toddle’. The Barnardo’s Big Toddle has become some what of a tradition for our Harlow Green Community. We have been taking part for 5 years now, and we always manage to raise a lots of mon
As always, reading in Harlow Green is at the forefront of the curriculum. Whether this is class texts in English, reading for pleasure books at the end of the day, or children’s individual readers, there is a great emphasis on the children reading and engaging with a range of texts. With the money
This week, our pupils have been learning all about collaboration – what it means, why it’s important, and how to do it effectively. Through a series of fun and thoughtful activities, the children explored the different ways we can work together to achieve a shared goal. One of the key challenges i
This week, Reception have been learning about farm animals. To end our topic, we took a trip to Hall Hill Farm to visit the animals. First, we took a ride around the farm on the tractor, then we fed the sheep and llamas and said hello to some highland cows, donkeys and wallabies. After lunch, we w
In History, the children have been learning about castles. They began by learning about the features of a castle and located some of the castles around the UK, including Alnwick Castle which they have been lucky enough to visit this week. The boys and girls were all very keen to see which of the f
This week, the children in Year 1 have been learning how to read and partition numbers up to 100. At the beginning of the week, the children showed a lot of resilience when counting forwards and backwards within 100, filling in missing numbers on number tracks. The children then learned how to count
Over the summer term, Year Six have been studying volcanoes as part of their Geography topic. In the first lesson, the children learned about why volcanoes erupt. It was very interesting to learn about the theory of ‘plate tectonics’ which means the plates which make up the Earth (a bit like a j
