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. This opportunity also gives an insight into the potential of becoming a jour
In Geography, the boys and girls have been learning about rural and urban areas. They began by exploring what these terms mean and identifying rural and urban areas from photographs. They then enjoyed comparing maps of Harlow Green over the years and concluded that it has changed from a rural area
Today we held our annual Harlow Green Easter egg competition. There were many highly creative competition entries which are voting extremely challenging. The eggs were displayed around school so that each class could take a tour and have a look at them. Our Rights Respect Officers had the diffic
This term our boys and girls have been developing their digital skills in computing by looking at branching databases. The children began by looking at how they can create yes or no questions focusing on a collection of different objects which were then organised into groups based on the questions t
This morning, Harlow Green Choir sang their hearts out in assembly for KS1 and KS2. Children from Year Three to Year Six sang songs from well-known films: The Greatest Show from the Greatest Showman, How Far I’ll Go from Moana, We Don’t Talk About Bruno from Encanto and Defying Gravity from the fil
On Wednesday evening, 46 brave children from Years 5 and 6 took part in the Gateshead School Sports Partnership Dance Festival at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music (The Sage) in Gateshead. This is a huge annual event in Gateshead with hundreds of children taking part across 5 events over
This term in PE, the boys and girls have been developing their volleyball skills, learning the key techniques and teamwork needed to play the game. Each week, they have built on their abilities, progressing from fundamental skills to more advanced gameplay. They began by focusing on different type
Red Nose Day is a fundraising event run by Comic Relief which aims to create a world free of poverty. The money raised is used to transform lives in the UK and around the world. As a school we believe that raising money for charity is a way of promoting a positive, caring attitude amongst our childr
This week, in maths the boys and girls have started a new unit focusing on mass and capacity. To start, they had the chance to hold and compare a range of weights so they could get a feel for difference between grams and kilograms. The children then worked together in pairs to explore the mass of cl
It’s a forest….where nothing’s as it seems! This week, the children had the amazing opportunity to enjoy an opera – The Vanishing Forest – written specifically for primary children based around the characters from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. The English Touring Opera were visiting the N
