The history topic in Year 4 this term is ‘Olympians’ and to kick start it, we had a full day of activities courtesy of the team from Durham University – all about the Ancient Greeks. First, the children explored where the Ancient Greek empire grew and learned all about the different Greek city-state
In science lessons, Year 4 have been looking at the entertaining topic of digestion – starting with teeth and how they begin the process of chewing, munching, tearing and breaking down the food we eat. We conducted a demonstration involving toothpaste (our saliva and oesophagus) followed by bread (o
Year 4 have enjoyed an in depth and extensive study of mountains this term in Geography, both in their formation and their uses. To finish off our topic, we took a trip to the hilliest park we could find – Wharton Park in Durham – our version of a mini-mountain! After last year’s wet and windy day
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
In Art this term, we are looking at how abstract you can make an image before you can’t understand what it is. To help with this, we look at a range of artists from Deborah Roberts and her collage images to Pablo Picasso and Francoise Gilot. We have started today by sketching using just shapes – bre
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
In Science we have been looking at solids, liquids and gases and we finished off the work with an experiment to see if we can weigh a gas. Throughout the term we have looked at the particle structure of solids, liquids and gases and how this affects their properties. We also added in some work on
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
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
