Over the past two weeks, the children in Year 6 have been doing work from the book ‘Varmints’ – although they have not actually seen the book yet and have done all of their work from the book trailer below. The first lesson involved thinking about what a varmint could be and making links between oth
Reading is a key component of the Harlow Green curriculum and World Book Day is an integral part of the school calendar where we celebrate books and a love of reading. The focus of World Book Day this year was ‘Reading for Pleasure.’ All of the children were invited to come into school dressed as a
This week it has been so beautiful to have clear, expansive, blue skies, light shining down and not a breath of wind. A beginning of Spring filled with hope, after a very dark, wet winter. All Year groups are still learning about bird identification, playing games to help embed that knowledge but no
Over this half-term, Year 6 have been learning gymnastic skills – building up to creating a group routine to music. The children worked hard to develop their understanding of how to incorporate balances, jumps, rolls and movements and how to collaborate as a group. Over the weeks, they extended thes
For the last couple of weeks, the children in Year 6 have studied different artists and styles of portraits and have then incorporated this learning into a producing a final piece. The children have learnt about how Picasso used a Cubist style, that was abstract and produced as if from different ang
Rain doesn’t stop the children embracing their natural world, as you can see they have been very busy in their Forest School sessions. Making prey houses camouflaged from birds of prey. They also completed the RSPB Big School Birdwatch and were really surprised how many birds they saw despite the we
This half term, as part of the topic, ‘How Precious Life is..’ the Year 6 children have been learning about the history of coal and how important it was to the local area. Initially, the children learnt about the significance of the coal mines in the North East. They considered what coal was use
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 afternoon, the Year 6 children were lucky enough to visit The Theatre Royal to watch the brand new musical ‘Weird’. This performance of ‘Weird’ was one of the first to a general audience so it was a particular privilege to watch it. The musical is based around the story of the three witches in
This week, the robotics team took part in a VEX IQ tournament at Nissan. Our team of ten, called ‘The Green Machine’, competed against the clock to complete skills challenges, and they teamed up with other schools to complete the tasks as a team. They worked fantastically with the other schools, com
