Harvest Festival This year, as part of our Harvest celebrations, we have learnt about the meaning behind harvest through our class assembly times. We found out the importance of gathering crops from the fields. This year we raised donations to send to The People’s Kitchen, where we collected non-per
The Gardening Club have been busy in our pond area, laying new stones in for the path, cutting back some of the trees and beginning the task of revitalising the ponds. When Miss Rowe and Bob first put our ponds in, around 10 years ago we had an abundance of frogs and toads in all three ponds. We wou
This half term, Year Six have been looking at 3D modelling during computing lessons. The children have been using the Tinkercad programme to develop editing skills and manipulate shapes on screen. Firstly, they examined the similarities and differences between working digitally with 2D and 3D grap
We have had a great week learning all about Harvest and enjoying the story Oliver’s Vegetables. We went on autumn walks, collecting leaves and natural materials to make lovely autumn pictures. At snack time, we tasted a variety of fruits and vegetables, and even used some to create paintings. We v
This week, the children have been learning how to find number bonds to 10. They all used double sided counters to help them work systematically. The children started with 10 red counters on a tens frame and wrote the first calculation: 0 + 10 = 10. After each calculation, they turned over one counte
Reading Plus is a programme used in Year 4 – Year 6 to develop the reading fluency and comprehension of the children. Since September, the children have been using the programme in school and also for homework. This week, the first children in school reached the landmark of 50,000 words. This is a h
This week Nursery have been working on their fine motor skills and learning how to correctly use scissors. We have been working on scissor safety and have learnt that we must never leave scissors laid around the classroom, we cannot run when scissors are in our hand and we have to hold the blades in
This week in Nursery we have been learning about the changing season, Autumn! we all enjoyed going on a walk around our nursery grounds. We noticed that the leaves on the trees are starting to change colour. We could see red, yellow, orange, and brown leaves on the trees and on the ground! We found
Sharing success is important at Harlow Green. However, we do not give out lots of prizes as the important aspect is for recognition to be shared genuinely and personally. This is done throughout school regularly and in many ways by all staff; this can range from conversations in corridors, to ce
This week in their Forest School sessions the children have really run with the idea of Fairy Tales after making bridges for Billy Goats last week. In music they have been learning a blues version of the story of The Three Little Pigs, so it was lovely to hear them singing whilst they worked. They b
