The health of our children is essential for their future success as adults. Without healthy lifestyles, children will not be able to take full advantage of the opportunities that will be presented to them. The pandemic has further highlighted the issue of healthy eating and the need for our bodi
As out topic this half term has focussed around South America and the Amazon Rainforest, the children in Year 5 have looked at ethical and sustainable sourcing of ingredients as part of their DT work. They were very interested in learning about the effects and impacts of using palm oil, and are eage
At Harlow Green, we love to sing and we love listening to music. Unfortunately, this year, because of the Pandemic, and to keep ourselves safe, we have been unable to sing in class. This has caused much disappointment around school! So, in order to continue our love of music and to keep our spirits
Today we said goodbye to two fantastic members of staff. Miss Coatsworth left our school today after 17 years. She has taught almost all of the children in school presently and many more who are now in secondary school. Miss Coatsworth has welcomed children and their families into Nursery and
During Computing lessons this half term, the children in Year 5 have been focussing on programming, primarily using Scratch to help them develop their coding skills. The children were given a brief: design an interactive quiz using the program. They conducted thorough research into their chosen topi
As further restrictions are lifted in England from Monday 17th May, we hope that this will be another cautiously positive step towards society returning to normal. Nevertheless, as you will be aware from recent news, any easing of restrictions must be done with great care and consideration of new
Linking to the fractions work Year 5 have been undertaking recently, this week we have begun working on decimals! We started by looking at fractions with denominators of 10 or 100, and how we can turn these into fractions, which we found really easy! After that we looked at denominators such as 25 a
This week, Year 5 were lucky enough to have their bonus PE sessions with Mr McMann (and we even managed to avoid the rain!). The children took part in a variety of fitness tasks, including jumping between hoops, swerving around cones and hopping over ladders! Exhausted doesn’t even come close! Mr Mc
As part of our Rainforests topic, the children have been focussing on the continent of South America as part of their Geography lessons. Atlases were used to establish the location of South America within the world; the children then found and named each of the countries, along with it’s capital c
