The children had the best day celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee on the last day of term! The children wore their homemade crowns very proudly, and we ate our homemade picnic in the sun and played games in the garden. We enjoyed singing the National Anthem which we have been learning over the past coup
Year Two have thoroughly enjoyed celebrating The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. They have learned all about her life, including her Coronation and family. The children worked together to write a fantastic postcard as if they had attended the Coronation ceremony. They included information about the Crown
We may only have a small woodland but look what we can do with it! Year 1 are building on their relationship with nature through independent play. By learning to love and respect our natural world we encourage the children to want to protect it. First a flash challenge to find any spiky things. The
Year 4 are learning about historic pottery techniques in their art lessons, therefore in their Forest School session they were encouraged to enjoy some play with clay. Building confidence in how to manipulate the material takes time, but they quickly began to master some different techniques. Their
As a Forest School, we at Harlow Green want to enable our children to enjoy the benefits of risk, but also to develop the self knowledge to work within their own safe limits. It is a balance we achieve through combining taught skills, with application through play. Continuous observation is key to e
Today Reception revisited an activity from back in September, create a house for our Forest School Squirrel. It was really interesting to see how much their building skills have improved, moving with confidence and choosing all sorts of different materials. Then some of the children went to work wit
So much to do for our busy children! A free play session to get them back into the swing of Forest School. Some incredible shelter building and beautiful, imaginative art work. Always full of joyous energy, the class worked together without a crossed word, sharing and collaborating to put their id
Pizza Parlour The children in Nursery have been interested in pizzas over the past weeks, making pizzas in the playdough area and home corner, therefore we made our own pizza shop in Nursery! The children enjoyed role-playing pizza making in the shop, adding their favourite toppings, taking orders,
This week, the children have had a great time learning about Easter. We read the Easter Story from the Usbourne children’s bible and talked about what Easter means to Christians. We tasted hot cross buns at snack time and we made chocolate nests. In our literacy books we spotted Easter eggs hi
As part of our end of term activities, all children from Year 1 to Year 6 take part in a class quiz focussed around their foundation subjects (History, Art, Geography, Science, PE etc) whether it is individually on the iPads or as a class, using the interactive quiz tool – Mentimeter. The teachers
