Curriculum

Over the last term, the Reception children have been on an exciting adventure through the jungle!  The Jungle Journey programme  aims to develop early fine and gross motor skills.  Some of the fine motor skill development activities they have completed include: Tearing paper clothes to add to the

In History, Year 2 have been learning all about The Great Fire of Gateshead. They ordered the key events of the fire on a timeline and lots have remembered the year it happened! The children learnt that the fire started in a factory on Gateshead quayside. The children compared of the quayside from t

This week, the Year One children have enjoyed finding out about Diwali and how it is celebrated by the Hindu community. Our learning journey started by a virtual trip to the Oriental Museum. Ross and his team taught the children all about the gods and deities. We used hand actions to retell the stor

This half term in Year 5, our Science topic involves us studying the different life cycles of mammals, amphibians and birds. So far, we have looked at the life cycle of a human and the life cycle of a frog. The children were very interested to learn about their own life cycle, and had many questions

In Year 2, we have been learning about staying safe online. One way we have learnt to stay safe is to use an avatar instead of a photo of ourselves. This keeps us safe as it means we are not identifiable as ourselves online. We also discussed that this means that we cannot identify other people onli

This week, Year 4 have used a short film as a stimulus for our English work instead of a text or book. We have loved watching The Dragon Slayer which tells the story of a battle between a warrior and a dragon and has a most unexpected ending! To begin this block of English, we made predictions about

As part of our Remembrance events this year, all the children across school have helped create poems  about the poppy and Home – learning about the way World War 2 evacuees left their homes and moved out in the countryside, unable to see their families and loved ones, some for up to 6 years.  This

This week in Year 4 we have been working on identifying different types of angles.  We have been looking at acute, obtuse and right angles and ensuring that by comparing the size to a right angle, we can identify the angle without using a protractor. We started with making our own split pin angle m

This week in Reception we have been looking at some Autumn celebrations. We have learned all about Halloween and completed lots of different Halloween activities, changed the home corner to a witches kitchen and made our own magic potions outside. We enjoyed telling our friends what we had been doin

Our morning nursery children ventured out into the Autumn sunshine to enjoy some hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows in our Forest School. They chatted and sang as they waited for their snack and showed how safely they can behave in new and unusual environment. Over their years at Harlow Green th