This half-term, the children in Year 6 have been exploring Cubist and Realist artwork. They have studied artists including Matisse, Picasso, Gainsborough, Modigliani and Schnabel for inspiration and have seen the different approaches they have taken to producing portraits. They really enjoyed on-lin
Over the last few weeks we have been using classification keys in science to sort animals and now plants and leaves. We have used different questions to identify animals according to their features and characteristics so this week we moved onto leaves and plants. After gathering leaves from bushes
Though we try and get out into our Forest School no matter what the weather brings, even the most adventurous have to respect mother nature and keep themselves safe. So for the first part of this weeks session the children stayed out of the high winds and created some placement art in the classroom.
A quick challenge encourages the children to act more intuitively. No time to over think it. Using anything you find, transform a Christmas tree into a native British animal. Some weird and wonderful beasts appeared. The children soon realised the key to this is putting in the main characteristics o
Wild winds this afternoon but we are lucky to still have some sheltered woodland to explore. Some children tried a quick build challenge to make a house for a mouse. You can see that their builds are starting to take shape. The children are now beginning to plan ahead and select materials with more
In Maths, Year Two have been learning how to tell the time. They learned that there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour and 30 minutes in half an hour. Before reading the time on a clock, the children had to learn the difference between the minute hand and the hour hand. Learning the t
During our PE lessons this term, the boys and girls in Year 3 have been learning tennis skills. The children have practised bouncing and catching a tennis ball and worked on passing to a partner over the net. After this, the children learnt how to hold a tennis racket correctly. They developed their
Following a successful and inspiring visit from the author, Saviour Pirotta, this week’s recommendations are both books that he talked to the children about. It was interesting to hear that all of his books take six months to write and two years to be eventually published. The children showed a keen
It has been a busy few weeks at Harlow Green – with an author visit, Star Reader tests and lots of reading activities in class in English going on. It is always pleasing to look at the Reading Plus and Accelerated Reader websites to see how much effort the children have been putting into their read
This week, children from Year 1 to Year 6 were fortunate to be visited by the author Saviour Pirotta. He did workshops with each year group where he talked about some of his famous stories, where he gets his inspiration from and how he plans a narrative. He had children in stitches with his humorous
