This week’s Reading Corner includes two books from some of the children’s favourite authors: David Walliams and Julia Donaldson. In school, the children have the opportunity to read some of the well-known stories by both of these popular authors and I am sure that these books will be high on the Chr
The last fortnight, has seen an excellent effort by the children in their reading in Reading Plus and Accelerated Reader. It is clear that the competition for ‘Word Read’ certificates is clearly inspiring some as we have 10 more 50,000 word readers. Even more impressively, we have our first Reading
Today, our to local Police Community Support Officers visited school and spoke to the children from Years 1 – 6 about road safety, winter hazards and the dark and the role of the Emergency Services. It is great to be welcoming some visitors back in to school and be able to build the relations with t
The children in year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed the final week of their science topic on forces. They have been learning about how mechanisms such as levers, gears and pulleys can be used to reduce the amount of force needed to move something. Levers are made up of a rigid beam and a fulcrum which ca
This week, Year Two have been learning about 2D shapes. The children learned that 2D means two-dimensional so these shapes are flat. When labelling the shapes, the children found out that some shapes can have more than one name. For example, squares and rectangles can also be called quadrilaterals b
This week we finally completed our design and technology projects. Firstly the children coloured in a volcano and a pterodactyl outline. They were encouraged to add detail such as lava and eyes on the dinosaur. Next they had to carefully cut each shape out – it was really difficult cutting r
Year 6 have been learning about the Second World War in their French lessons as well as in English and Topic. They surprised themselves by being able to decode French words on the PowerPoint fairly easily; using their prior knowledge of the topic, looking at the pictures and by seeing how familiar
Over the last two weeks, we have been learning about Christianity in Year 3. The boys and girls learnt about John the Baptist and were able to retell his story using visual prompts. As John the Baptist told people to repent their sins, the children wrote about something they wanted to say sorry for.
Come and play the Forest School way. Many of our Reception children have already learned so much about enjoying this wilder environment safely during their years in our nursery. Now they can hone their skills and get creative. Those children then support children who are new to Harlow Green and help
Year 6 showed off their rope work skills this week. After being taught a timber hitch for anchoring, the children then translated that knowledge into the trees, creating their own rope lines. Securing with simple half hitches to give tension they had to work together to ensure tight and safe lines.
