This week it was time to party! To celebrate the end of term and Christmas, we enjoyed our party day with a chance to dance our socks off in the hall, enjoy some great party games like pass the parcel and the sprout and spoon race, along with some party snacks to finish. We watched the pantomime T
Reception boys and girls enjoyed a visit from our hens this morning. We are lucky enough to have a cockerel at the moment. Once he is a little older he will be rehomed, but in the meantime it is lovely for the children to see the difference between male and females of the Silkie breed. The biggest d
The Harlow Green Choir were out and about in the community today, sharing their joy of song. First stop, Eighton Lodge Care Home. Due to Covid restrictions over the last few years we have had to sing from the garden, today it was lovely to be able to perform in their community room. It was a moving
This week, Reception took part in their first ever Nativity on the stage, in front of their families. The children have been incredibly busy rehearsing for the Nativity performance for weeks, and the day finally arrived where they enjoyed performing in front of a huge audience filled with parents
The Harlow Green Choir were magnificent in their first Christmas performance, held at Angel Court residential home. The residents have been talking about this for weeks, they look forward to it every year and the day was finally here. Song, laughter and friendships, a beautiful way to celebrate toge
We may have been experiencing torrential rain but this recent deluge doesn’t put the children off getting outside. They took the opportunity to practice making lashings, whilst giving the water-sodden Forest School some respite from the trample of feet. Lashings are used to join together poles or sp
This week, reception have been busy rehersing for our Christmas play that we are looking forward to presenting to our parents and grandparents next week. On Wednesday, we enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner at lunch time. The children also had fun following their own interests in the classroom
In PSHE this week Year Two have been thinking about goals and aspirations. They started by identifying that an aspiration is a wider general achievement, whereas a goal is a smaller step towards that achievement. The children then thought carefully about what their goals are. First, they talked ab
This week we had a representative in from Tyne and Wear Fire Brigade to talk to us about fire safety at home. We learned about the risks we have by spotting hazards in the kitchen and in our bedrooms, and then also about how we can make sure our homes are safer such as turning off chargers and not o
It’s the beginning of Christmas in Reception. This week, Reception have been getting ready for Christmas with the most important job, writing a letter to Santa. We started the week by discussing all of the marvellous things Santa might bring us, then we wrote him a letter. As we did not know what
