Today it was announced that schools across the country will close on Friday 20th March until further notice. It was also announced that schools will still be open for the children of key workers and some vulnerable pupils. As of yet, schools do not have any definitive detail about which families thi
From Monday 16th March, Government advice has changed once more: What does this mean for families and attendance at school? As a result of the updated advice, parents/carers should follow the national message below: Stay at home for 7 days if you have either: a high temperature (37.8 degrees or high
We understand that there will be children with virus symptoms in the coming weeks which may require them to be in isolation and, therefore, absent for two weeks (under new advice). We also know that parents/carers are conscious of the time being missed from school, especially when the children’s o
Over the course of this week, Year 5 have taken part in various activities linking to Sports Relief. The children enjoyed skipping with Skipping Coach Liz, who taught them many skills and tricks to perform with a skipping rope. All children had good fun playing a skipping game that involved running
The children have enjoyed lots of sports this week, ready to celebrate Sports Relief. On Wednesday afternoon, Liz from Skipping Schools came to teach the whole school some skipping skills. In Reception, we enjoyed playing lots of different games with the ropes. First of all, we jumped, hopped and
The children in Reception have been very lucky and have been chosen to visit Southernwood Residential Home with Little Movers. The children will go in small groups for series of visits to the home to take part in some inter generational classes. This will take place over the next few weeks. We went
This morning, the Harlow Green choir visited the Sage Gateshead to perform in the Spring Sing 2020. All of the songs were chosen to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the start of the Great North Run. The show had a sporting theme and was focused around trying your best. The children sang beautif
This week, Harlow Green will be participating in Sports Relief 2020. Today’s assembly explained to children how important each pound raised is in supporting people within the UK and across the world. A PDF of the assembly can be seen below, along as well as a video link to ‘Cameron’s story’ where
Today, Year 5 enjoyed a visit to Sunderland Winter Gardens to learn more about our topic of ‘Life in the Rainforest’. We took part in a fantastic workshop called ‘Animal Adventures’, and followed a trail around the Winter Gardens. We looked around the exhibition and found lots of animals tha
Year 3 had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day! To start, they explored a story called The Lost Happy Endings. The children were inspired by the illustrations and created some wonderful art around the setting of the story. The boys and girls wrote their own endings and sculpted clay models of
