Year 1

Please enjoy the latest news report from Harlow Green.

This week there has been a buzz of excitement in school as the author and actor ‘Chris Connaughton’ has visited all of the children. It is not often that a visitor can work from Nursery all the way to Year 6 and leave all of the children mesmerised – but Chris has managed to do this with his stories

Today, we raised money for Comic Relief.  All of the children came to school dressed in their own clothes with a Comic Relief theme.  During the day, the children found out about how the money raised will people in need.  Later, the boys and girls enjoyed telling jokes to their classmates and vo

The boys and girls in Year 1 have been investigating how to paint with different thicknesses of brushes and how to mix paints to make secondary colours. The topic began by using artists pencils to draw a variety of different lines.  They learnt that lines can be long or short, thick or thin and wri

Year 4 collaborated to construct obstacles for an assault course. Forest School opportunities are designed to build on an individual’s innate motivation, positive attitudes and/or interests. Any Forest School experience follows a Risk–Benefit process managed jointly by the practitioner and learn

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World Book Day is always full of excitement: children all dressed up; staff in strange costumes; and lots of fun activities planned throughout the day. The day is designed to celebrate the importance of books and foster a love of reading. This year, the whole school have worked from a twisted fairy

The week, Year One wanted to investigate which material would be the strongest material to build a house for The Three Little Pigs. Firstly, everyone made a prediction of which would be the strongest. Some children thought straw, others thought sticks and others thought bricks. Then, the children us

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Cup nests are perhaps the most recognisable types of birds nests and Year 1 created some beautiful ones this afternoon in their Forest School session. They tried to really focus in on the weaving aspect of their builds, taking care to wind and loop each blade of grass, each stick. They wound around