This week in Science, the children have been learning about the main muscles in their bodies. The children first learnt that muscles help our bodies to move, as they are attached to our bones by tendons. The boys and girls learnt the scientific names for the muscles and used the scientific names to
Today, the Rights Respecting Officers visited Ravensworth Terrace to gain ideas about outdoor playtime. Thirteen of our Rights Respecting Officers had the opportunity to visit Ravensworth Terrace to see how playtimes are ran and the provision there is to access at this time. We thoroughly enjoyed se
This week, the children were very excited to find out that they would be cooking. In DT, we began with discussions about food in the Stone Age. The boys and girls can explain that early humans were hunter-gatherers who had a diet consisting of meat, fruit, nuts and berries and how this changed with
This is the first News Report from HG NEWS which will be a new, weekly feature allowing Year 6 to experience being a news presenter. The aim is to share some of the events that have occurred over the week in a different way that our community can access.
In this horrible, rainy weather there’s not a lot to do outside, so it’s the perfect time for grabbing a book and reading. The start of the year always sees some brilliant new book releases and WHSmith and Waterstones have some excellent displays of picture and chapter books that are well worth a lo
As part of Harlow Green’s commitment to fostering a love of books and reading for pleasure, classes are ‘buddied’ up and, once a half-term, the older children get a change to read with younger children in school. It is an event that all children look forward to – allowing the KS2 children to be the
Safer Internet Day is held every February all around the world. Safer Internet Day gives us a chance to think about all of the wonderful things technology can help us with, but it is also an opportunity to think about ways we can keep safe online and what to do if we see something we are worried abo
In Art this term, the children explored the vast array of colours they are able to make from the 3 primary colours and learned about secondary and tertiary colours in order to create their own colour wheels. The boys and girls also identified how adding white and black can change the tint of a colou
This week, the boys and girls have been learning how to multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number. At first, they used counters and a place value chart to support their understanding. We then looked at how we can use the counters to multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number with exchange. Th
In History, Year 3 have been learning about life through the ages. First, they learned about the Stone Age and investigated artefacts from this time. The children became archaeologists and using images, discussed what the artefacts would have been used for and what they were made out of. We also had
