Inter faith week was celebrated in November this year, with the aim of increasing awareness of different and distinct faith communities and increasing understanding between people of religious and non-religious belief. At Harlow Green, the week was kicked off with an assembly about the key beliefs o
Over the last couple of weeks, the children in Year 6 have been studying an animation titled ‘The Piano.’ This film has no words and is a series of flashbacks in the pianist’s life – seen whilst he plays a mournful tune. The children have tried to imagine themselves in the role of the old man playin
4A had a great time today with our party, then pantomime (Cinderella) and afternoon of art and craft making our Christmas cards. We went old school with the hokey cokey and pass the parcel, plus a bit of bauble and spoon race and balloon games, thrown in with a bit of dancing and jumping around, and
THE BAUBLE PROJECT! This year we have launched a new project across school – The Bauble Project. The aim is that each year in school, the children will use their Art or DT skills to decorate a wooden bauble engraved with the school logo. These have been handmade by volunteers at the charity The Cutt
In History this half term, the Year 5 children have been focussing on the Anglo Saxons. They have discovered where they came from, why they came here and what they did after they arrived! After studying day to day life as an Anglo Saxon, the children were eager to discover more about the most import
For the last two weeks of term in DT we are looking at pulleys and linking this to our topic on Vikings, by seeing if we can create a pulley system to raise a sail. This week we have been researching Viking long boats and pulleys and sail designs. Next week we will attempt to create a method of
Year Two have had a fantastic day out at the Discovery Museum. They learnt all about The Great Fire of Gateshead and looked at some objects that would be found in a Victorian Home. For their task, they had to match the object to the correct label. However, one of the objects on each table didn’t hav
It is nearly Christmas and this week has seen the highly anticipated Year One Christmas party. Everyone looked amazing dressed up in their smartest outfits. The day kicked off with a fashion show, with the opportunity for everyone (including the teachers) to shimmy and strut their stuff down the
We have had a fantastic festive week in Reception! We kicked off our festivities with our school Christmas lunch on Tuesday. We tried all the different parts of the dinner even if we weren’t sure we would like it. The children thought it was delicious! They loved pulling crackers with their friends
As people may remember, we shared the sad news that Mrs Vi Symons, ex Head Teacher of Harlow Green Infant School, had passed away this year. In commemoration of the impact Mrs Symons had on our school community, governors agreed to make small, yet significant, change to the school. On Friday 10th
