Reading is an essential part of Harlow Green’s curriculum and fostering a life-long love of reading within the children is of fundamental importance. Sometimes, we can get bogged down as readers into reading books by the same author and we forget to look at new books that are available. In ‘Reading
In English, Year 6 have been reading the book ‘Friend or Foe’ by Michael Morpurgo. They have explored the characters and looked at the life of evacuees – exploring how they would feel and how life would be different in the countryside compared to the city. The children have been taking part in a new
This term, Year 5 are enjoying learning how to introduce and describe their pets in French. During the unit, the children have had the opportunity to speak, listen to, read and write words and phrases that enable them to say what pets they have or don’t have and their pet’s name. This block builds o
Families The children in Nursery this week have enjoyed talking about themselves, their families and what their house looks like. We linked talking about families and houses to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Together we have discussed size, using the vocabulary of ‘smaller, smaller,
Over the last two weeks, in Year 4 we have been learning about sound and how we hear. We started by looking at musical instruments and how we could feel them vibrate as we played, banged and hit them. We looked at how soundwaves travel and how they look different depending on the volume and pit
This week, Year Two have been working hard to compare, order and partition two-digit numbers. They used the comparison symbols (< > =) to decide whether a number was greater than, less than or equal to another number. The children learned a trick to help them with this – the crocodile eats the
Over the last two weeks, we have been studying the history part of our topic thinking about World War Two. Before we began our learning about World War Two, we looked at the other history topics that have been studied in Key Stage 2. Then, the children placed these periods on a timeline; they enjoye
This week in Reception we began our topic for the Autumn term – Marvellous Me. The children have been learning about self-portraits and exploring the concept that everyone is different and unique. They have used different forms of media to draw their own self-portraits using powder paint and oil pas
Year One started their history topic this week. The children learnt that we learn about dinosaurs by investigating fossils. They discovered that fossils are made over millions of years when soil and rock is compacted onto animal skeletons. They even found out about a special kind of fossil called an
During Art lessons this week in Year 5, we have been looking at construction and deconstruction, and how these can be used to create artwork. We discussed the different ways of ‘deconstructing’ something, including cutting, ripping, scratching and more! Then we got to have a go deconstructing differ
