In Reception this week, we have been enjoying lots of Halloween themed activities. We have been hammering golf tees into pumpkins, making skeleton pictures, exploring creepy potions in the water area and creating our very own play dough pumpkins. We have also enjoyed moving like spooky creatures and
There was some abnormal spookiness around Harlow Green this afternoon which required some investigation by our pupils. Thankfully, when the children went into lunch they saw that that there was simply a special mealtime organised by our school cooks. Decorations, music and some Halloween themed fo
Some of our Year 5 and 6. children enjoyed competing against other Gateshead schools in a tag rugby tournament at Winlaton Rugby Club. Harlow Green entered three teams, who each played four matches. The children were able to show off the skills they have learnt in our after school, tag rugby cl
In Year One the children have been reading a new book “Stone Girl, Bone Girl.” It’s all about the life of Mary Anning and her important scientific discovery – the excavation of the first dinosaur bones in the United Kingdom. The children had to pretend to be Mary Anning and carefully remove foss
This week has been STEM week in school and, as part of the week, some of the Year 6 children were lucky enough to go on a visit to the Nissan factory. Possibilities is a key driver of the school’s curriculum and this visit allowed the children to understand and see a future career path as an enginee
This week the pupils from Harlow Green have taken part in STEM based activities from Nursery through to Year 6. These activities were all aimed to promote Science, Teachnology, Engineeering and Maths. It has been wonderful to see creativity, perseverance, problem solving and team work shine thro
Year 4 have been applying their number knowledge to calculations using column addition. We used counters to demonstrate our calculations and where the exchanged (or carried) value came from. The children wanted to show you their work and hard they’d focused. Article 29 – we all have the right to
To round off our term of hockey coaching in P.E., 4A and 4B had a play off between classes with a tournament of 5 minute games with total won games and goal count going towards crowning the overall winning class. This time we awarded 4B with the champions title…let us see what happens in the nex
Due to the kind contributions from parents and carers, we were able to collect a variety of food for Harvest. This food has now been collected by The People’s Kitchen in Newcastle to help those in need. The school received a thank you letter from The People’s Kitchen thanking us for our kind donatio
