This week the Easter bunny came to visit Nursery! Miss Nelson had a phone call from the Easter bunny, who told her that he was so impressed with how hard all of the Nursery children have been this term that he had hidden us some tasty treats out in our Forest school! We had lots of fun looking under
In the build-up to Easter, Year 6 have been finding out about the Jewish celebration of Passover and the Christian celebration of Pentecost. An understanding of the beliefs of others, and a recognition that children have a right to follow their own religion is a core right of all children in the UN
This morning, Year Five tackled some tricky tangrams in their Maths lesson. Tangrams are mathematical puzzles that use basic shapes to create larger, or more intricate shapes and objects. The puzzle consists of a square divided into seven pieces called Tans. Each of the pieces had a different shape.
This unit, in Design and Technology, we have been looking at different food groups, produce from Brazil and made the final product alfajores. We started the unit by getting the children to look at their own diet across the span of two days and investigate which food groups they could identify in the
Throughout January and February, Mrs Chapman and Miss McCall have held auditions for all children who wanted to take part in our Harlow Green’s Got Talent Show. Over the last two weeks, many of the pupils at Harlow Green have proudly displayed their talents. Over the course of two evenings and
This half term, some children from Year Four have attended Music Club with Mrs Galvin. The children have had lots of fun listening to, and making music, in different ways. They enjoyed playing games like ‘Pass the Cup’ using different rhythms, using the boomwhackers to make different sounds to m
In Geography, the boys and girls have been learning about rural and urban areas. They began by exploring what these terms mean and identifying rural and urban areas from photographs. They then compared maps of Harlow Green over the years and concluded that it has changed from a rural area into an
Year 4 have been studying mountains this term, and to finish off our Geography topic we took a trip to the hilliest park we could find (Wharton Park – Durham – our version of a mini-mountain). Whilst there, we took part in some orienteering and compass work all around the park, run by Durham County
Today we held our annual Harlow Green Easter egg competition. It was clear to see that we have some highly creative children by the level of detail that was put into our competition entries. The eggs were displayed around school so that each class could take a tour and have a look at them. Ou
Some of our ceramics are out of the kiln, don’t they look amazing? Some are for school and some for the Angel Court garden and our hens have a lovely new sign for their coop too. Our final session with potter Lindsey Grieves, took place at Angel Court this week. The residents and children worked t
