Over three days this week, the children across the whole school were spell-bound as they were visited by the illustrator and author Liz Million. Liz writes, illustrates and publishes her own books as well as illustrating for other authors and working in schools. She talked to the children about her
This week in Nursery, we had a visit from our local Lollipop person – Donna! As part of our mini topic, People Who Help Us, we have been learning all about the people who help us complete daily tasks, when we are poorly or in need of help. We had a visit from our local Lollipop person who helped us
Harlow Green Celebrates Safer Internet Day 2025 On Tuesday, 11th February, Harlow Green Primary School joined thousands of schools across the country in celebrating Safer Internet Day 2025. This year’s theme, ‘Too Good to be True’, encouraged our children to think critically about what they se
Nursery have been learning all about the meaning and importance of Valentine’s Day this week. This Valentine’s Day, the children had fun exploring the meaning of love and friendship. They talked about how it’s a day to show kindness and appreciation for the people they care about. We discussed who t
Nursery have been learning all about modes of transport this week. We have learnt that a mode of transport is the way in which people and/or goods can be moved from A to B. We enjoyed watching a Hey Duggee song, from CBeebies, all about different types of transport and recalling transport we had b
This week Nursery have been learning about the festival of Lunar New Year. We have enjoyed learning all about the lunar festival and how it is celebrated around the world. We had lots of fun taking part in different crafts and activities within the classroom such as; making red lanterns with out sci
This week Nursery have been on an adventure to Space! We have continued our topic for the Spring Term, Rhyme Time, and have been on a trip to space. We have enjoyed learning all about different planets, aliens and rockets. We looked at a variety of images of rockets and noticed that they are all mad
World Religion Day falls on the third Sunday in January each year. The day is an opportunity to promote understanding and peace between all religions. As a way of celebrating the day, the boys and girls at Harlow Green have all been learning about the Sikh faith. Throughout the school, there was a l
Today the Rights Respecting Officers from each year group met with two members of the catering team from Gateshead Council. Today the Rights Officers has the opportunity to meet with Susan and Andrea from Gateshead Council. They are part of the catering team who develop meals for all schools withi
This term, Nursery are looking at the sport of gymnastics! We have started a new unit of work for PE, called Jumping Jacks. We will be looking at lots of different ways of travelling, moving and jumping to become fantastic gymnasts. This week we started by doing some mat work which focused on di
