This week, Harlow Green will be participating in Sports Relief 2020. Today’s assembly explained to children how important each pound raised is in supporting people within the UK and across the world. A PDF of the assembly can be seen below, along as well as a video link to ‘Cameron’s story’ where
World Book Day is an important day in the school calendar as it is a day to celebrate reading and a love of books. It was amazing to see the effort that the children had all gone to (with some help from their parents I’m sure) to come into school wearing such fantastic costumes. The teachers also jo
All of the pupils in our phonic’s lessons have enjoyed the start in their new RWI groups. There has been some amazing fred talking of green words and excellent reading of alien words. What a lot of Nonsense! The children have also been excited to start reading their new book, which they are ta
In our Maths lessons, the pupils have enjoyed learning about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. The children have handled shapes, solved problems, sorted shapes according to their properties, made patterns and identified lines of symmetry. They also enjoyed building their own shapes and talking a
Each week, three children from Year 1-6 will be selected by their teachers to have a very special award: Hot Chocolate with Mr Malik. These children will have constantly been trying their best, been respectful, polite and friendly, helped others and produced work to the highest standard they can.�
In Design Technology, Year 2 have been exploring what makes a healthy lunch. We learnt all about the 5 different food groups and how a meal should contain elements of each of the groups. With this in mind, the children designed a healthy packed lunch. The children then practised their spreading, cu
This term in Year 2, we have been learning about Islam. We have focused on celebrations within the religion and Muslim marriages. The children enjoyed making links between their previous RE topic of Christianity, where we also looked at marriages. On Tuesday, we visited Newcastle Central Mosque to h
In Science this term, Year 2 have been learning all about how animals (including humans) change as they grow. We have learned the names of adult animals and their young, how different animals have different life cycles and how to identify whether an animal is a mammal, amphibian, bird or reptile. Th
The children in Year 2 have enjoyed reading and writing instructions. They read instructions about how to build a snowman and then tried to draw their own. They also read the book ‘Silly Billy’ by Anthony Browne about a boy who uses worry dolls to help him get to sleep. The children made their
Last week Year 2 took on the big physical challenge of the obstacle course, the aim not just to have fun and get fit, but to see if girls and boys approached the activity differently. The outcome being that the size of the child appeared to be the only ‘hurdle’. This week a change of pace with a whi
