The children in Reception were treated to an Irish dancing taster session this week with Nicola from Jump’n Jig. Everyone found the session thoroughly enjoyable and they learnt some basic skills required for Irish dancing. During the session the children danced with the Jump’n Jig bears, used ma
In our final Geography topic of the year, year 5 have been developing their map skills. The children began by consolidating what they knew about using atlases to find locations. They practiced reading the index and using the page number then simple grid coordinates to find a location. They also lear
Today, Early Years and Key Stage One, were lucky enough to listen to a magical story performed by professional storyteller Chris Bostock. We heard the story, ‘The Tree Of Life’, which tells the story of Tiny Tortoise. He had a wonderful dream of a tree that grew every kind of different fruit. Ow
In maths this week, the children have been exploring how shapes can be combined and separated to make new shapes. We have investigated building shapes using smaller shapes and combining shapes in different ways to make pictures. The children talked about the names and the properties of the shape
In English, Year 5 have enjoyed reading Oranges in No Man’s Land in English lessons. The story tells of a young girl in Beirut who is faced with a dilemma when her Grandma becomes ill. In order to help, Ayesha must decide if she should risk her life to cross into enemy territory to obtain some life-
The children in Year 3 have been working hard with written and mental methods of addition and subtraction. They have been using place value counters and dienes equipment to add and subtract with two and three digit numbers. They have also used numberlines to count forward and count back. Th
Both the children and staff have had a fun filled week in Reception to end what has been a very busy Summer term! We have been thinking about all the memories we have made together, thought about the children who have left and joined us throughout the year and talked about how excited they are for t
This week the children in Year 3 enjoyed a morning of forest school and physical activities in the warm sunshine. Mrs Chapman and Mrs Hamilton’s class displayed impressive teamwork during an orienteering activity. They followed a map of the school grounds to find hidden clues. Each clue reve
It has come to that time where we have to say goodbye to our Year 6 children. Over the last week there has been plenty of opportunities to reminisce, share memories, laugh and reflect upon their time at Harlow Green. The children have had a picnic together, a party and have graduated from primary sc
Dear Parents/Carers, We are now at the end of term which, unfortunately, has been another complicated year, to say the least. We all know the wide-ranging difficulties that families have had to deal with which, at times, has appeared never-ending. However, within such great adversity there have
