Year 2 enjoyed the winter sun out in our Forest School. This time of year we are focusing on the wild birds that live around our school. Linking to the RSPB Big School Birdwatch, which will take place over the nest few weeks, the children created their own birds nests. Using dried grass, twigs and f
This week, Year Two started to read their new book in English – ‘Into the Woods’ written by Anthony Browne. For their first lesson, the children focused on the front cover. They discussed what they could see and thought about where the boy might be going. The boys and girls had some fantastic idea
This week, it has been lovely to see the enthusiasm with which children have shared books that they received for Christmas, or that they read over the holidays. All of the children from across the school were asked to share the book either with their friends, or with the whole class and talk a littl
THE BAUBLE PROJECT! Remember – look out for your first bauble from our new Bauble Project, coming home this week. The information was sent out on School Ping on Wednesday and our Facebook page and on the website here. Here’s a glimpse of the baubles from across school – from our youngest to our olde
The end of term is upon us and I know that everyone is looking forward to the festivities. Unfortunately, once again, this will be within a challenging context of Covid-19 where we must be careful in how we manage ourselves in order to reduce the risk of catching and transmitting the virus. Howe
This year, we decided to team up with Metro Radio. We joined their Mission Christmas appeal to support local disadvantaged families and help to ensure that all children in the North East wake up to a present this Christmas. The children have really enjoyed watching the pile of presents grow and have
Inter faith week was celebrated in November this year, with the aim of increasing awareness of different and distinct faith communities and increasing understanding between people of religious and non-religious belief. At Harlow Green, the week was kicked off with an assembly about the key beliefs o
THE BAUBLE PROJECT! This year we have launched a new project across school – The Bauble Project. The aim is that each year in school, the children will use their Art or DT skills to decorate a wooden bauble engraved with the school logo. These have been handmade by volunteers at the charity The Cutt
Year Two have had a fantastic day out at the Discovery Museum. They learnt all about The Great Fire of Gateshead and looked at some objects that would be found in a Victorian Home. For their task, they had to match the object to the correct label. However, one of the objects on each table didn’t hav
