Following a successful and inspiring visit from the author, Saviour Pirotta, this week’s recommendations are both books that he talked to the children about. It was interesting to hear that all of his books take six months to write and two years to be eventually published. The children showed a keen
It has been a busy few weeks at Harlow Green – with an author visit, Star Reader tests and lots of reading activities in class in English going on. It is always pleasing to look at the Reading Plus and Accelerated Reader websites to see how much effort the children have been putting into their read
This week, children from Year 1 to Year 6 were fortunate to be visited by the author Saviour Pirotta. He did workshops with each year group where he talked about some of his famous stories, where he gets his inspiration from and how he plans a narrative. He had children in stitches with his humorous
In Music this half term, the children have been learning about how to develop beat within music, listening to different beats and styles of music and then composing some basic rhythmic patterns using different pieces of equipment. We put these together with some sounds created by ourselves, like cla
Children in Year 4 spent a challenging morning in our Forest School trying all sorts of different activities. As we’ve all been taking part in the RSPB Big School Birdwatch Miss Rowe thought the children may like to try their hand at nest building, bird style. That means one-handed! The children cou
Yesterday we had three teams take part in the Gateshead School Sports Boccia competition. There were 28 teams who took part from all across Gateshead and all of our three teams did really well and gave their all in every single game. Two of our teams got to the semi-finals with Harlow Green C narr
This term in Geography we look at mountain formation and the different types of mountains you can find around the world. This ties nicely into our book (When The Mountains Roared) and also our living things focus in Science. Fault block, fold, volcanic and dome – we conducted some simple demonstra
Our Year 4 Basketball Team bounced, passed and shot to glory this week, winning their tournament and coming first. They competed against 9 other local Gateshead and Low Fell schools. The children have been attending clubs and then an early morning coaching session with Mr McMann in the run up to t
This week we have been learning about units of measurement for length and distance. Starting with kilometres, we worked on conversions to metres, then moved onto metres and centimetres and finished the week with centimetres and millimetres. This leads onto the next stage all about perimeter. We
This is the first Reading Stars post since Christmas and takes into account all of the reading the children have been doing in KS2 since January. It has been brilliant to see so many children eager to read, share books and take quizzes on their own books as well as those they have read in school. We
