Family event Family storytelling and crafts with Lucy Farfort – Little Theatre Gateshead, Saturday 19th November, 11 am-12 pm Join author and illustrator Lucy Farfort at Little Theatre Gateshead for a family-focused session featuring her book In Our Hands. Listen-along with Lucy and help her �
Today the Rights Respect Officers from each year group spent time visiting Feeding Families HQ in Blaydon. As part of our Harvest Festival this year, we collected a vast amount of non-perishable food items to donate to Feeding Families. Feeding Families is a charity based in North East England that
I love picture books – at any age – and this week the two picture books could both be enjoyed by any audience. Many people think picture books are only for younger children, but they provide such amazing opportunities for discussion at any age. At Harlow Green, we use them in every year group within
On Thursday and Friday the children listened to a story called ‘Sparks in the Sky’, which led to the children learning about firework safety and creating firework pictures. The children also thoroughly enjoyed making their own chocolate sparklers by dipping chocolate fingers into the icing sugar
Our Nursery children had fun in the Autumn sun during their Forest School session. Their first challenge was to collect yellow leaves, they found some really brightly coloured ones. Then they moved onto red and finally orange. Once they’d filled their bags they gathered armfuls of sticks and we head
What a Spooktacular three days we have had in Nursery! We began the celebration by listening to a story called ‘Meg and Mog’ and discussing what we already know about Halloween. Some of the children were then instantly drawn to the water area and made their own witch potions and some of the chil
This week the children have focused on oral hygiene, the job of a dentist and a dental nurse and how to keep themselves healthy. This involved the children recapping what ingredients were used to make Kipper’s birthday cake last week and identifying a range of other food and drinks and whether the
Reading for pleasure and generating a love of text is of such importance at Harlow Green. In the past, children have enjoyed ‘Reading Buddies’ during events like World Book Day, but we have decided that this is something we want to promote every half-term. Classes have been ‘buddied’ up, with older
This week we have continued our topic learning under the theme “Little Bear and Me”. We started off the week by listening to a story called ‘Kipper’s Birthday’ and making, decorating and eating birthday cakes for Kipper by following a recipe. We had lots of fun wrapping presents, playing p