We got anti-bullying week 2022 off to a great start today with hundreds of odd socks around school! Anti-bullying Week 2022 is coordinated in England and Wales by the Anti-Bullying Alliance. It takes place between Monday 14th and Friday 18th November and this years theme is Reach Out. On Monday 14th
This week, we have continued to look at forces in Science. We have explored how different mechanisms can be used to help reduce the effort needed to move a load. On Monday, the children started off by looking at levers. We identify the different parts of a lever – beam, fulcrum and load. We then w
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
This week in ICT, the children have been creating vector drawing using computer software. Vector drawings are drawings made on a computer using lines and shapes. We looked at some examples of vector drawings as a class and then went into the computer suite to begin designing our own vector drawing o
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
After the half-term holiday, it has been really pleasing to see the children returning to school talking about books they have read. The teachers were really pleased to see that many of the children continued to access Reading Plus and many were instantly ready to do their Accelerated Reader quiz, w
In RE, we have been exploring Christianity. We have looked at the ten commandments and ranked them from what we thought was the most important to least important. We then went on to learning about the ‘Sermon on the Mount’. We explored the story and looked at the eight beatitudes, learning how t
This week the children in Key Stage 1 and 2 enjoyed our Halloween disco. Mrs Taylor, members of our PTA and school staff helped out with the Halloween celebration. The children’s costumes were ‘spooktacular’ so much so that it was difficult to make out who was under the masks and face paint. W
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
