This week, 44 children from Years 5 and 6 took to the stage in front of a full house at The Sage to show off the culmination of weeks of dedicated rehearsing for the annual Gateshead School Sports Partnership Dance Festival. The theme this year was Courage and all of them showed just that by simply
Today we held our annual Easter egg competition. Once again, the children astounded us with their original and creative ideas. The eggs were displayed around school so that each class could take a tour and look at them. Our Rights Respect Officers had the difficult job of choosing a winner and
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Reading is such an important part of life at Harlow Green and it has been an incredibly busy few weeks as many children in KS2 have achieved reading certificates in reading Plus for the number of words they have read. Mr Allen spent nearly a whole afternoon looking through each class’s reading rec
As part of their DT work, this week, the year 6 children enjoyed working with Chef Nick. The children worked in groups to help to prepare and cook dishes with an American theme – jambalaya and gumbo. The chef shared information about life in America, typical American foods and healthy eating. Alth
On Friday, pupils had fun whilst raising money for Comic Relief. During assembly, the children learnt that Comic Relief is a charity event that raises money to support incredible projects and organisations who are making a difference for people across the UK and around the world. At Harlow Gre
It’s not often that Year 6 get to play with cubes, so there was great excitement when the children were confronted with piles of coloured cubes this week to help them to calculate volumes. The week started with the children building shapes and counting cubes. They then developed their understanding
Over the the first half of the spring term, the Year 6 tennis club were absolutely fantastic in their attitude and application towards developing their tennis skills. As a result of the team’s focus and listening skills, they have all developed an understanding of the game, how to hit forehands an
As we head into Spring (although you might not know it by the weather) there are a lot of new release children’s books hitting the shops. Even as an adult, I love the chance to look at the latest authors and book titles and can often find myself buying “children’s” books for me to read. I am a huge
For the last two weeks in maths, Year 6 have been learning about fractions, decimals and percentages. Firstly, the children had to become familiar with percentage, decimal and fraction equivalents. Knowing these equivalences allowed the children to compare and order a them. The children then used
