This term in Geography, Year Two have been learning about rural Uganda. They have compared their life in Harlow Green to a child’s life in rural Uganda. First, the children found out what rural and urban mean. They identified that a rural place is in the countryside and does not have many people l
Across Spring Term, the children have been enjoying fencing taught in the PE lessons. To start the unit, the children were introduced to the basics of fencing. They started by learning the ‘salute’ and ‘on guard’ positions, as well as the rules for moving and the importance of defending within fenci
The boys and girls in Year 1 have been investigating how to paint with different thicknesses of brushes and how to mix paints to make secondary colours. The topic began by using artists pencils to draw a variety of different lines. They learnt that lines can be long or short, thick or thin and wri
Every Tuesday, the children in Year 4 are lucky enough to have Ukulele lessons with Mr Langford. The children have been working on chords and composition as well as learning all about the history of music. They have focused on many genres of music such as pop, folk and blues, but the crowd favourite
Year 4 have enjoyed a block of art over the last two weeks – exploring sketching and drawing with the human form, reducing it first to squares and rectangles, then adding circles to create shape and curves. We have looked at artists like Deborah Roberts, Pablo Picasso and his partner Francoise Gilot
This week, the boys and girls have been learning about the Jewish festival of Purim. They began by listening to the Story of Esther and can retell the events. They understand that Esther showed courage and bravery at a time when she would have felt worried and scared. Everyone then reflected on how
Year 4 collaborated to construct obstacles for an assault course. Forest School opportunities are designed to build on an individual’s innate motivation, positive attitudes and/or interests. Any Forest School experience follows a Risk–Benefit process managed jointly by the practitioner and learn
Now the days are getting longer, so our hens are beginning to lay. The nursery children collected the eggs today. They were very surprised at how many colours and sizes there were. Who knew you could get blue or even green eggs! They were even more surprised when the eggs were cracked, they all lo
This week, Year 6 were lucky to be visited by Chef Nick Fairley, who worked with them to create two healthy dishes from America. He also talked to them about the possibilities that are open to children who enjoy cooking and his career path to becoming a chef, an educator and to owning his own cooker
Nursery have been learning about the season of Spring this week. We started our week reading and the story “that’s my flower” which focused on a squirrel finding a flower in the woods. It was the only flower that had grown so far and he wanted it to be his. It talked us through how flowers beg