RSPB WEEK The children in Nursery have taken an interest in birds this week. To attract more birds to our Nursery garden we have created bird feeders with lard, seed, cheerios, pipe cleaners, bread and junk modeling materials. We have enjoyed looking for birds outside using binoculars and clipboards
THE BAUBLE PROJECT! Remember – look out for your first bauble from our new Bauble Project, coming home this week. The information was sent out on School Ping on Wednesday and our Facebook page and on the website here. Here’s a glimpse of the baubles from across school – from our youngest to our olde
Year 6 have been getting into the festive spirit this week with various Christmas activities. there was great excitement when designing and making the first ever Harlow Green Christmas Baubles with a Christmas pudding and fairy lights; the children were extremely careful and meticulous in their work
In Year 3, we have been designing and creating Christmas stocking decorations for our design and technology project. The children carefully designed their stockings and identified the materials they would need to complete their designs. To join the felt to create their stockings, the boys and girls
We had a themed week of the ‘Gingerbread Man’ this week! The children enjoyed listening to different variations of the story and retelling it using props and masks around the classroom. They worked hard to use key words from the story throughout their acting. On Wednesday Reception filled the sc
What a fantastic end to the term! On Tuesday our Christmas party kick started our festivities with the boys and girls thoroughly enjoying playing traditional party games such as pass the parcel and musical statues as well as showing off their dancing skills. Party food was then enjoyed by all as the
In DT these last two weeks we’ve been exploring Viking longboats and looking at ways that you could hoist up the sail! We started by putting patterns on our sails using influences from what archaeologists have learned about Viking designs and patterns. To make life easier dealing with heavy weights,
As we look forward to our Christmas break it is important that we leave our Forest School in a good state of repair. It was also an opportunity for those that had mastered the knots we have been learning to share their knowledge with those who found it more challenging. The children made themselves
This half term, Year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed their DT project- Alarming Vehicles. For the unit, the children were asked to design and make an alarm system for a tipper truck based on three criteria. The classes were told that the alarm system needed to meet the needs of the vehicle user; use a pre
THE BAUBLE PROJECT! This year we have launched a new project across school – The Bauble Project. The aim is that each year in school, the children will use their Art or DT skills to decorate a wooden bauble engraved with the school logo. These have been handmade by volunteers at the charity The Cutt
