Today, has been a celebration of books across Harlow Green as children and staff alike have dressed as their favourite characters to celebrate the 25th World Book Day. World Book Days’ mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book
Today, marks the 25th World Book Day and children, and staff, have had great fun dressing up as their favourite book characters. The teachers in each class have had an almost impossible job deciding on just one winning costume – from the most creative, to the most interesting, to ones linked to a bo
In Reception this week, we enjoyed blasting off to space. We read ‘ The Way Back Home’ by Oliver Jeffers which inspired us to learn more about space. For homework, the children learnt a space fact and then enjoyed sharing them at group time. We found out about stars and made our own constellat
Doctors and Vets The children in Nursery have loved learning about the importance of looking after people and animals, especially when they are unwell. Over the past few weeks, we have had a class VETS and doctors to support their interests and understanding. We read the story Little Red Riding Ho
Kite Making The children have been loving the wind! We took the opportunity to make kites to fly in the wind. We nearly got blown away. Article 28: Every child has the right to an education. Article 29: Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.
Henri Matisse Nursery is really enjoying practicing their scissor skills and cutting up paper. This led to us looking at the artist ‘Matisse’, his artwork was loved by the children. We had lots of discussions ‘it does not look like a snail’, ‘why are there lots of colours?’ Some children
In RE this week, year 5 have been learning about the beliefs of Muslims and the important figures they worship and respect within their religion of Islam. The children learnt that Muslims believe in only one God, who they call Allah, and that he is the only God. As he has many different characterist
The week, Year One wanted to investigate which material would be the strongest material to build a house for The Three Little Pigs. Firstly, everyone made a prediction of which would be the strongest. Some children thought straw, others thought sticks and others thought bricks. Then, the children we
We are so proud of all of our Phonics groups at Harlow Green Primary School. This term the children, from Reception to Year Two have enjoyed, learning new sounds and new words, developed new vocabulary and increased their fluency when reading their story books. They have amazed all of the grou
This half-term, the children in Year 6 have been exploring Cubist and Realist artwork. They have studied artists including Matisse, Picasso, Gainsborough, Modigliani and Schnabel for inspiration and have seen the different approaches they have taken to producing portraits. They really enjoyed on-lin
