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As people might remember, the May Day Bank Holiday was changed this year to Friday 8th May 2020, with the intention of celebrating 75 years since VE Day.  Although we are not in school, let’s see if we can still come together as a community to share our gratitude for those who fought, worked and li

Question 1 – How do you get friends and family, who are isolated from each other, to come together and engage in some light-hearted competitive fun? Answer – An online quiz Click here for an actual set of family quiz questions. Click here for answers (only after you’ve tried the quiz!) Before scho

As we move into another three weeks of lockdown, the initial novelty of not being in school will be disappearing, even for children, and the reality of isolation will begin to have a more significant impact. Supporting children to understand what is happening and helping them to feel safe and secure

The staff in EYFS have been overwhelmed by the amount and variety of home learning activities that the children have posted to Tapestry and our e-mail this week.  It is evident that parents have been working hard to come up with new activities to make learning fun and keep their little ones busy. T

During times of hardship within a community, there is the possibility that people can look to focus on themselves only and not consider the needs of others or the wider community.  What people may not be  appreciating at this time is that we are all considering others through our current actions;

This week, the children in Nursery and Reception have been busy doing lots of arts and crafts with an Easter theme.  As well as some great painted egg designs, other crafts include: decorating Easter bonnets; colouring Easter egg designs; Easter models; Easter cards and egg hunts.  We would like t

As we come to the end of the Easter “holiday” – and a month of school closure – we have had the opportunity to reflect on what this has meant for us as a school community, at this stage. We now know that the lockdown will continue for at least another three weeks and that will take us close to the M

The Easter weekend is still with us and we hope that everyone has been having an enjoyable time.  The weather has been a little mixed but there has been some sunshine which people could have taken advantage of whilst following the national message for keeping ourselves safe. I’m sure that there was

We all love a good tune!  From our earliest years, through our formative teenage years and as some of us move into (and past!) middle age, our changing musical taste has been there for us to enjoy artists that speak to us in different ways. Recently, the power of music has been highlighted across t

And that is another week over!  At times, days are flying over whereas at other times the days feel like an eternity.  No matter how time is passing, what the staff at Harlow Green are definitely feeling now is that they are missing the children.  They are missing the connection and the time spen