The Angel Court garden plan begins to come together. Residents and the children got some inspiration from gardening magazines, they looked for the types of plants that they liked. Then discussed with Dom and Tom if those plants could grow successfully here in the North East. They planned put where t
The children in class 2A have enjoyed coming to Art Club on a Tuesday after school. They talked about what they have been learning in History based on Kings and Queens. Firstly, they created portraits of Henry VIII using pencils, crayons, felt pens and collage materials. They followed this by
As part of Harlow Green’s commitment to fostering a love of books and reading for pleasure, classes are ‘buddied’ up and, once a half-term, the older children get a change to read with younger children in school. It is an event that all children look forward to – allowing the KS2 children to be the
Throughout the half-term, Year 6 have been learning various gymnastics moves and this week they put them all together to create a routine set to the music from ‘Thriller.’ The children have been taught how to keep their body rigid and help in a balance for five seconds; how to perform various rolls;
Safer Internet Day is held every February all around the world. Safer Internet Day gives us a chance to think about all of the wonderful things technology can help us with, but it is also an opportunity to think about ways we can keep safe online and what to do if we see something we are worried abo
This week Nursery have been on a journey to China to celebrate the Chinese New Year. We have learnt all about the celebration of ‘Chinese New Year’ and explored their culture, looking at how it id different and similar to our own New Years celebration. We found that this year is the year of the Drag
This week, Reception have been celebrating the festival of Chinese New Year and have taken part in a lot of exciting activities throughout the week. We began by reading the story ‘Lanterns and Fireworks’ which tells the story of Chinese New Year. We learnt that fireworks are let off to scare a
This week, the children have been investigating shade and colour combinations. Earlier in the week, the children were introduced to an artist called John Dyer, who they will be basing their final piece on. The children have also been investigating how to change the shade of a colour using white an
Over the next two weeks, we are developing and perfecting our sewing skills by designing and creating our hand puppets. The children began by researching different types of puppets, watching videos and demonstrations of hand, rod, shadow and string/marionette puppets. We have this week created our
In Art this term, the children explored the vast array of colours they are able to make from the 3 primary colours and learned about secondary and tertiary colours in order to create their own colour wheels. The boys and girls also identified how adding white and black can change the tint of a colou
