Miscellaneous

The children enjoyed an afternoon with the residents of Angel Court and a creative writer from The Equal Arts Council. These sessions tie into the everyone’s love of nature. Last week we began with a story about how the trees lose their leaves, this week the sessions continued with a tale about Gret

Year 6 children headed out to the Forest School this week to begin in a block of sessions that have a definite theme running in the background but still follow the guiding principles of the Forest School. Last lesson we stayed in class avoiding the torrential rain and set the scene for the next few

This week the Nursery children had their first Forest School session. Miss Rowe was so impressed with how well they sat and listened in class and had a very lively discussion about what our school rules Ready, Respectful and Safe look like in the Forest School. Then we headed out onto the woods. We

This afternoon, Year One were so lucky to have visitors from Animal Encounters. Firstly, they introduced the topic of dinosaurs and explained how they lived thousands of years ago but now they are extinct. The children listened carefully to the possible explanation, including a meteor or a volcanic

In English this week, the boys and girls were set a challenge. The children were asked to use some clues to guess a very famous character from a book.  Firstly, the children were given some cleaning items including an apron, a duster, a cloth and a spray bottle. The second clue had arrived in the p

Year 6 lead our Nursery children in a Forest School session and demonstrated why this part of our weekly life at Harlow Green is so important. In a formal sense this is why we do it: “The process helps and facilitates more than knowledge-gathering, it helps learners develop socially, emotionally, sp

At Angel Court we have been lucky enough to be working with The Equal Arts Council and Elizabeth Baker, a writer and story teller from the North East. This is linked to our community project Plot to Pot, inspired by the Community Garden we have developed with the residents. We began by learning abou

Year 2 and Year 5 documented their own Forest School sessions this week. This is just a snapshot of what they got up to. They made a boat from an upturned picnic table and sailed the world. They created with clay and natural materials. They hunted for bugs and amphibians. They climbed the trees and

Year One were so excited to be introduced to their new text in English. As it is set in the Kalahari Desert in Africa, firstly everyone went on an animal safari.  The children made safari name badges and then we all took our pretend binoculars and clipboard outside to see which animals we could spo

We were thrilled to have Ruth and Eve from Sylvan Skills working with some of our Year 5 children to re-dress our willow hens.  Ruth started the session by showing the children how to weave the willow into egg shapes. It can be hard on the hands but they did a really good job, gradually weaving aro