Reception

This week’s HG News bulletin can be found below.

World Book Day is always full of excitement: children all dressed up; staff in strange costumes; and lots of fun activities planned throughout the day. The day is designed to celebrate the importance of books and foster a love of reading. This year, the whole school have worked from a twisted fairy

This week in reception we have been exploring the South Pole. We began by reading ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers that tells the story of a little boy who finds a lost penguin and must travel across the treacherous ocean to find his home in the South Pole. We discussed what the weather is li

Please see this week’s Harlow Green News below.

As the RSPB Big School Bird-watch comes to an end, we finished our Forest school sessions with the Great Woolly Worm Hunt. This is a fantastic challenge that helps the children to understand how birds feed.  In reflection we talk about how time consuming it can be and how tired the birds might get

Today, the Rights Respecting Officers visited Ravensworth Terrace to gain ideas about outdoor playtime. Thirteen of our Rights Respecting Officers had the opportunity to visit Ravensworth Terrace to see how playtimes are ran and the provision there is to access at this time. We thoroughly enjoyed se

This is the first News Report from HG NEWS which will be a new, weekly feature allowing Year 6 to experience being a news presenter.  The aim is to share some of the events that have occurred over the week in a different way that our community can access.

On Tuesday, the children in Reception enjoyed tasting delicious pancakes to celebrate shrove Tuesday.  We added different toppings including fruit, chocolate, syrup and lemon.  Everyone had a different opinion on which topping was best but we all enjoyed tasting them.

In this horrible, rainy weather there’s not a lot to do outside, so it’s the perfect time for grabbing a book and reading. The start of the year always sees some brilliant new book releases and WHSmith and Waterstones have some excellent displays of picture and chapter books that are well worth a lo

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