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
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
This half term, the children taking part in our VEX robotics club participated in a tournament hosted by Nissan. The tournament involved 20 local primary schools who took their own robots to compete in driving skills challenges. Our team appropriately named themselves ‘The Green Machine’, and compet
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
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, 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
For the past two weeks, the children have been planning for and writing a newspaper article in English. As part of our sentence stackers, the children have been looking at and learning about broken speech. After learning about the rules regarding punctuation and the position of the reporting claus
The children and residents started putting last weeks garden plan into action today by potting up some seeds. First they went into the garden to collect some shale to put in the bottom of the pots for drainage. They then decorated their pots. We are testing out a new soil mix so it will be interest
As part of our Geography unit, Year 5 went on a trip the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. The children took part in a workshop, where they got to explore the different features of the rainforest and investigate different rainforest objects. The children thoroughly enjoyed being able to hold and
This week, in Geography, we started our new unit of ‘Human and physical geography within a region of South America and the UK’. The children started the topic by locating South America on a world map. Once we had located South America, we took a closer look at the countries within it, focusing o
