This week has been poetry week across the whole school. Year 6 have studied poems by John Agard and discussed the messages and meanings. They particularly enjoyed trying to perform sections of his poems in a similar style to the way he had performed for an audience. After this, the children wrote tw
Over the past three weeks, Year 6 have been learning a range of techniques to develop their sketching skills including hatching, blurring, reflections and showing movement. During this block of work, Year 6 have experimented with different gradings of pencils and have seen that the 6B pencil will na
This week has been poetry week across school. It is a week where children get to enjoy listening to poems from different poets; performing extracts from published poems; and, then writing their own poems to share. The poems are linked to the topics across school, meaning that the children have a wea
Reading is an essential part of Harlow Green’s curriculum. Giving the children to read and understand a text is vital across different curriculum areas, but perhaps what is of more importance is developing a love of reading and an interest in books that will remain with the children for life. As par
This half term, Year Six have been looking at 3D modelling during Computing lessons. The children have been using the Tinkercad programme to use editing skills to manipulate shapes on screen. First, they examined the similarities and differences between working digitally with 2D and 3D graphics. The
Yesterday after school one of our Year 5 and 6 school football teams took part in the Autumn cup qualifier which we hosted here at Harlow Green. We played 2 schools and were unbeaten in both matches. The team played extremely well and gave their all. we scored a goal right at the end of the second
Yesterday Morning our Year 5 and 6 Indoor Athletics teams took part in the Gateshead SSP Competition which was held at Gateshead Stadium. Our team was made up with 12 boys and 12 girls and they all worked together as a team to earn points for our school. The competition was split in to 2 sections fi
Barter Town is in full swing now, we begin each session with a review about the previous week, a town meeting if you like. What went well, what needs prioritising, what issues can be worked through. This gives the children time to reflect and to ask other villagers for advice. It has been interestin
On Tuesday two of our year 5 and 6 rugby teams took part in the Gateshead SSP Tag Rugby competition which was held at Winlaton Rugby club. Both Teams played against other schools and played really well as a team in every game they have been working really hard in PE and clubs leading up to this ev
This week, Year 6 were excited to be visited by St John Ambulance to learn some basic information about how to react to an emergency and some simple first aid if they were the first on the scene. The session started by considering the two emergency numbers the children might have to call – 999 and 1
