Last week we had a lovely visit from Elizabeth the storyteller, who told us all about the Christmas Story. The children listened so beautifully and asked some super questions about the Christmas story.
Today two of our Year 6 pupils represented Harton Primary at the unveiling of a special plaque at the Town Hall. The plaque was originally from the Queen Street Methodist Church and commemorates 103 men connected with the church who served in WW1 and 16 men who sadly lost their lives. The plaque was discovered up for auction in Cirencester and thanks to the efforts of the South Shields Local History Group, it has been returned to South Shields. Isabelle and Thomas laid a wreath made by our Reception children. After the ceremony, they met the Mayor who showed them around the Town Hall.
Well done to all children who took part in the Odd Socks competition for Anti-bullying week. Here are some of our winners with their prize and the winning odd socks.
Yesterday to start Anti-Bullying week, the children took part in a fantastic workshop with Matt from Big Foot Arts Education.
The workshop was called ‘Good to be me’. This was a joyful, story-led anti-bullying workshop that helped the children celebrate who they are, be kind to others, and speak up with confidence.
The children acted out ‘ being kind’ to friends and what they should do if someone is unkind.
Check out some of our Odd Socks to celebrate Odd Socks Day 2025. We started the week with an assembly about Anti-Bullying week , discussing this years theme of ‘ Power for Good’.
Next week is Anti-Bullying week 10th – 14th November.
Monday the 10th November is Odd Sock Day, children are welcome to come to school in ‘Odd Socks’ to celebrate individuality and to promote anti-bullying awareness.
Friday the 14th November we will be fundraising for Children in Need. Children can come to school in non-uniform with a voluntary donation of £1.
Every Friday throughout October, we will be collecting cans of food for our local food bank, Key to Life.
We will be starting our collection on Friday 3rd October. Please send your child into school with any cans, packets or dried foods that you can spare to help this worthy cause.
This week the children completed our annual egg competition. There were some fantastic ideas and the children had a ‘CRACKING’ time making them. We were very impressed with their creativity and how independent they were.
Check out some of the amazing enteries!
We hope you all have a lovely Easter!
Year 5 enjoyed a visit from Aysha and Richard from Show Racism the Red Card. We had a great discussion around how to share care and compassion for others as well as being mindful about our language around people’s religion, gender, culture and ethnicity. We understand that we’re all part of one race – the human race.
The School Council were thrilled to help the foodbank with unpacking and sorting all of your Canny Friday donations. The children carefully labelled the canned foods and dried goods with their use-by dates on a recent visit to Key to Life. They enjoyed asking the foodbank’s volunteers some carefully thought through questions and were amazed at how the foodbank makes such a difference to our local community.
