The children have made some special poppies for Veterans at Ease in South Shields. They look amazing in their window display!
It’s been a busy week at Harton as we have been voting for our 2024-2025 School Council representatives.
The hall was transformed into a polling station after the children carefully explored the role of the School Council in their Health and Wellbeing lessons. Each class took part in a secret ballot and, after the children had voted, the ballot papers were carefully counted.
We look forward to revealing the new representatives soon.
As part of the NE Festival of Languages, our school choir learnt ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams in French. Our singing has been incorporated into a video with all of the other participating schools. Enjoy!
Today we had a special assembly to mark to 80th Anniversary of D-Day. The children discovered what D-Day was and why it was so important. They also found out about men from South Shields who played a role in D-Day. They heard stories from the book ‘Their Finest Hour’ by Terry Ford. Terry has been working with Oxford University and the South Shields Local History Group to collect stories of ‘South Shields Heroes from World War II’. The children enjoyed listening to some of these fantastic stories!
Year 4 were very excited to take part in an assembly with MP for South Shields, Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck. Mrs Lewell-Buck told us about her job as a member of parliament and explained why she loves representing South Shields. The children asked some fantastic questions about her work and offered suggestions about ways to improve South Shields, including having more recycle bins around the town.
Last week, Year 2 visited St Lawrence’s Church to learn about baptism and how Christians welcome people into their faith. Thank you so much to Sharon and Adam for hosting.
Today we all planted a sunflower to celebrate being different and unique.
Our sunflowers just like us will all be different and special.
We are excited to watch them grow.
We had a great time celebrating the King’s Coronation. Check out our super day! We even had a royal lunch!
Today we celebrated the coronation of King Charles. Across the school the children have been finding out about King Charles and the history of coronations. We came to school dressed in red, white and blue then had our own coronation party!
Year Three student council members had the opportunity to visit the town hall. We learned about democracy and sat in on an election hustings where candidates tried to convince us to vote for them. We discussed the impact our votes would have on the local community- for example one candidate said they would listen to all constituents and advocate for them. One candidate wanted to build a new swimming pool! After this we voted, waited as the votes were counted and welcomed the new prime minister of Staryland! We even met the mayor and had our picture taken with her. It was a great morning and we now have a much better understanding of democracy and the impact this has on our community.
