Absence reporting procedures

27th January 2025Mr R Donnelly

Please note that it is parents’ responsibility to notify school if your child is going to be absent. If your child is not in school and we do not receive any communication from you, we will endeavour to make contact with you on the first day of absence. Your child will be marked as ‘N’ (not present) at this point. If we do not receive any reason for absence within 5 days, the code on the register will be changed to an O (unauthorised absence.) Please note that ten sessions (5 days) of unauthorised absence within a 10-week period can result in a referral to the Local Authority and the issuing of a Penalty Notice Warning, which can include a fine.

For more information, please refer to our Attendance Policy: https://hartonprimary.co.uk/new-policies/

 

Tigers in Year 6

24th January 2025D Fawkes

Year 6 are writing lots about tigers this half term in English. At the start of the half term children conducted lots of research and wrote non-chronological reports about tigers and last week the children created their own persuasive adverts for a tiger charity and I am sure you will agree, they are fantastic! We have also been using our sketching skills to create tiger portraits in art lessons. We have some very talented artists!

Half Millionaires

24th January 2025D Fawkes

Congratulations to James, Eva, Sienna and Bonnie in Y6 who are Half Millionaires. The girls have loved the Lottie Brooks books by Katie Kirby and they have all loved reading lots of David Walliams books. Keep up the regular reading!

 

Harton Mini Police visit Northumbria Police Maritime Policing Unit

14th January 2025G Booth

Our Mini Police officers were invited to the Northumbria Police Maritime Policing Unit in Jarrow to find out about policing our local water areas. We learned about the skills needed to police the river, lakes and sea. After looking at the specialist diving equipment, we saw their deep training pool and learned about what they use to rescue people.

Our first Millionaire!

20th December 2024D Fawkes

We have our first Word Millionaire of the academic year 2024-2025.

Congratulations to Esme in Year 6, our very first Millionaire this year. This is an excellent achievement at any point of the year, but to have read over 1,000,000 words in a term is outstanding!

Well done to Oliver and Jayden in Year 6 also for becoming Half Millionaires . The boys have read so much this half term and we know they will be Word Millionaires in no time!

Harton Choir at the Civic Christmas Carol Concert

16th December 2024N Trotter

On Monday 2nd December, we were so proud of our choir when they sang beautifully alongside a number of other schools at the Carol Concert held at Temple Park.

For obvious reasons, the performance is not filmed but Radio Shields do record the event and it’s due to be aired as follows:

“Tune In to the Sounds of Christmas!

Radio Shields is proud to showcase this year’s South Tyneside Civic Christmas Carol Concert – a festive celebration of music and community spirit!

Broadcast Times:

Monday 16th December at 2 PM

Wednesday 18th December at 2 PM

Friday 20th December at 2 PM”

 

Well done Harton Choir!

 

Adventures in our Allotment

28th November 2024Emma Adams

On Tuesday afternoon, some of our school councillors were working hard in our allotment. We were busy tidying our raised beds and turning over the soil, ready for planting. With the help of some of our amazing parent helpers, we were able to tidy our poly tunnel too. All of this is in preparation for an exciting project in the new year! We are so happy to have the opportunity to work with Kaye and Danielle from Williby Rocs CIC. They are going to be helping us to develop our allotment and make super links to our science lessons. A big thank you again to Ian, Jack, Angie, Valerie and Kaye for lending a hand on Tuesday. Here are some photos from the afternoon.

Map skills

21st November 2024D Fawkes

This half term Year 6 are learning all about ‘The Americas’. Last week the children looked at South America and developed their map skills to find the locations of different countries in South America. We also located some capital cities and have been developing our vocabulary to describe the location and characteristics of different countries across the Americas.