Year 3 had a fantastic first art club drawing their own self portraits. We looked at different artists and their interpretation of self portraits then children completed a portrait of themselves using mirrors and photographs to help them. They were encouraged to think about shading to enhance their drawings and add details. We finished the session with a gallery tour where they looked at the sketches and gave positive feedback to each other.
There are some very talented artists in year 3! 
Some of our Y5 and Y6 girls had a very exciting opportunity today to visit Dance City in Newcastle as part of South Tyneside’s School Sport Network. The girls learned a dance routine and then they had the opportunity to choreograph their own routine and perform it. It was a fantastic morning!
Harton Choir were randomly selected on Friday 14th February, to be a part of the ‘Choir Of The Year Competition 2025’ at Durham Cathedral.
They had to sing alongside 5 other schools in front of 2 judges.
The children sang ‘Rule The World’ by Take That and they were AMAZING!
Unfortunately, they did not win the competition but they were given some valuable feedback about how they could improve in the future and there were a lot of positive comments about their performance.
Well done, Harton Choir!
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!
Following on from our amazing performance yesterday, Year 1 had a fantastic time at our Christmas party. The children enjoyed lots of dancing, party games and showing off their lovely party clothes.
We would love to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2025.
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!
In English, we are reading Grace and family by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch. Grace goes to stay with her father in The Gambia and while there she visits a market.This morning, we created our own ‘African market’ and the children tasted different fruits, smelt spices, saw bright, colourful fabrics and heard music and the hustle and bustle of a busy market. We used this as inspiration to write expanded noun phrases which we will include in a setting description of an African market.
This week we have been celebrating Black History Week. We have been talking about what makes us special and learning about different cultures. In topic, we learned about Africa. We found out many facts about the country and compared Africa to the UK. We made some African necklaces and took part in some African dancing.
In History, we have been learning about the Stone Age.
So far we have found out when the Stone Age occurred on a timeline of different civilisations, learnt about hunter-gatherers and found out about some Stone Age settlements.
This week we looked at some Stone Age cave art and then created our own using charcoal.
This half term, in art, Year 4 are learning about the French artist Henri Rousseau. This week, we worked in groups and looked at different examples of his work and discussed what we could see. We considered and then wrote words and phrases about the theme of the paintings, the different colours used, if we could see shading and texture in the art work and how the painting made us feel.
COMING SOON – Our own pieces of artwork inspired by Henri Rousseau.
