On Friday we all came to school in our Christmas Jumpers. Everyone looked great.
The children in Reception have shown what shining stars they really are, putting on a brilliant Christmas show this week. They have been working so hard and certainly made sure it was one to remember! All of the staff in Reception would like to thank you for your support in helping children to learn their parts. We must also say a big thank you to everyone who came along to see the show, we hope you are as proud of your children as we are!
We look forward to seeing you all at our Christmas Stay and Play event (Monday 14th December).
Nollaig Shona from Ireland.
A very excited group of children brought their crafty items, all ready to decorate a bauble. We set about designing our baubles with a theme of the North East. What fantastic ideas the children had! Off we go glue, glitter….
Once completed we chose our entry to send, yes you’ve guessed it ours
went all of the way to County Donegal, Northern Ireland.
Today we received a festive bauble from our Partner school.
Y3B have enjoyed taking part in the European Christmas Tree Decoration Exchange. We made decorations and Sean’s was picked to be sent to Germany.
Today we received two decorations from Ulm, a city in Southern Germany.
Did you know that Ulm has the tallest church in the world?
To reach the top of the steeple you need to climb a total of 768 steps.
Today we have a visit from some Newcastle Eagles players, to give us our Hoops4Health Roadshow come to school today. They explained to use the importance eating right, exercising to stay fit, the dangers smoking has to our health and basketball activities.
Our introduction talk from Drew.
Dribbling relay races
Ball handling – twice around the waist then once around the legs.
Sharks – dribblers had to catch the runners. Last one standing won 2 stickers!
Sharks – dribblers had to catch the runners. Last one standing won 2 stickers!
Our talk about the dangers of smoking.
Learning some of the shocking figures about smoking.
We had to listen carefully to win stickers at each activity. Most stickers won a prize.
Learning about fitness and how it affects our lungs and heart with Jordan
Learning about fitness and how it affects our lungs and heart with Jordan
Playing a reflexes game to end our roadshow.
Every time Drew bounced the ball, we had to clap. If we didn’t we were out….
…if we clapped and he didn’t bounce it, we were out. Kieran in 5F won this game by battling Jake and Matthew in 5W.
We have learned a lot about being healthy. To reward us for our hard work, the Newcastle Eagles coaches gave each child a 
for free entry to their next home match on the 11th of December at Sport Central. Parents even get in for a discounted price, using the instructions on the ticket.
France, Belgium, Wales, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Croatia and many more European countries…here we come!
It’s destination Europe, as our Christmas decorations for the European Christmas Decoration Exchange Programme, are ready for posting. The children really enjoyed bringing in their own resources and designing their own decoration on a local area theme. We can’t wait to start receiving parcels from all over Europe, learning about the countries they are from.
This year, Harton Primary have been given the opportunity to exchange hand made Christmas decorations with other international schools. The children made their decorations, along with a card from each class. These decorations will hopefully be sent off to various countries next Wednesday, such as Italy, Spain, and Croatia to name but a few.
Children from the paired schools will send us a Christmas decoration too! We look forward to using these to decorate our trees (which will be arriving at the end of November!)
Here are some examples of the decorations made in Y6J
Year 5 had fun working on myths and legends in Literacy last week. We particularly enjoyed working in groups to act out one of Hercules’ challenges. First the children decided upon characters and wrote a plan of their script. Then they performed in groups with brilliant expression! We enjoyed watching each other perform and then suggested ways we could improve for next time.
To link in with our work in Greek myths, we have been doing drama based on the labours of Herakles.
Each group was given a labor of Herakles and they had to work together to think of how he could solve that particular problem set to him by King Eurystheus.
Here are snap shots of their dramatizations of his labors – descriptions given to each are below.
Labour Number 3 – Capture the Cerynian Hind
Labour Number 4 – Kill the Stymphalian Birds
Labour Number 8 – Take the Girdle of the Amazon Queen Hippolyte
Labour Number 9 – Capture the Cattle of Geryon
Labour Number 3 – Capture the Cerynian Hind
The goddess Artemis loved and protected this stubborn little deer, which had gold horns. Hercules found it a challenge to capture the delicate hind without hurting it (and making Artemis angry).
Labour Number 4 – Kill the Stymphalian Birds
These murderous birds lived around Lake Stymphalos. Their claws and beaks were sharp as metal and their feathers flew like darts.
Labour Number 8 – Take the Girdle of the Amazon Queen Hippolyte
Hercules went to the land of the Amazons, where the queen welcomed him and agreed to give him her girdle for Eurystheus’s daughter. But Hera spread the rumor that Hercules came as an enemy.
Labour Number 9 – Capture the Cattle of Geryon
Geryon, a winged monster with three human bodies, had a herd of beautiful red cattle. He guarded his prized herd with the help of a giant and a vicious two-headed dog.
We learnt about how to write sentences about animals in French. The children took care with their spellings and punctuation, just like they do in their writing in English.
