Year 5 are continuing to enjoy their STEAM week. Today, we have been finalising our robot codes and timing our missions. We have been putting all our innovation information together, as a group, into our presentations and creating our speeches for the judges. We are looking forward to our final day tomorrow.
Year 6 have loved taking part in STEAM week so far, developing a wide range of skills including teamwork and communication.
The children have been working in 4 different groups. Some groups have been coding, the coding instructs the robot to move around the Lego and complete certain missions, each of which can earn points. While some groups have done this, other groups and have been preparing their presentations. The presentations must outline a design for how an art is showcased. We have some excellent examples in Y6 so far including, a fidget table to support children with additional needs, a stopmotion app which helps younger children to construct Lego and an inflatasuit to help with jetty jumping and prevent injuries.
Today, we continued with our STEM week activities.
We have been split into groups and in our groups we have started programming our Lego robot to complete various missions using the Lego models we built on Friday. As well as coding the robots, we have been producing a presentation to share with the judges, about sharing a hobby/interest with new people. We have looked at the careers of visual effects, stage management, sound engineering and museum co-ordinators to identify ways in which we could share our hobbies with others in an interesting and immersive way.
This term, Year 2 were researching and designing beach huts as part of their DT. We looked into the main structure of beach huts around the world, discussed the materials and colours used to create them before designing our own. Finally, we enjoyed creating the structure and adding the internal decorations to create some wonderful beach huts. 
YRW hosted an ‘Easter Stay and Play’ session. First, we welcomed our family members and thanked them for attending. Then, we sang some Easter songs. Next, we decorated eggs in various colours and designs. We had lots of fun and we all had an eggcellent time!!! What do you think of our final creations?
Year 3 have been learning lots about the Romans. This week, we had a special visitor who came to teach us all about The Regina Tombstone. This amazing piece of history was found in South Shields! It is usually displayed at Arbeia Roman Fort but is currently on loan to the British Museum.
With our visitor, we looked closely at the tombstone with our historian heads on. One of the really interesting things about this tombstone is that the inscriptions is not only written in Latin, it also has a line of Palmyrene script as well, and this is unique in Roman Britain!
We thought about the meaning of monuments and then designed our own using creative art!
This week we have been reading the story ‘Elmer’. Today in Art, we have been exploring colour mixing, using the primary colours to make other colours.
We have a fantastic new whole school art display at Harton, all of the children in the school designed a flower using a material of their choice that they had enjoyed working with during the school year.
Here is their amazing work.
Children used oil pastels, paints, collage and pencils to create a flower that is unique to them. We have very talented artists at Harton!
Year 6 were lucky enough to have an another visit from a fantastic artist, Jane Lee McCracken.
Jane is a very talented Artist; Designer & Founder/CEO of ‘Drawing for the Planet’. She worked with our children on their drawings of Ugandan animals and discussed how a lot of the animals are either endangered or extinct.
Using coloured Biros only, the children selected an image and drew their own version of the animal.
The work the children produced was AMAZING and Jane is in the process of scanning and returning their pieces. Some of their work will even be displayed in Jane’s collection.
This half term, we will be painting a piece of artwork inspired by the paintings of The Great fire of London. Before we paint our artwork, we need to learn about and understand colour. We looked at paintings of The Great Fire of London and the different colours used. We saw that lots of orange, yellow and red were used for the fire and blue, green and purple were used for the buildings, river and people. We learnt the difference between warm colours (red, orange and yellow) and cool colours (green, blue and purple). We then found out about primary colours and how we could mix two primary colours to make secondary colours. Now, we know and understand which colours to use and how to make them ready for our painting.
