We were so lucky to have lovely weather on our Nursery children’s trip to the beach.
Everybody had a lovely day out!
The whole school have participated in Art workshops with local artist Zoe Emma Scott.
Zoe inspired the children by sharing pieces of her artwork and explaining ways in which they can make their work their own.
All children were set the challenge to illustrate their idea of a happy day. The artwork the children produced throughout the school was fantastic!
After much deliberation Zoe chose some final pieces to receive an art award and one lucky person had their art work printed! The children who received the art awards are as follows:
Nursery-Darcie D
Reception-Lexie H
Year 1-Maizie R
Year 2-Lily D
Year 3-Andrew A
Year 4-Maisie S
Year 5-Daniel R
Year 6-Kaitlyn E
The School Council were pleased to show off their ‘Canny Friday’ efforts last week when the Shields Gazette visited the school especially to see their display. The children talked confidently about the project and the donations received so far. They cannot wait to give them to the South Tyneside Food Bank!
In addition to counting the total number of cans received for each Canny Friday, our School Council members have also been busy recording the total number of donations received from each year group. School Council member Keira suggested this at our last meeting and the other children agreed that this would be an interesting idea. Year 3 are even going to analyse some of this data in their maths lessons next half term!
Last week, the Year 4 children helped to collect and count the cans. Thank you to everyone for your generous donations. A particular thanks go to the children of Y3R, who managed 33 cans, and to Nursery and Reception. In total, the children and parents from our Foundation Stage donated 46 cans for the South Tyneside Food Bank.
Our School Council members have been carefully counting your cans of food. They were thrilled to find that our first ‘Canny Friday’ resulted in 249 cans being collected for the South Tyneside Food Bank.
We’re looking forward to our next Canny Friday (17th March) already!
School Council members were thrilled to receive a visit from Maureen, a volunteer at Hospitality and Hope. Maureen brought many boxes with her so that all of your cans and dried foods, received as part of our ‘Canny Friday’ initiative, can be stored safely.
The School Council cannot wait to count all of the donations received so far.
This half term, our School Council are collecting donations of canned and other dried foods to help the South Tyneside Food Bank. Providing emergency food parcels for local individuals and families in crisis, the food bank is run by ‘Hospitality and Hope’. This is a Christian faith based charity that was established in 2002 to help support vulnerable individuals from within our community.
Donations of canned and dried foods for the food bank can be sent into school with your child each Friday. Our School Council members will be involved in sorting these donations, prior them being collected by the charity.
The first ‘Canny Friday’ will be held on Friday 10th March. The event will continue to be held, each Friday, until the end of term.
We have been very lucky in Nursery as we have taken part in the Little Dribblers programme.
This is run by Sunderland Football Club and a special coach, Caroline, came to see us every week to teach us some football skills.
The children loved it, as did the staff and it was lovely to see so many of the children make huge progress in their physical skills in such a short space of time.
She is now working with the Reception children so keep watching the website for updates.
Reading is a high priority in Harton Primary and we try to nurture a love of books and reading from Nursery.
We invited all children and parents to accompany us to the local library to listen to stories and take part in craft activities. We really enjoyed this visit and the children got a lot from it.
We looked for signs of literacy on the journey down to the library and the children were fantastic at spotting signs!
The staff in the library were very welcoming and all children created their own version of Elmer the elephant. Some children even joined the library while we were there. We are really grateful for the support from all of our parents.
The children in Nursery fully took advantage of Pancake Day. They tasted lots of pancakes and added their own toppings. They tasted pancakes topped with golden syrup, lemon, sugar, Nutella and jam. Yum yum! We were so pleased to see some of our children trying new things and talking about their favourite toppings.
