School Council visit Key to Life

14th November 2025eclark

The School Council were excited to go on their first trip to our local foodbank, Key to Life.

After a behind the scenes tour, the children quickly got to work. They worked as a team to unpack of our Canny Friday donations before carefully sorting them into boxes and labelling them with their ‘best before dates’. This will help the team of foodbank volunteers tremendously when making food parcels for those in need.

The children asked staff a range of carefully thought out questions and were astounded to learn that the foodbank helps at least 90 children a week. The children returned to school full of ideas as to how else they might help others in our local community.

 

 

 

 

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.

Key to Life – the School Council’s first mission!

27th November 2024eclark

The School Council were thrilled to help the foodbank with unpacking and sorting all of your Canny Friday donations. The children carefully labelled the canned foods and dried goods with their use-by dates on a recent visit to Key to Life. They enjoyed asking the foodbank’s volunteers some carefully thought through questions and were amazed at how the foodbank makes such a difference to our local community.

School Council election time!

21st October 2024eclark

It’s been a busy week at Harton as we have been voting for our 2024-2025 School Council representatives.

The hall was transformed into a polling station after the children carefully explored the role of the School Council in their Health and Wellbeing lessons.  Each class took part in a secret ballot and, after the children had voted, the ballot papers were carefully counted.

We look forward to revealing the new representatives soon.

 

 

Emma Lewell-Buck’s visit to Harton Primary

14th July 2023R Errington

Year 4 were very excited to take part in an assembly with MP for South Shields, Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck. Mrs Lewell-Buck told us about her job as a member of parliament and explained why she loves representing South Shields. The children asked some fantastic questions about her work and offered suggestions about ways to improve South Shields, including having more recycle bins around the town.

Town Hall Visit

5th May 2023S Whitfield

Year Three student council members had the opportunity to visit the town hall. We learned about democracy and sat in on an election hustings where candidates tried to convince us to vote for them. We discussed the impact our votes would have on the local community- for example one candidate said they would listen to all constituents and advocate for them. One candidate wanted to build a new swimming pool! After this we voted, waited as the votes were counted and welcomed the new prime minister of Staryland! We even met the mayor and had our picture taken with her. It was a great morning and we now have a much better understanding of democracy and the impact this has on our community.

New additions to September’s menu!

14th February 2023eclark

Sampling healthy foods was the School Council’s mission this morning as they tasted a variety of possible treats to add to next year’s lunch menu.

The children loved watching Mrs Seales cook the delicious dishes and they were excited to try a new chicken curry with rice. A colourful quorn stir fry quickly followed.

The recipes received a thumbs up from the children and we can’t wait to try them again when they will be available at lunchtime in September.

 

School Council election time

13th October 2022eclark

The School Council have such an important job role to play at Harton and the children have loved electing their new representatives this week. Each class patiently waited their turn to use the voting booths before carefully marking their choice on their ballot papers. Existing Council members even helped by counting up the votes.

We can’t wait to find out who our new School Council are!

 

Reduce, reuse and refill? Refillable glue sticks come to Harton

5th July 2022eclark

The School Council have worked really hard to spread our ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ message this year and they were thrilled to learn that we will be trialling refillable glue sticks from September.

Council members were the first to get their hands on these new glue sticks and they had lots of fun filling them with glue. They found the whole process super easy and were thrilled to learn that this would drastically reduce the amount of plastic used by our school.