STEM week has started in Year 2 and we are enjoying taking part in the Lego League Master Piece Challenge. Today we thought about our hobbies and interests and ways in which we can showcase our talents to others. We learned about different roles and elements backstage that can enhance a performance. There are lots of careers that work within The Arts such as a graphic designer, stage manager, florist and games designer. Our challenge today was to work as a team to build a a stage using our Lego. It was very important to follow the instructions carefully and support our team mates.
As part of the NE Festival of Languages, our school choir learnt ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams in French. Our singing has been incorporated into a video with all of the other participating schools. Enjoy!
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.
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.
We are incredibly proud of our year 3, 4, 5 and 6 pupils who participated in the national Leaders Award competition, where children are posed the question ‘If you were an engineer, what would you do?’ The children are tasked with identifying a problem and designing an invention to solve that problem. They created labelled diagrams of their invention and wrote letters to a panel of judges explaining what their invention did and the inspiration behind it. Out of thousands of children who took part, over 70 of our children were shortlisted to the final round of judging and had their work displayed at Sunderland University.
We are also delighted to announce that Carter, in year 6, was announced as the winner for the north east of England for his invention of the Emergency Stop System! Carter’s invention would help people cross the road safely and it would be especially beneficial for people with visual impairments.
Today we had a special visit from the ‘Tiny Tweeties’. We sang fairytale songs, clapped, danced and tapped to the beat of the music. We had so much fun!
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!
Kate Bush was the first female to get a number one on the U.K. charts with a song that she had written herself (Wuthering Heights – 1978). Her album ‘Never for Ever’
also made her the first-ever woman to enter the UK album chart at the number one spot.
Key songs:
Wuthering Heights
Cloudbusting
Babooshka
Running Up That Hill
Hounds of Love
Rubberband Girl
Lyra
Interesting facts:
In 1978 Kate’s debut single Wuthering Heights topped the UK charts for four weeks.
Kate has dueted with Elton John, Prince and Stephen Fry.
Kate Bush’s dramatic vocals and exploration of the ‘art-pop’ genre has influenced many
popstars performing today such as Billy Eilish, Florence and the Machine, Bjork and Adele.
Kate is a devoted vegetarian and animal rights supporter. She was pictured wearing fur on her 2011 album Words For Snow and rushed to write an open letter to fans reassuring them the material was fake. She had previously said of fur coats “I don’t believe in wearing them.”
Kate Bush has always kept her personal life private. There are often years/decades between musical releases, and she is very rarely spotted at events, choosing to live a quiet life in South Devon instead.
Kate also studied karate in her youth and was given the nickname ‘Ee-ee’ because of the squeaky sound she made when practicing.
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.
