Christmas festivities in Year 2!

16th December 2020ajennings

Year 2 have had an action packed few weeks getting into the festive spirit and have been taking part in some fantastic Christmas activities. The children have designed wonderful Christmas cards and beautiful calendars using paint to create a tree for all seasons.

Christmas party day was brilliant, starting off with an online pantomime which was hilarious – the children got involved, singing along to the songs and shouting at the characters! They had a wonderful time dancing and playing party games in the classroom, we have some fabulous dancers.

They enjoyed a visit to Harton Grotto for hot chocolate with marshmallows, a story and some singing. There was even presents under the tree! 

Finally we had visit from Tides of Change, the children made their own Christmas tree decoration using twigs and then roasted marshmallows to make delicious s’mores. It’s been a truly wonderful time and we have enjoyed every minute. 

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Year 2 home learning 20.11.20

20th November 2020ajennings

Hello everyone,

Happy Friday, we’d like to thank you for all of your support and hard work this week.

Wellbeing bubble

We will be logging onto Google classroom at 10am to discuss the ‘My Wellbeing bubble’ activity with the children.

They can use their creativity to think about how their bubble would taste, smell, sound and feel. Finally using their ideas to draw their bubble using colour and patterns.

Phonics

Today’s sound is the special friends aw yawn at dawn. 

This video will support children with their learning.

English

In English, we’d like you to complete the activities on pages 8 and 9 which is looking at adding ‘ing’ to words to show that something is happening or was happening. 

The following page on BBC bitesize also has some activities about using suffixes. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8mxrwx/articles/zwgbcwx

Maths

Pages 8 and 9 in the Maths book is partitioning numbers we’ve done a lot of this in school and children might know it as the part whole model which they all love!

As it’s Friday why not end the week with a dance on GoNoodle! We hope you all have a restful weekend.

 

 

Art in Year 1

6th October 2020Year 1

We really enjoyed creating art work inspired by Louise Mead. We used finger printing to create a bright tree design. It will make a fabulous display in our class!

 

Year 1’s recyclable art!

21st July 2020ajennings

Year 1 had an amazing time creating these brilliant pieces of art, taking inspiration from artist Rodney McCoubrey who recycles found objects to create quirky and interesting pieces.

They used beads, sweet wrappers, packaging, wire and wool to create these fantastic fish!

 

School Awarded Artsmark Silver Award!

29th June 2020Ms A Emmerson

We are delighted to announce that Harton Primary School has been awarded an Artsmark Silver Award by the Art Council of England! We have only worked towards this award for 4 terms so this is an incredible achievement.

We are very proud this award and look forward developing our creative arts curriculum even further in the future!

The assessor made the following comment about the fantastic opportunities we provide at Harton:

‘It is good to see the progress your school has made in developing the Arts in just 4 terms. A new music scheme has been adopted and some valuable CPD has been given to staff in this and other arts. There have been several successful events and initiatives, including your Arts week, your Year 2 Heritage Learning Project and your Pen Pal Portrait Project, making some good links with other settings and establishing partnerships with arts providers and organisations.’ 

 

 

Ickabog Illustrations

8th June 2020D Fawkes

We have seen some fantastic pictures that our children have drawn to enter The Ickabog Illustration Competition.

J.K. Rowling is publishing an original story, The Ickabog (the “Story”), online (https://www.theickabog.com/read-the-story) in instalments over seven weeks, and is inviting children to help her by illustrating the Story.

A new instalment of the Story and illustration themes to go with it will be revealed daily, Monday to Friday, throughout the course of the seven weeks, so do stay tuned.

34 winning illustrations will be selected to bring the serialised story to the printed page when it is published in full, which is intended for November 2020.

Entries are open, and the competition will close at 6pm BST on Friday 17th July 2020.