Harton Rockstars are 11th in England

21st November 2023G Booth

Once again, our Key Stage 2 pupils have taken part in the national Times Tables Rock Stars competition ‘England Rocks’. Our boys and girls have superseded their previous achievements and come 11th out of 4080 primary schools!! This is a masssive accomplishment and shows everyone’s dedication to learning their times tables.

Y6F came 27th out of 30,034 classes. Again, a massive achievement!

We are exceptional proud of all of pupils who took part and their amazing times tables knowledge. Superb results!

 

Kielder Observatory

21st November 2023S Lovatt

We were so lucky to have astronomers from Kielder Observatory in school to do work with us about space.

Egg landers – we had to design and make an ‘egg-lander’, imagining the eggs were astronauts who needed to return to Earth safely from space. Could we help them land safely?

Investigating light – we looked at different colours of light, wore special glasses which showed us different colours of light, and used a thermal camera to see infrared radiation which is invisible to the human eye. Finally, we made bracelets with UV beads, which will change colour when exposed to UV rays from the sun.

Space rocks – we looked at real space rocks, which are billions of years old! These rocks fell to Earth as meteorites. We even looked at pieces of the moon and Mars.

 

Planets – we learnt lots of facts about the planets in our solar system and discussed their distance from each other and from the sun, making a human version of the solar system with inflatable planets.

Electricity in Year 4

17th November 2023Rachel Wright
Our first science topic in year 4 was all about electricity. We found out that electricity is a naturally occurring phenomenon but it can also be generated. It is the flow of tiny particles called electrons. Electricity can only flow when given a push from a power supply like a cell or a battery. We also know how to keep ourselves safe around electricity.
We learned how to draw symbols for the different components such as a cell, a bulb, a motor and a buzzer. We used these symbols to make circuit diagrams. Then we made a circuit with a bulb. We even looked at what would happen if we added more than one bulb to a circuit. We also conducted our own investigation about changing the number or types of components in a circuit.
We also investigated whether different materials were conductors or insulators. We did this by putting different objects into a circuit to see if a bulb would light. We’re going to use our science knowledge to make our own electrical greetings card.

Year 2 – Let’s make a wrap!

20th October 2023H Langley

As part of our DT topic, Year 2 were asked to create a healthy option to be added to the lunch menu. We had to make sure we included the different food groups from ‘The Eat Well Plate’ and followed our design to safely and hygienically prepare a simple dish without heat.

Asda community Champions came in to help us make our wraps and make sure we followed our design briefs.

Year 1 Orienteering

28th September 2023E BEATTIE

Our topic in Geography this half term is ‘Our School and Locality’. We were visited by Alice who helped us explore our school grounds.

First we learned all about how to use a compass including how to find North, East, South and West. Then we used these directions to give our partners instructions to find treasure hidden in the yard.

Our next challenge was to use maps to navigate around a maze, following instructions given by our partners. We used directions including ‘left’ and ‘right’.

Finally Alice challenged us to use maps of our school to find objects hidden in the grounds. We had a great time exploring and made some super observations.

Year 5 Rounding

27th September 2023G Booth

Year 5 have been rounding up to 6 digit numbers. We worked together to solve challenging word problems and reasoning questions. AJ explained, “You find the 100,000 column, and then look at the 10,000 column. It tells you if you need to round up or round down. So 546,500 would round down to 500,000.” All the children enjoyed rounding numbers up to 1,000,000.

Year 2 – Should we believe the wolf?

21st September 2023H Langley

In Year 2, we have begun reading The Wolf’s Story. After reading a few pages, we thought about reasons why we should or should not trust the wolf. We worked in groups to talk about how the character was different in this story to Little Red Riding Hood and formed an debate for and against the wolf. We had lots of fun using our reasons to create a conscious alley activity.

We’re blooming marvellous at Harton Primary!

19th September 2023ajennings

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!

 

 

 

Comparing volume

19th July 2023G Booth

Year 5 have been finding the volume of different shapes by counting cubes and recording the volume in cubic centimetres. Then we have decided which shape has the greater volume, using comparison symbols. Jess and Amelie shared their thoughts, “We loved doing it because it helped us to identify the different volume of different shapes.”