Check out our amazing odd socks to celebrate Odd Socks Day 2021.
It has been an opportunity to encourage all of us to express ourselves, celebrate our individuality and what makes us all unique and special.
Monday will be Odd Socks Day in school. Children are to come to school in uniform but are allowed to wear ‘odd socks’. It’s a great way to celebrate what makes us all unique in Anti-Bullying Week!
Today we held our annual Remembrance Day commemoration. Children across the school have been learning about Remembrance Day and every child made their own poppy. The poppies were displayed around the school. Here are some photos of our beautiful poppies.
Here are our ‘Words of the Week’ for KS1 and KS2 this week.
Key Stage 1 words are Grasshopper
Key Stage 2 words are Shinobi
Anti-Bullying Week is coordinated In England and Wales by the Anti-Bullying Alliance and takes place from 15 to 19 November 2021 and it has the theme One Kind Word. The week will begin with Odd Socks Day on Monday 15th.
Kindness is more important today than it has ever been. The isolation of the last year has underlined how little acts of consideration can break down barriers and brighten the lives of the people around us. This is one of the reasons, that ‘One Kind Word’ has been chosen as the theme of Anti-Bullying Week taking place from 15 to 19 of November 2021.
At Harton Primary, we will be embracing the ‘One Kind Word’ theme and celebrating the week with a range of activities. We are looking forward to a kindness filled week.
Y3 have really enjoyed learning about black history this week! We know that all people should be treated equally but sadly, this isn’t always the case, and many groups of people around the world still suffer as a result of discrimination.
Thankfully, there are some amazing people who have done incredible things to fight for equality. This week we have been focusing on one of these people, Rosa Parks.
We started the week by learning her story, we came across lots of new vocabulary such as segregation and civil rights so we created a glossary.
We then looked at Rosa Park’s most important life events and ordered them in chronological order. We then began to think about which was the most important event. When Rosa bravely refused to give up her seat on the bus, this was a small act that caused big changes. We decided this was her most important life event because this started this bus boycott that put an end to the segregation on buses.
To end the week we used drama to act out Rosa’s courage and bravery. We stepped inside the shoes of those involved in the bus incident and discussed how different people would have reacted when Rosa stood up for her rights. We compared this to how it would be different if this happened today.
Check out the brilliant bats that some of our children have made for the Halloween STEM project arranged by Harton Academy. We’re really impressed by the different strategies used to improve how far the bats flew.
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A special visitor called Rachel visited Year 3 to transport us back to what life was like in the Stone Age times. We learnt how to light a fire using flint and a fire steel, just like they would have thousands of years ago. Back then, the hunter gathers had to source their own food, we handled lots of different tools and thought about how they would have been used. After that we made ancient bannock bread and cooked it over our open fire. It was delicious!
A hunter gather had to move around as the seasons changed to ensure they had food to eat, so our final task was to work in teams to create our own nomadic shelter. We had so much fun!
Year 3 have been investigating an ancient artefact known as a petrosphere! Over 400 have been found by archaeologists. They are believed to be around 4 thousand years old and date to the late Neolithic or Stone Age times. Nobody knows exactly what they were used for but we made some great inferences based on what we already know about this time. After that, we used clay to create our own petrosphere. What do you think the petrosphere was used for?
Here are our ‘Words of the Week’ for KS1 and KS2 this week.
Key Stage 1 words are Grasshopper
Key Stage 2 words are Shinobi
