Our Key Stage 2 pupils took part in the national Times Table Rock Stars ‘England Rocks’ competition last week. Amazingly, we came 16th out of 4000 schools across the whole country!
Especially well done to Y6F who came 53rd out of 29,000 classes, closely followed by Y5F who came 79th.
We are super proud of all our pupils who took part, showing how amazing they are at their multiplication facts. A fantastic achievement!
Well done to all of the children who took part in our Odd Socks Competition 2022.
A special well done to our winners.
Check out the photos of some of our winners!
Today we have celebrated Odd Socks Day.
Odd Socks Day provides an opportunity to have fun, be yourself, and spread awareness of the core values Anti-Bullying Week promotes.
We all joined Andy and the Odd Socks for a dance and a sing along.
Check out some of our Odd Socks photos!
On Tuesday, Year 5 were lucky to have visitors from Durham University to do a workshop about the ancient Greeks.
We had the chance to look at some different artefacts. We had to be very careful and gentle when holding these fragile items. We looked at the colours, shapes and textures of the artefacts and discussed what we thought they were used for.
We also had the chance to learn the letters of the Greek alphabet and learnt about democracy. We then used the Greek alphabet to create a persuasive poster to try and get people to vote for us.
Then, we used clay to make a votive offering to the gods.
Finally, we ended our day with a play in the hall. In Ancient Greek theatre, all parts (male and female) were played by men wearing masks. In our play, we had boys acting as girls and girls acting as boys. We acted out the famous ancient Greek play: Medea.
It was a pleasure to introduce our new Year 5 mini police cohort to the Inspector and other colleagues from Northumbria Police on Thursday.
They will be busy over the year with a range of duties, including reporting back to their peers about what they have learned in the sessions with police officers about keeping safe online, healthy relationships and water safety, as well as representing the school and the force at local events such as the Remembrance Day Parade on Sunday 13th November.
We know they’ll have a lot of fun and do a great job!
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On Wednesday, Year-5 took part in a Hinduism workshop as part of our RE topic this half term. The children learned about Hindu beliefs; heard some Hindu stories; looked at artefacts; discussed Hindu gods; learned a little about karma and meditation; learned to dance using Indian Dandiya sticks; and dressed up in some authentic Hindu clothing.
Our wonderful Year 5 mini-police were nominated for The Shining Stars Award at the Citizens in Policing Awards 2022 which were held at The Sage. Joseph and Maxwell attended the awards to represent all of our mini-police. It was a great night and the boys were presented with a goody bag each and met lots of important people, including the High Sheriffs of Tyne and Wear. They were temporarily knighted by one of them and held the title ‘Sir’ for 24 hours. The boys brought back certificates to present to the other mini-police. All of the mini-police have done a great job this year and we are very proud of them.
Wow! Even more AR award winners! Mrs Fawkes is delighted to say she is struggling to keep up with them, there are so many!
What an amazing year we are having with reading achievements and it is wonderful to see our children so enthusiastic about reading!
Congratulations to James (Y5F), Jack (Y5F), Erin (Y5L), Mia (Y5L) and Conner (Y6F) who have become our latest Word Millionaires and to Bonnie (Y3W), Elizabeth (Y4C), Maizie (Y4C), Ethan (Y6F), Ryan (Y6F) and Alfie (Y6A) who are now Half Millionaires!
The year 5 children spend the afternoon coding fortune tellers on the Micro:bits.
They had to instruct the Micro:bits to give answers to questions when when they have the correct input (shaking the Micro:bit), and used a random number generator to choose the response based on if the condition was ‘true’ or ‘false’.
This year Hadrian’s Wall celebrates it’s 1900th anniversary. To mark this special occasion, we have created our very own ‘Hadrian’s Wall at Harton’. Every class from Nursery to Year 6, have been learning about Hadrian’s Wall. The children used what they had discovered to write a fact about the wall on a brick which we used to make our enormous wall!
