After reading 4 stanzas of the poem ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes, the children used drama to predict the next 4 scenes in the poem.
Here are some of our predictions of how the poem will end.
We are incredibly proud of our Harton Primary Puzzlers team this year. They represented South Tyneside in the national First Lego League final. They were polite, hardworking and enthusiastic throughout the day despite their very early morning start! They reached the final 12 knockout stage of the robotics game and even came away with the IET Innovation Award. They received this award for their detailed, inventive project idea as well as their fantastic gameshow-style presentation, interesting robot programming and design and their phenomenal teamwork. Well done, Harton Puzzlers.
Teamwork makes the dream work
More Lego!
Our placard
Harton Primary Puzzlers
Robotic game discussion with the ref
Jacob thoroughly checking the referee’s scores
IET Innovation Award
IET Innovation Award
IET Innovation Award
IET Innovation Award
Rehearsing Let’s Get Puzzling!
Our champions after winning the regional competition.
Check out one of our robot games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xGXAS1kxM&t=16076s
This is the moment the team received their well-deserved award.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLq35r3j0hU&t=3335s
This month we were very excited to be able to celebrate our Reader’s of the month on World Book Day! The children have been chosen because of their fantastic achievements in Reading at school and at home.
Well done everyone, we are so proud of you!
Y1A- Emilia Carr
Y1S- Oliver Lee
Y1B- Leo Bonhomme
Y2P- Charlie Snailham
Y2L- Daniel Hall
Y2M- Lucas Taylor
Y3S- Charlotte Henderson
Y3W- Lilly Storey
Y3D- Mya Fennel
Y4E- Amelie Iddon
Y4C- Maizie Wann
Y4B- Abbey Nichols
Y5F- Zofia Bean
Y5W- Miley Twigg
Y5L- Alfie Pitt
Y6F- Caitlin Young
Y6A- Ellie May Jopling
Y6D- Tommy Lewis
Y5L were excited to receive letters from their pen-pals in France today. They sent us letters and Happy New Year cards (Bonne Année 2022!).
In France, they have a big feast on Epiphany, around 6th January, and a figurine is hidden in the cake (galette de rois). The youngest child decides who gets each slice of cake and the person who receives the figurine in their slice gets to be king/queen for the day! The children in France sent us our very own crowns (couronnes).
We have written our letters back and look forward to the replies!
On Friday the 10th of December, the 40 children went to the Vertu Motor Arena (home of the Newcastle Eagles) to take part in the Year 5 Hoops4Health tournament. They took part in this event with 17 other teams from school across South Tyneside.
One of the 4 Harton teams sailed through their group stage undefeated, only to be beat by 2 baskets to zero in the Quarter Final knock out round.
Meet our ‘Readers of the Month’ for January. The children have been chosen for their amazing efforts with reading in school. Reading is such an important part of our curriculum and we know the children love reading, sharing books and celebrating their achievements. We are so proud of you all!
1A Hunter Telfer
1S Leon Mills
1B Belle Russell
2P Liam Woodrow
2L Ben Chisolm
2M Adam Ivanov
3S Jacob Vacher
3W Charlie Heslop
3D Derek Flynn
4E Jaycob Hudson
4C Remmi Spiller
4B Max Cockburn
5F James McCourt
5W Maratha Finnegan
5L Maxwell Marley
6F Maizie Railton
6A Molly Brown
6D Lily Davies
Congratulations, we hope you enjoy reading your new books at home.
We have our first WORD MILLIONAIRE of the academic year.
Congratulations to Harry in Y6A who is our first millionaire. We are so proud of him and this wonderful achievement. Harry is a huge fan of the Harry Potter books and he is currently working his way through the Series of Unfortunate Events books. Harry said he loves to read every night before he goes to sleep.
Harry has received an engraved trophy, certificate and a book of his choice as a reward.
We also have some Half Millionaires to congratulate! Well done to Lily in Y6D and Erin in Y5L (first in Year 5).
What superstar readers we have here at Harton!
Lots of our children have requested more higher level non-fiction texts in our Accelerated Reader library.
We have a wide range of new books on so many topics including space, sport and history.
Why not have a browse next time you are in the AR library?
Happy reading!
Books for Topics have been on a mission to dig out the best books to look forward to!
Their team has been taking a look at some of the new middle-grade titles (ages 8-12) coming up this term. They’ve picked out ten top recommendations to watch out for from January to April 2022.
Read more about the upcoming titles here:
https://www.booksfortopics.com/post/ones-to-watch-new-children-s-fiction-for-spring-2022?utm_campaign=ad04492b-376e-4497-ba4e-2b21063cb20b&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=0ce497f5-ca26-4099-9bd1-4bb5a674585a
A huge ‘Well Done’ to our Year 5 pupils who took part in our History club this half term!
We look forward to running the club with Year 4 pupils in the Spring term.
