Our Harton Primary Elmer has taken over the Customs House, as part of the Great North Elmer Parade. Designed and painted by pupils at our school!
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On Monday we had a visitor from Ancient Athens come in to tell us about everyday life in Ancient Greece. She showed us Greek clothing, weapons and explained the different roles of people in Greek households. Each group were told a tale of what happens when you make the Greek gods cross – even usually calm-headed Athena.
Make sure you ask the year 5’s:
- What is a peplos?
- Who was Arachne?
- What did the Greeks wear for PE?
- Who told their soldiers “Come back with your shield, or on it”, and what does it mean?
Check out what the Harton Primary Puzzlers have been doing this week for the Lego League, written by Daniel and Daniel.
https://hartonprimarypuzzlers.weebly.com/home/getting-ready-for-trips-and-experts
The first activity of the new Harton Primary Puzzlers was a trip to The Word to do some robot programming tasks – including tasks on the new City Shaper mat and missions.
We had to first make a robot move in particular ways, with ended up with a robot dance off.
Then, after lunch, we started work on the challenge mat. 2 groups worked on making the robot take some brick to certain areas of the mat, leave them there and come back to home base. Another group worked on getting the robot to drive to and up a ramp, and if possible raise 2 flags.
Check out this video of their last run:
Great start to the table, now to work on more of the missions.
Thank you to all of our parents/guardians for the contributions during our Elmer Project Day. We raised over £400 for St. Oswalds Hospice.
We are so excited for Elmer’s Great North Parade and cannot wait to see our Harton Primary School elephant on the trail. During our project day the children put forward their own design ideas and they were amazing. We cannot wait to share them with you.
This week we pushed ourselves to both animate and add voices and sound effects. We spend half the session animating a quick interaction between characters (using ‘I Can Animate’), then used iMovie to record our voices and had a quick play with the music and sound effects.
Our Elmer sculpture is complete! It has been collected and is off to join the herd. Look out for our Harton Primary School sculpture, called ‘Proud to be me!’ during the summer holidays. The trail will begin in August. A huge thank you to every child that completed an Elmer design! The children have spent so long painting the sculpture and making sure it looked it’s very best before leaving our school. It looks AMAZING!
In our third week of Stop-Motion club, we made focused on movement of a Lego minifigure. We started with walking, then climbing and sliding.
It was hard to keep the Lego minifigure’s torso upright when walking, but they turned out great. The group’s flare for trying new things is clearly evident, once again.
We love Times Table Rockstars so much that we decided to have a competition week to find out who could answer the most correct questions in the fastest time. Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 had year group winners and a runner up.
In our second week of Stop-Motion club, we made videos of Lego models, but with a twist. These model looked like they were building themselves – which was quite difficult.
Some of the children experimented with these videos, using their hands to cover or make models disappear.
Keep an eye out for future videos from the group.
