Reader of the Month- May

26th May 2023P Mullea

May has been a really busy month in school but the children have still found time to impress staff with their excellent reading.

This month we were on the look out for children who have a great attitude to reading and make an extra effort with their home reading.

A special mention to Lucas in Year 1 who not only has a great attitude to reading he helps his little sister too by teaching her how to read!

Well done to Sienna in Year 4 who reading extra books at home as well as her home readers!

Lastly to Jack in Year 6 who reads so regularly at home he has become a word millionaire!

Writing blurbs

23rd May 2023D Fawkes

This week, Y6 are using the short clip ‘Alma’ as a stimulus for their writing.

We started off by creating a blurb for the clip, as though it was a written book. The children looked at the blurbs from their Accelerated Reader books and from lots of other books to help them identify the features of blurbs before writing their own.

They’ve really tried to build up suspense and encourage others to read the tale.

What do you think?

Votes for Women

19th May 2023D Fawkes

This half term, Year 6 are learning all about ‘The Changing Role of Women’. This week we have learned all about the suffragette movement. The children identified reasons for and against the suffragette movement and examined photographic sources then moved on to watching a re-enactment of one of Emmeline Pankhurst’s famous speeches from 1912 which inspired them to write their own persuasive speech, in role, as though they were a suffragette and a member of the WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union). Some children wanted to read theirs aloud to the rest of the class.

Have a look at some of their fantastic writing!

 

Our Year 6 Superstars

12th May 2023D Fawkes

Well done to all of our Year 6s who have done themselves and the school so proud this week. They have worked incredibly hard during their SATs this week and were so excited to receive their Leavers’ hoodies this morning.

 

 

 

More of our Bookworms

11th May 2023D Fawkes

Well done to our latest batch of Half Millionaires and Word Millionaires! More fantastic achievements and they really show our children’s love of reading.

Congratulations to Erin and Mia in Year 6 who are our latest Word Millionaires.

Mia is really enjoying reading the Wizard of Once series by Cressida Cowell. Mia says they’re very good books, they’re not too simple and she says they challenge her as a reader which she enjoys.

Erin is a huge fan of David Walliams’  books and she picked Robodog as her Millionaire prize. Erin says they’re not too difficult to read, she can read them so quickly because she enjoys them so much and she says they’re very funny.

 

Lego League Nationals 2022-23

5th May 2023R Errington

The Harton Primary Puzzlers visited Harrogate Convention Centre on 22nd April for the 2022-23 First Lego League UK and Ireland national tournament. The theme this year was Superpowered and was centered around finding efficient ways to generate, store and transport energy. The Puzzlers took their Skipatron 5000 working prototype along, and had queues of children and adults waiting to have a turn! They were interviewed by TV presenter, Maddie Moate, who even had a turn and came second on the leaderboard after Mrs Ratcliffe!

During the robot game, the team scored their highest score of 245! Commentators noted how efficient the team were throughout the game. Maizie was even invited to join the commentators to discuss the team’s strategy for completing the missions.

Out of the 69 teams from across the UK and Ireland, The Puzzlers emerged as the top ranked team from the North East of England, securing an overall position of 15th place, based on: their innovation idea and presentation; display of core values throughout the day; and their score in the robot competition. They were also in second place for a special judge’s award as well as being in the top 20 for their innovation project and core values.

We are all so proud of Jacob, Ella, Seamus, Mia, Darcie, Maizie, Max and Ellis for being absolute superstars throughout the day. They were a true testament to Harton Primary School.

https://youtu.be/ayad4gm0LMA

Reader of the Month- April

5th May 2023P Mullea

Congratulations to our Reader’s of the Month for April.

The theme for this month was being responsible.  The staff looked carefully at the children who take good care of our books, library spaces and return their books regularly; taking responsbility for their own progress in reading.

A special mention goes to Sapphire and Harry from Y5 for making 2 years of progress on their STAR reading assessment this month.

An extra special mention to Jude in Y5 who has made PHENOMENAL progress of 4 years in his reading age. He now has a reading age of 15 years 6 months! WOW

We hope the children enjoy their new books. Keep up the hard work.