Looking for good books as Christmas presents for children?
Books for Topics have put together a list of recommended books to give to primary school aged children this year.
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!
Just before half term Y6 had a workshop on Crime and Punishment with Newcastle Castle. This consolidated their learning from the half term where the children had learned about how crime and punishment had changed over time from the Roman era to today.
During the workshop the children got to look at a range of artefacts which were used as punishments, role play a court setting, made their own laws and they learned about key historical local figures.
In Year 6 we have been learning all about the human body this half term as part of our unit of work Animals including Humans. We carried out an experiment to examine how the digestive system worked. A bag was used to represent the stomach which was then filled with a banana and some biscuits. Orange juice was then added to represent the acid in our stomachs and the children had a go at mushing it all up, just like the muscles in our stomach would do. We then passed this through a pair of tights which represented our intestines and looked at how the nutrients would be absorbed into the bloodstream. It was a bit messy but the children really enjoyed it.
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!
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!
Well done to our latest group of Half Millionaires! Even more outstanding reading achievements this year from Flynn, Harry, Mia, Georgie, Isla and Lennon.
There is an opportunity for children aged 7-11 years to take part in a creative writing workshop on Saturday 25 June, 10.30-12.30pm at The Word. Children will create their own poetry whilst exploring the themes of the show. To book a place click on link https://theworduk.org/whats-on/the-secret-garden-writing-workshop/
The Secret Garden Performance will be happening on Sunday 26 June, 1.30pm at The Word and places can be booked via this link https://theworduk.org/whats-on/the-secret-garden-2/
