History
Remembrance Visit to the Cenotaph
Nursery visited the local cenotaph for remembrance. We made crosses to leave at the cenotaph and enjoyed looking at the wooden carvings and remembrance flower boxes and benches.
Nursery
Visit to the allotment
This week nursery children visited the allotment as part of our autumn week. We found tomatoes growing in the poly tunnel and strawberry plants in the flower bed. We spotted some yellow flowers and saw spiders and snails in the bug hotel. Jaxon even found a millipede! The children wanted Read more…
Nursery
Pumpkin Soup
In Nursery we made pumpkin soup this week. We used our fine and gross motor skills to chop the pumpkin carefully into chunks then put them on a tray for roasting. Then the chunks were blended and cooked into a soup. We tasted our soup sitting outside enjoying the autumn Read more…
Nursery
Nursery Autumn Walk
This week in nursery we have been learning about autumn and how trees change colour and lose their leaves. We went on an autumn walk around the school grounds and collected lots of leaves to explore in our classroom. We talked about the autumn colours of brown, red, orange and Read more…
Art & Design
Colour mixing in Reception
We have been learning how to make new colours in our Art lessons by mixing blue, red and yellow. Children have enjoyed exploring this further in the provision mixing lots of different colours and shades!
Whole School
Learning about Georgia O’Keeffe
Today Reception children were introduced to the artist Georgia O’Keeffe. We looked at her paintings of flowers and discussed the colours and details we could see. Some children chose to colour their own flowers inspired by O’Keeffe’s artwork.
Choir
Choir Christmas Performances 2021
The Harwood Park Choir have been rehearsing hard over the autumn term and are very proud to share their final performance video. We hope you enjoy our versions of Count On Me, Little Jesus Sweetly Sleep, Away In A Manger, We Wish You A Merry Christmas and A Million Dreams.
Class 11
Money, money, money!
In Class 1 we have started learning about the different values of coins. We have been matching coins to their numerical values, sorting coins, and using coins in a range of role play situations from a grocery shop to buying tickets for a journey into space!
Class 11
3 2 1… Blast off!
Children in Class 1 have had an astronomical start to our space topic this term! We have been reading facts about space and have learnt lots of new vocabulary. This week we have been practising using these new words in a range of role play activities.
Class 11
Dancing in pairs and circles in PE
In PE we have been practising a dance in pairs and in a circle. We had to count our steps and change direction along to the music. We had lots of fun and it was fantastic excersise too!