Art & Design
Cute as a Button
Last week, class 12 designed a range of products based around the use of buttons. They researched and designed different ideas before we made Christmas cards, hair bobbles, present labels and Christmas tree decorations.
Last week, class 12 designed a range of products based around the use of buttons. They researched and designed different ideas before we made Christmas cards, hair bobbles, present labels and Christmas tree decorations.
Following our cold writes yesterday, we planned lots of ideas and feelings for our narrative based on the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. To ensure paragraphs and clear and cohesive, we focused on a setting or change in how the character feels at different parts of the story. We think Read more…
Class 11 had the very difficult task to work out the Fibonacci sequence for their reasoning this week. We looked at how the Italian mathematician Leonoardo Fibonacci noticed this pattern 8000 years ago. We explored how this pattern was shown in many objects around the world such as sunflowers, snail Read more…
One of the character values we are focussing on this term is also one of our school core values: kindness. With it being near Christmas, class 12 put a more giving twist on our advent calendar by thinking of 25 acts of kindness they could follow in and around school. Read more…
In Class 11 as part of our WW2 topic, we have created artistic work of someone affected by World War Two including soldiers and family members. Over the term, we have learnt how to sketch portraits of faces, practiced drawing facial features with emotions and added shading. We then used Read more…
Continuing our learning journey in science, today we looked at the final stage of the human life cycle, old age. There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about what happens in this stage. We sorted true and false cards based on our initial thoughts of what happens in this Read more…
Today as part of our science topic exploring the development of humans from birth to old age we focussed on the changes people go through as a baby. First we started by guessing some of our teachers from their baby pictures. This was quite a challenge. Why don’t you look Read more…
In Year 5, we have been learning about the human lifecycle and this week we have investigated how babies grow. We started by playing a game where we guessed which baby was which teacher, it was really hard! We then learnt how babies grow with height and weight and used Read more…
Today Josh really impressed both himself and his teachers in writing an impressive piece of independent writing in his special write. This was a huge achievement for Josh and the pride he had in his self showed incredible perseverance, something we strive to have at Harwood Park. We couldn’t help Read more…
Year 5 faced some tricky mathematical reasoning questions this week. The questions supported our knowledge of the ‘Finding a Pattern’ strategy and we used different resources to help us try and figure out how many Easter Eggs Tom’s family needed. Cooperation and teamwork skills were essential to share our understanding Read more…