World Book Day

Today we celebrated World Book Day. We dressed up as words and then explored the Mr Men series of books by Roger Hargreaves. After reading a couple of stories including Mr Bump and Mr Grumpy, we designed our own Mr Men characters and wrote stories about them.

Cams

This half-term in Design and Technology we have been exploring and making Cams. We made explored existing products that used cams and then made a prototype. We then designed a moving toy, considering the shape of our cam carefully. We made the toys by backing and decorating shoe boxes and Read more…

Wear your Scarf to School Day

This week was Children’s Mental Health Week. At Harwood Park, we believe Mental wellbeing is essential for all children. In school we use SCARF (Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience and Friendship) to teach children about positive mental health. We finished the week by holding a ‘wear your scarf to school’ day’! Read more…

Christmas Buffet

This half term in DT, Class 13 have been planning a Christmas buffet. They had to consider traditional Christmas foods, allergies and other dietary needs as well as cost. They surveyed the class to find out their favourite Christmas buffet foods and planned how to make the most popular items. Read more…