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…
In DT this half term, we’ve been studying foods from around the globe. We’ve sampled a variety of ingredients and researched recipes from a range of cultures. After selecting our favourite ingredients, cooking methods and utensils, we became culinary geniuses and rustled up the most delicious stir-fry known to humankind.
In Geography, we’ve been learning all about the water cycle. Did you know, we drink the very same water that dinosaurs drank? There is no such thing as ‘new’ water. We’ve been getting to grips with evaporation, condensation, precipitation and accumulation and we made some pretty brilliant water cycle replicas Read more…
A big well done to the Year 5/6 boys and girls who took part in the recent Dodgeball tournaments at Heywood Sports Village. You all represented our school brilliantly and did an amazing job!
Today in Classes 11 and 12, we joined with the rest of the country in marking Remembrance Day to remember those who had lost their lives at war in an effort to secure our futures. In assembly, we learnt all about why we have Remembrance Day and why we wear Read more…
As part of our work as a Rights Respecting School, we have today started work on the ‘OutRight’ campaign. The children have learnt about what Climate Change is and how this can affect the children’s rights. OutRight is UNICEF UK’s annual children’s rights campaign that empowers children and young people to speak Read more…
We’re reading The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. We read about the main character’s sister and were presented with the statement, ‘Gretel is an unpleasant character’. We know that humans are complex and the best authors make sure their characters are not 1 dimensional and so we Read more…
We had an amazing workshop today. Well-being Warriors came to help us understand the way in which social media can affect our lives in different ways. We discussed a range of positives to be taken from social media, but also considered the potential dangers. Our ‘digital footprint’ and age-related content Read more…
In order to learn more about World War Two’s impact on Heywood, we visited the Memorial Garden and went to the library to look at the Roll of Honour.
As part of our computing curriculum, we’ve been exploring how to be good citizens online. We’ve discussed a great deal about our online profile, our carbon footprint and how to maintain a healthy relationship with technology.