This week, Year 4 had a visit from the illustrator Chris Mould. He told the children about how he became an illustrator, the books he has drawn for and some projects he has been working on. He has drawn the images for the book ‘The Iron Man’ which we read Read more…
As part of their Graphic Novel Project, Year 4 went to Rochdale Town Hall. We took part in an exciting trail to look at different rooms and had passwords and riddles to solve along the way. We looked at the outside of the building to see the gargoyles and grotesques Read more…
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 Class 10, we completed our RE assessment task on why Jesus is inspirational to Christians. During this unit, we have also focused on people who are inspirational to us. Today, we created collages using key words to describe Jesus and our own inspirational people.
A HUGE well done to all the children in Class 10 who performed the Polar Express so fabulously in our KS2 Carol Concert. A special shout out to Paul the Conductor who played the role perfectly and did our class proud!
This week in Computing, it has been the Hour of Code. Hour of Code free introduction to computer science through fun activities and videos for learners of all skill levels. This year’s celebration of both coding and AI is supported by over 400 partners, 20,000 educators, and 58,000 volunteers. We Read more…
This week in Computing, we took on the Bebras Challenge. The Bebras Computing Challenge introduces computational thinking to students. In pairs, children had to answer puzzle questions that focus on computational and logical thinking.
Today we explored how the Viking era came to an end. We listened attentively to the story of Harold Godwinson, the Duke of Normandy and Harold Hardrada and the Battle of Stamford Bridge and the Battle of Hastings. We then had the task of reordering the events and creating these Read more…
Continuing on with our DT project, this week it was time to make the pizza we’d designed. Miss Wolf managed to get ALL the ingredients we wanted so we could make our pizza as perfectly as we’d designed. To finish off the afternoon, we were then able to eat our Read more…
This week in RE we explored Bible stories centred around Jesus and discussed their importance to Christians. Specifically, we read Gospels by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and thought about why these gospels were ‘good news’ to Christians. We finished off by creating freeze frames of different Bible stories. Can Read more…