During the spring term, class 7 planted their very own sunflower seeds during their science lesson! Over the past few weeks, we have been watching them grow, which has been very exciting! This week, the children got to plant their sunflowers in the allotment so that they had more room Read more…
This term, class 7 have been looking at the artwork of Henri Rousseau. This week, we have been practicing collaging, using different materials and paper to create texture.
This half term, we have been learning about sandwiches in D&T. We have looked at healthy options and unhealthy options, we have tried different sandwiches and evaluated them and we have planned our own sandwiches ready for making them! We had to decide what bread we wanted, what filling and Read more…
Today, class 7 learned about ‘branch databases.’ We played some fun games of ‘guess who’ in pairs using YES/NO questions to try and guess the vegetable or musical instrument.
Today for world book day, class 7 enjoyed lots of vocabulary activities. One of these activities involved a class competition where the children had to work in table groups to see who could find the most synonyms for their word! Well done red table with 18 synonyms!
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…
For Safer Internet Day, class 7 looked at the different ways to create a ‘positive digital footprint’. We made a poster about this and then discussed our own digital footprints – thinking about our online use and how we can stay safe online.
This week in computing, we have been looking at different methods of communication and thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of them.
This unit in Art, we have been studying Georgia O’Keeffe. This week, we have been practicing our observational drawing skills using real flowers. We focused on the shapes and lines that we could see in order to help us.
