Class 5
International Maths Day
Children in class 5 enjoyed ‘International Maths Day’ we played lots of different maths games they included going forwards and backwards, also working out number problems to be able to move on in the games!
Class 5
World Book Day
Today in class 5, we celebrated world book day! We made bookmarks, our own books looking at the features of a book, and made character story spoons.
Class 10
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…
Class 5
Queen Elizabeth I
In class 5, Children looked at Queen Elizabeth I in this lesson. We explored places she used to live, who her father was and that her dad Henry VIII wasn’t nice to her! We discovered that she went to jail in the Tower of London. She became the queen after Read more…
Class 5
Monarchs from the past- Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
Today we discovered some Kings and Queens from the past. We looked further into the life of Queen Elizabeth II and who she was and what her life looked like. We then put her life events into order on a timeline as a class and reviewed what happened within her Read more…
Class 5
Subtraction
We have been using lots of different strategies to help us subtract in class 5. We have used lots on hands on concrete materials to help us count and subtract numbers, along with using tens frames, part-whole models and number sentences where we have found the missing number bonds.
Class 5
Why did Monarchs build castles?
In history, class 5 have been learning about kings queens and Castles. We looked at the features of a castle and why they they were built. We discovered that castles were built to protect people of a high status such as kings and queens and they were a reflection upon Read more…
Class 5
Why is sleep important?
This week in RHE we have talked about sleep and why it is so important. We need sleep so our bodies can rest and grow. We also discussed how we might know our bodies are tired, such as being grumpy, having no energy and yawning. We all discussed what kind Read more…
Class 5
Bee- Bots
The children have been learning how to correctly program a ‘Bee-Bot’ The children had to pick a toy in the pretend toy shop and use the arrows and other function buttons such as ‘go’ to correctly program the Bee-Bot so it moves in the correct direction to land on the Read more…