Harewood Junior School News

On Friday 15th March, Year 5 visited St George’s church to explore why Christians celebrate Easter and engaged in a range of activities.

We combined our termly ‘Healthy Active’ day with Comic Relief celebrations and all children competed in an inter-house obstacle course competition. The overall winning team with 136 obstacle laps completed are Hardwicke. Well done to everyone who took part – we had great fun.

Mid dodgeball, there was the D.E.A.R bell and so we stopped and read!

It was fabulous to welcome over 200 parents and carers into school for our World Book Day whole school breakfast and parent / child reading – it was fantastic to see so many lovely moments of families reading together – a wonderful start to the day!

Our school librarian Mrs Hughes is a voracious reader who loves to welcome children and parents into our school library. Click the tabs on the right for her video series, with the first episodes introducing our school library and a focus on classic texts and picture books.

It’s been a fantastic celebration of reading this week with a special author visit and class workshops from Jess Butterworth – author of our current Y4 class text ‘When the Mountains Roared’. It was fabulous to hear the inspiration and context behind the story, as well some fabulous tips for…

All classes have thoroughly enjoyed swapping with their peers in different year groups and enjoying the chance to both read and listen to other children – a thoroughly rewarding experience for all!

Please click on the tab to the right to read Mr Beardshaw-Brown’s writing club’s match reports of the Year 6 football team’s game against Churchdown Primary School. The students watched the game before making notes, drafting, editing and then publishing their work. The children’s Spring / Summer term project will…

Y4 enjoyed sharing their published ‘Explanation Texts’ with Year 3. The children carefully considered their audience as they drafted each section, considering the use of key features and their vocabulary choices carefully – great job!