Harewood Junior School News

Happy World Book Day! It was fantastic to welcome Emma Swan, a writer, actor, award-winning comedian and West End star of Horrible Histories. The children loved her fantastic, highly interactive assemblies and were delighted to receive their traditional ‘book gift’ from school; a copy of Emma’s yet to be published…

Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed one of the highlights of the year – our Bristol trip to ‘We the Curious!’ The children had an incredible time exploring this superb venue, learning about a wide range of interactive science, computing and geography activities, culminating in a superb ‘climate change’ workshop where the…

In gymnastics, we have been looking at balances and partner balances as well as different types of rolls. The children have worked in partners beginning to create a sequence thinking about their transitions.

Mr Beardshaw-Brown delivered two Safer Internet Day assemblies; LKS2 focused on determining the differences between facts and opinions and how to check the validity of online information; whilst UKS2 explored digital footprints and recent law changes regarding sending and distributing images online. This week, each year group will also be…

For our science lesson exploring the planets in our solar system, we went on a classroom scavenger hunt to find 3 key facts about each planet in our solar system.

Wow! Firstly, a huge well done to the children today who stood up with confidence in assembly in front of all of their peers to deliver their speeches. Every single one of them did a fantastic job and should be so proud of themselves.