Harthill Primary School

Phew! After a hunt around the whole school and speaking to witnesses, Cherry have found Mrs McGrath's missing bag! After reading 'The Queen's hat' last week, they will now be writing their own story called 'Mrs McGrath's bag'. Well done Cherry!

Hawthorn had a fabulous time on their RE inspired visit before the Easter break. We were treated to a tour of Sheffield Mosque followed by a trip to Sheffield Cathedral where the children made their own clay keepsakes. As always, the children were a credit to the school and made us very proud.

Although a chilly start to the trip, Birch class showed their resilience and ventured around the park developing their sketching skills and drawing techniques. The children shared their favourite sculpture and artist with a great understanding of the emotions each sculpture captured. The afternoon was creative in the screen print workshop and the children completed some fantastic nature prints using leaves that they had collected on their morning walk. Birch class had a fabu

Willow have had fun participating in many workshops this week including poetry, Chinese calligraphy and Chinese arts and crafts.

We've been celebrating Chinese New Year all week and doing various fun activities through out, such as taking part in a live assembly, making paper lanterns and doing exercises that are typical for children at school in China. Today Sycamore learned a new skill - Chinese calligraphy! We found out about the history of Chinese characters for writing and had a go writing our own using special calligraphy brushes and ink on rice paper. Though it was quite tricky (and messy) we al

Birch class were extremely excited to be invited to experience Skills Street at Gulliver's Valley and to meet some of the Royal Family in person! The children were astonished that they could speak to their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, who asked them questions and joined in with their activities. A very big thank you to all the staff at Skills Street for inviting the children to learn about the jobs and skills available in their community. But, also fo

Birch Class were excited to meet their linking school class from St Ann's Primary School. They travelled to Clifton Park Museum to meet them and experienced an interactive exhibition to learn about themselves and others who live and work in their home town, Rotherham. It was wonderful to meet the children in person after learning about them through the work that the children had exchanged by post. All of the children and adults learnt more about each school, interests and the

Doctors, Authors, Pilot, Cartoonist, Car Designer, Accountant, Child Carers, Teachers, Gymnasts, Footballers, You Tubers and Fashions Designers are all the future aspirations of the young people at Harthill. Birch Class had a wonderful day coming to school dressed in their future career clothes. The children told each other about their future aspirations, inspiring each other to follow their dreams!

The children all looked amazing dressed in outfits linked to what they would like their future career to be. We had a wide range of dreams from vets to footballers and pharmacists to pilots. It was great to see how inspired the children were and how much they already knew about their chosen careers.

The children in Hawthorn thoroughly enjoyed their Times Table Rock Star day. As you can see from the pictures, they all got involved, dressing up as rock stars and completed no less that 3 battles throughout the day. Well done all of you!

First day back in the icy wind and Birch Class went to the Jubilee Meadow in search for a missing Polar Bear. It was freezing on the top of the hill by the trees, but the view of the valley was incredible! The children huddled together to find out if they could get warm together and realised how cold it could be for a lonely polar bear.

Birch became mechanical engineers in Autumn Term. During the Lego workshop they learnt how to build a helicopter using a motor as well as programming software to make it move with sound and pictures.

Sycamore and Cherry visited All Hallows Church today as part of our RE learning. Reverend Gary told us all about how the church is used, the features of the church and the special jobs he does. We also got to see some of his special clothes and even try them on!

This week we have experiences sub zero temperatures and have noticed lots of changes to our weather and the outdoor environment. We found ice in our mud kitchen area and we decided to fill some different vessels overnight to see what would happen. We tried to submerge items into the water to freeze over night and found that some would float! We used tools to break the ice and moved things into the sun to thaw.

To celebrate Diwali we created bright and colourful rangoli patterns. We used paper plates and oil pastels to create Diya lamps. We used buttons to count out different amounts into colourful Rangoli patterns in our tough tray. Mrs Hamilton used her cooking skills and a great recipe to make coconut Burfi. Once it had cooled and set we all had a taste! We all enjoyed our afternoon celebrating Diwali. We finished our day by taking part in some Diwali dancing in the hall where we

Our Y5s had an amazing day at Skills Street. They worked in teams to design and build a house and construct bridges; practised CPR and found out about the 350 different jobs in the health and social care sectors; boarded a plane to Cairns and became experts on the role of cabin crew and pilots. Finally, they spent time designing robots of the future and investigating the many job roles within the engineering firm, Gripple. We all had a fabulous day.

Year 6 visited Crucial Crew where they found out all about water safety, how to contact the emergency services, hoax calls, hate crime and they even took part in a mock trial at a magistrates court. They had a fabulous time and learnt a lot from an exceptional group of emergency service personnel.

The children in Hawthorn had a fabulous time earlier this week visiting Kiveton Library. We were able to spend time choosing and reading...

We had a lovely time in Hawthorn during our transition week. We focused on the book 'Mixed' by Arree Chung which links well with our...

It has been fabulous to meet and spend time with the children in our new classroom. We have learnt about each other and how special we...