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17/01/25

Ladybirds had a fantastic visit to Little City this week. We were able to role play as lots of jobs within our community. We had hairdressers, builders, shop assistants and police officers. It was a very busy morning! pic.twitter.com/922Y0b79Wb

17/01/25

Ladybirds have been exploring emergency services and using junk modelling to create our own emergency vehicles. We have added lights, wheels and even repeating patterns to bring them to life! pic.twitter.com/4llUwySboG

13/01/25

Year 3 scientists exploring pushes and pulls as part of our new forces unit. pic.twitter.com/tLuyiqQ9Es

18/12/24

Whole school cinema trip to the gorgeous Odyssey theatre in St Albans to see Santa Claus. pic.twitter.com/Mt6bc9t78r

18/12/24

Year six designers have completed their DT project using complex switches and circuits to create buggies. pic.twitter.com/NzaIFfytqD

13/12/24

Team Dahl had a very successful PE dance lesson today as the children performed (only their 2nd full attempt) a dance routine to ‘Proud’ by Heather Small! pic.twitter.com/AfGeQWQQiS

11/12/24

Ladybirds have been learning about the Christmas Story in R.E. Today we drew our favourite characters in the story using Freeform on the iPad. We were so focused on our learning and loved learning new skills. pic.twitter.com/2QV0BzjeGX

10/12/24

Year 3 had their final swimming lesson for this term today. # healthylifestyle pic.twitter.com/wHwLW5WNVb

09/12/24

Year six dancers creating routines to depict prejudice and discrimination- varying height, speed, flow and apparatus to show power over. pic.twitter.com/c9bmJCstlf

09/12/24

Year six Christingle army! pic.twitter.com/3kXaBBzBmP

09/12/24

Year six designers building their buggies pic.twitter.com/ppEUtDYwr4

09/12/24

Year six designers building their buggies… pic.twitter.com/mREyGctEoA

04/12/24

It’s feeling very festive in school with our wonderful winter festival display and first ever tree on the roof! pic.twitter.com/EHOr4QFsWS

04/12/24

A celebration of winter festivals to greet our children and parents…#experiences pic.twitter.com/bp4cRT731l

04/12/24

Ladybirds have been making challah bread linked to our learning about Hanukkah this week. We learned so many new skills such as kneading and plaiting! pic.twitter.com/f7TUuV1FWh

02/12/24

Last week’s beautiful cross country sunset run pic.twitter.com/YItuPE8qOz

02/12/24

Year six writers are loving our new unit: persuasive speeches. We have been exploring a range of famous speeches from the Talking History book and using our reading fluency skills to perform them passionately. pic.twitter.com/kgnuDl1gqH

02/12/24

Year six working hard on their flexibility Challenges as part of their health-related fitness unit. They enjoyed considering what sports would require each type of flexibility. pic.twitter.com/8GJuiCC8Fa

28/11/24

Team Dahl was lucky enough to be visited by Jump today who’ve come in to teach one of our RE lessons on the Christmas Story!#RE pic.twitter.com/UwwrmWz8me

20/11/24

Year six athletes enjoying a visit from a local boxing club linked to their health-related fitness unit. pic.twitter.com/PGjSXy8rLE

20/11/24

Year six athletes enjoying a visit from a local boxing club linked to their health-related fitness unit. pic.twitter.com/H9dVnwUXhm

20/11/24

Why not read a book celebrating disability and linked to our current PSHE topic: Celebrating Difference. pic.twitter.com/SRYm6HipoA

20/11/24

Amazing resilience and commitment from those cross country runners who turned up to run in the snowy conditions yesterday! What a beautiful and invigorating start to the day. pic.twitter.com/tkvYRSU9kk

20/11/24

Year six athletes are really enjoying their health-related fitness unit and all challenged themselves to do the blue challenge at each cardio station today. pic.twitter.com/kPUDUWUPnQ

20/11/24

Year six athletes are really enjoying their health-related fitness unit and all challenged themselves to do the blue challenge at each cardio station today. pic.twitter.com/JDZotjfJXt

Parent Coffee Mornings

Coffee morning 1

All parents are welcome to come for a Friday morning coffee. There is always a short presentation (20 minutes). These include ways to really help support your child's learning at school, parenting advice and support and information about a wide range of things from safety to spellings and maths to mindfulness and more!

Friday mornings are always fun and very informal. There is lots of time to ask questions, share experiences and find out what is happening in school.

Mums, Dads, Grandparents, Carers, Aunties, Uncles and friends of the family are ALL welcome

Why come in for a coffee morning?

  • meet other parents
  • chat to your friends
  • celebrate that it is Friday
  • learn something new
  • feel involved in school life and up to date with what's going on
  • have some time just for you and feel great!

Please email the school office if you have a suggestion for future topics.

Date Title of Coffee Morning Powerpoint (click on ppt to download) Parent Suggestions from Session
4th November 2022

A Journey through school at Harpenden Academy

Mrs Davies

 3  
11th November 2022

The link between reading, academic success and wellbeing and how parents can help

Mrs Watson

 1
  • share year group bookmarks (with range of questions with parent volunteer readers.
  • create a book swap station outside school to engage with the parent community (like at the train station).
  •  other ways to support children with swapping books.
  • remind parents that we are a healthy school so rather than bring in birthday treats, please donate a book to your class.
  • next term have a different reading activity to complete each week which is the same across the school eg. reading a picture to give all parents a range of ideas for reading with your child.
18th November 2022

Play & Lunch times

Mrs Marchment & Mrs Ross

 No ppt  
25th November 2022

Cultural Capital and expanding children's horizons

Mrs Withers

 Slide
  • Parents to support with diverse issues in school – Mrs Withers to create Focus Group in New Year
  • Resources and ways to support children in understanding LGBTQ+ issues in a child friendly way
  • Children love the workshops so more of those please 
  • Classical music – seeing orchestra
  • Theatre trips and shows like the Jack and the Beanstalk in Autumn
  • Updating of books to support children’s understanding of diversity
  • Anti-racism Schools Award?
2nd December 2022

Online Safety

Mrs Curnow/Police TBC

    
16th December 2022

Free places to go around London 

Mrs Davies

 LD  
27th January 2023 PE at Harpenden Academy PE
  • Maintain Gold School games mark.
  • PE moderation and professional discussion to aid assessment of pupils
  • Continue and embed use of Concept Descriptors to inform assessment to ensure sustained progress in PE.
  • To use ipads as tool to aid the learning in PE.
  • To ensure we are being more sustainable in PE, we send all sporting communication via Edulink.
  • Support the wellbeing of pupils we are offering a range of opportunities to enjoy physical activity.
3rd February 2023 Travel Plan Travel
  • Spring and Summer, LA run initiatives.
  • Promote the park and stride.
  • Need to see an increase in families using the park and stride to reach silver.
  • Staff and pupil survey.
3rd March 2023 Apps we use in School Eharvey  
19th May 2023 Behaviour Support Procedures

Behaviour coffee morning (002)

Behaviour Support Summary

  
10th November 2023 Online Safety Workshop Online Safety  
17th November 2023 Sustainability Workshop Sustainability  
24th November 2023 Computing and New Technology New Technology  
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