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15/02/25

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13/02/25

Successful end of term art project for year six: children planned, designed and built these amazing Memories Boxes linked to our Oval history topic and our belonging driver.

12/02/25

Year six loved their visit from Steel today and asked some brilliant questions!#pshe

12/02/25

We loved our visit from Steel today, learning all about resilience and the importance of sleep, healthy diet, being active, hydration and showing gratitude (noticing glimmers). Can anyone beat Steel’s record of 757 burpees nonstop in under an hour?#pshe

12/02/25

As part of Safer Internet Day, year 2 explored a variety of dangers online and discussed how to respond to them. They had some excellent ideas and good knowledge of the safety features of various apps. They created posters to teach younger children about what they had learnt.

12/02/25

Amazing messages being given to the children this morning by the amazing gladiator Steel! What a fantastic morning we have ahead

11/02/25

Year six scientists dissecting hearts to understand how the circulatory system works.

11/02/25

Year six scientists dissecting hearts to understand how the circulatory system works.

11/02/25

Year six home learning designing posters for around school about how to keep safe online.

11/02/25

Year six historians exploring the Oval as part of their local history project, with an added extra of a tag rugby PE lesson!

11/02/25

Year six historians exploring the Oval as part of their local history project, with an added extra of a tag rugby PE lesson!

11/02/25

Team Dahl had a great science lesson on space and the stars with Mark the scientist yesterday (2).#science

11/02/25

Team Dahl had a great science lesson on space and the stars with Mark the scientist yesterday (1).#science

11/02/25

Marking Safer Internet Day with a visit from the charity Computer Friendly

10/02/25

Year 3 had a visit from Hands on Science and took part in a workshop on biological diversity.

07/02/25

This week in assembly we celebrated Martin Luther King day, reading about this inspiring activist who devoted his life to fighting for civil rights. We linked to other activists such as Nelson Mandela, Greta Thunberg, Malala and Rosa Parks; and to our value of respect.

07/02/25

A huge thank you to all the adults who came to visit us today to explain how their job uses maths.

07/02/25

Ladybirds have had a fantastic ! We have loved hearing about jobs that use numbers and dressing up! We are so inspired. We also made foot rulers to measure things in the classroom.

07/02/25

Our fourth visitor of the day was Tendaii, a train and air engineer. Our Y6’s were fascinated by his models and recognised how scale factors work in producing drafts of projects.

07/02/25

Our third visitor of the day was Matt who works in the sports field. He explained to our Y6’s how fractions, decimals and percentages play a part in making predictions about different sporting events.

07/02/25

Our second visitor of the day was Business Analyst Andreii who spoke to our Y6’s about how algebra and coding is used in his IT role. pic.twitter.com/g7qgZWX25k

07/02/25

Our first visitor of the day was Nurse Helen who works at treating cancer patients. Our Y6’s enjoyed learning about why measuring is particularly crucial in this field. pic.twitter.com/IG2nvg7xEC

07/02/25

Happy Number Day from Year 3! pic.twitter.com/bS3fxp7e8P

06/02/25

Aren’t we lucky to have such lovely, kind parents in our Year 1 class? We are so appreciative of these yummy sweet treats! pic.twitter.com/IEp8f6rkyO

04/02/25

Lunar new year celebrations last week pic.twitter.com/GAQmtKUjeU

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Harpenden Academy on Tour - Science Week!

Posted on 13/03/2019

Science Week—Harpenden Academy on Tour

EYFS Reception Class

Ducklings

As part of our topic on ‘The Ugly Duckling’ Ladybird Class has had the privilege of hatching ducks! We now have:

Leicester , Woody, Jemima  & Forest 

The children have loved learning about how ducklings hatch and how to care for them! 

Bubbles

Having fun during Science Week, answering all of our bubble questions that we generated in Year 1 and Reception.

Key Stage 1—Year 1 and Year 2

At Woodside Farm we saw an unusual bird called a Rhea, a Gloucester Old Spot Pig, and a Shetland Pony naming but a few. The children got to handle a Chinchilla, a Bearded Dragon, a Chick and a Corn Snake. Children then got the opportunity to go on a real working tractor which took the children on a journey around the farm.

Year 3

Kipling & Potter Class have really enjoyed Science Week. We have taken every       opportunity to incorporate science into all aspects of our learning. In English, we have started to look at Poems about Aliens, Maths we have looking at different graphs and been using them in science. The Space Centre was a great learning experience and we learnt even more about the universe around us.

Year 4 Austen Class Rocket into Science Week!

Science Week has been an exciting one!  We started the week by making our very own periscopes. We then combined our English and Science learning to write an   explanation about how a periscope works.  I was very impressed with the children’s use of language and the structure of their explanations. We have some                   sophisticated writers in Year 4!

Our trip to the Space Centre on Wednesday was definitely the highlight of our week.  The children were completely inspired by the environment and were like sponges absorbing all the facts around them!

Year 5

Dahl Class had an amazing time at the National Space Centre. I think a firm favourite was the Planetarium which generated a lot of enquiry-based questions when we got back to class!

Year 6

Shakespeare class had a wonderful time at the Space Centre learning lots of mind-boggling and mind-blowing facts about space. Back down to Earth with a BANG yesterday, they wrote extremely persuasive leaflets advertising the educational tourist attraction!

 

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