Pumpkin Party Horrors

A school full of little horrors - that is the sight that greeted anyone brave enough to come along to the annual PTA Pumpkin Party. Once again the PTA had pulled out all the stops to put on a frightfully good do! 

The costumes and make up this year were amazing. We also had a pumpkin carving competition and Superworm providing the terrifying tunes.

Thank you to everyone who came along and helped make the event such a success. It was great to see so many people having a great time.

An Autumn Adventure by Class One

Class One had an autumn adventure when they went for a walk in the woods last week.

We talked about how we could share our adventure with lots of people and decided to do a blog.

This is Class One’s first ever blog. All the children contributed by choosing the photographs and thinking carefully about what they wanted to say.

We have been learning about storytelling so Scarlett thought it would be a good idea to tell a story about our adventure. Some of the children chose to report their contribution on the iPad and some used the digital voice recorder. All of them had a go at writing part, or all of what they wanted to say.

This is the story we wrote, along with the pictures we chose.

 

Once upon a time Class One went for a walk in the woods.

 

 

The children ran around finding leaves and put them in bags to take back to school. They also took photographs of each other and the things they saw around them.

 

 

 

 

Lots of them were very excited to help pull Freddie’s cart. The cart was also very useful for carrying leaves.

 

 

On the way back to school they found a mysterious tunnel with a bridge over the top. They thought about who might live in the tunnel under the bridge.

 

 

At the end of the walk they found a log and tree branches. They all found a space and had their photograph taken. It was fun!

 

 

When they got back to school they looked at all the beautiful leaves they had found. They thought about the colours and saved part of the leaves so they could mix their own colours and make leaf prints.

 

 

They also shared the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff (because they thought maybe a Troll had lived under the bridge they crossed on the walk) and they used puppets to retell the story.

Class One had a fantastic time investigating all the autumn things they found on their walk and the things they have brought from home for the investigation table.

 

The end.

We hope you enjoyed our story.

Scarecrow Festival ~ Class 2

Class 2 have been thinking about how important scarecrows can be to the harvest. We have been reading stories about scarecrows and drawing pictures of scarecrows in our work on symmetry in maths. As we were all so interested in scarecrows we decided to have a go at making our own!

Here are some pictures showing how we made them.

 



 We made their heads out of an old sack and we had to stuff the clothes full of hay.

 



 

He is looking good Leo!

 

We had to work hard and solve lots of problems along the way but I am sure you will agree that..

 

...they look brilliant!

 

Well done Class 2, you did a great job.

 



The Great Harvest Bake Off

Never mind Nancy and her fancy windmill - here at Harewood we really know how to bake!

 During the week everyone had been bringing in their contribution for our ingredients - that meant we had more than enough to bake with today. Mrs.Wraighte worked with our willing parents to help everyone in school bake something to share at our Harvest celebration.

 The children really enjoyed preparing for the celebration. Our service will start at 2.30pm on Friday - so if you want to sample our handiwork make sure you come along ......

 ...although we can't guarantee there'll be any left!!