Sunshine after the rain ☔🌞
It might have rained and rained last week but there has been plenty of sunshine created inside school with all the excitement Eid celebrations have brought with them for children and staff. I know everyone loved seeing the smart, exquisite Eid clothes that children wore when they came back to school.
Every class had planned a day full of fun, celebration, and...
Read MoreThe joy of poetry ✍
Classes right across school are really embracing the opportunity to focus on poetry and all the fun and enjoyment that a poem can bring. Thank you to Mrs Lee our Deputy Headteacher for championing poetry and reminding us of what this genre can offer. I know all classes enjoyed the 'virtual' assembly Mrs Lee put together last week.
Poetry can enable us to put down our...
Catching up
Another week whizzed by, and I know from the feedback I have heard in our SLT meeting that the Harehills Primary staff team are finding so many ways of using every minute to help children catch up on the learning they have missed due to lockdown.
We have made sure that children are happy and ready to learn, with our wonderful learning mentors checking in with families and...
Read MoreA sporty week 🏊♀️🏊♂️🏃♂️
The sun shone on most days last week and it was wonderful to see our children back in school at the start of the summer term. It has certainly been a sporty week. Throughout the last year since coronavirus impacted on whether school was open or not, we have put an emphasis on the importance of physical activity and its link to health and...
Read MoreA sense of wellbeing
We have reached the end of another very positive week at HPS. It might only be the end of three full weeks with everyone back in school, but there is sense of calm wherever I go, and I can see children who look so content and engaged in whatever they are doing. ,p> I really enjoy spending time at the gates at the start of the day and when children go home because it gives...
Read MoreA very happy week 😁
It gave me and the staff team so much pleasure last week to see so many very happy children returning to school after another period of home learning. We have been delighted to see how quickly everyone has remembered all the routines and great to see the children so smart in their school uniform.
I know that staff have planned lots of wonderful activities to help the...
Read MoreReady, set, go - Monday 8th March is 'back to school day'
We have reached the end of this period of school closure and we are very much looking forward to seeing all the children bounce back into school this week. It will be wonderful to have all staff back in every day again as well. I know it will help us all to feel more optimistic about the future when we get back to our routines and...
Read MoreA light at the end of a very long tunnel
Last Friday it was seven years since I got the job as Headteacher of Harehills Primary School and I never could have foreseen I would be leading a school during a national pandemic! What a journey we have all been on over the last seven years - together we have achieved so much 😊
A brand-new half term and it does feel like we can see some light at...
Read MoreA message of thanks
We have reached the end of this half term and another six weeks of lockdown. It has been a half term that has thrown everything at us including, severe weather, lateral flow testing of staff, endless risk assessments - the list goes on! And through it all the spirit of the HPS family has shone brightly, helping everyone to get through even the most difficult of days. Thank...
Read MoreTesting times
Last week was another week that has asked a lot of us all, including a snow closure day, but that hasn't stop anything from being completed at school👍
Well done to everyone who has made mass lateral flow testing at HPS run so smoothly. A huge thank you to our Covid-19 Coordinators, Mrs Willshaw, Mrs Smith, and Mr Wood for getting this up and running and to every member of...
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