Today, the whole school took part in an online reading event that attempted to set a new Guinness world record for the most people reading online in 12 hours as part of National Year of Reading. Year 1 joined author Rashmi Sirdeshpande and illustrator Nakul. We listened to Rashmi’s book Read more
Willows thoroughly enjoyed sharing their learning with their families yesterday. We demonstrated our knowledge of nouns, verbs and Kung-fu punctuation, before showing our parents our writing books. We then demonstrated our knowledge of seasons including singing our seasons song, before beginning our task of using different media to create trees Read more
In science this half-term, Y1 have been learning about seasons and weather. In forest school, we continued this learning using the story ‘The Leaf Man’. We read the story ‘The Leaf Man’ before completing various activities such as creating our own leaf men and searching for certain leaves that we Read more
A great time was had by all the children this morning at sports day. It was a pleasure to observe the determination, perseverance and resilience of the year 6 pupils this morning. They all worked so well together despite the heat and it was wonderful to watch them cheering each Read more
This week in Science, Year 1 have been learning a song about the different parts of a plant, along with actions to help them remember the function of each part. They labelled the parts of a flower and learned to identify each one. The children also explored the difference between Read more
Year 1 have begun their new Science topic on plants with an exciting bean experiment to investigate whether plants need water to grow. Over this half-term, we will observe and record changes over time, just like real scientists, and discuss why careful observation is important. We started by drawing flowers Read more
Today in DT, Year 1 created their final product – a healthy smoothie! We applied all the skills we’ve been learning and practising, including cutting, juicing, and blending, as well as using our taste-testing results to guide our choices. Working together with excellent teamwork, we successfully made our smoothies and, Read more
After winning the Rochdale Dance Festival, St Luke’s were invited to attend the Greater Manchester Dance Festival at The Edge in Wigan. During the day, the children watched professional dancers perform and took part in three different workshops, including contemporary and carnival. These sessions gave them the chance to try Read more
This week in science, we learnt all about animal diets. We explored three important terms: carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores. Carnivores are animals that eat meat, herbivores eat plants, and omnivores eat both plants and meat. Just like real scientists, we carried out our own research to learn more about what Read more
Our Year 1 Design and Technology learning has been full of excitement as we begin working towards making our own smoothies! 🍓🍌 So far, the children have been learning to identify a range of fruits and vegetables, as well as discovering where they grow around the world. Today, we focused Read more