In computing this half-term, Year 5 have been creating their own games. They have analysed other games, designed settings and themes, designed characters, changed animations and sounds that their character makes, written instructions and evaluated their peers’ games to help future designs. We are really impressed with their completed games! Read more…
This week the children completed postcards of hope. They coloured in the front of the cards and wrote messages of hope on the back. These were given to us from Morrisons, who will be distributing them with home deliveries and to various places such as Old people’s home. Morrisons also Read more…
In Year 5, we have been learning about what happens to our body as we get older. Last week we learnt about how we change from childhood to early adulthood through puberty, and how puberty occurs in animals too. This week we looked at changes from early adulthood to old Read more…
This week in Science, Year 5 have been investigating ‘Can you clean dirty water?’ We began the week by learning the processes of separating mixtures. This included sieving, filtering and evaporating. We then worked in groups to complete a pre-investigation, in which we used our new knowledge to try to Read more…
Due to a fantastic return to school this half-term, Year 5 were treated to a fun day. Easter colouring, making cards, an Easter egg hunt and a special visitor called Roxy (Mrs Steele’s dog) We finished the day with some party food and a film for all those children who Read more…
Today St Luke’s celebrated Red Nose Day. Children came to School in their own clothes with crazy hair to raise money for Comic Relief. They all looked fantastic. The children also completed Red Nose Day activities and had some well-being time in class, focussing on laughter. Thank you to everyone Read more…
Today was World Book Day at St Luke’s. From Cindy Lou to Aliens where underpants to King Henry VIII (a perfect fit for our theme ‘Off With Her Head’), the children all looked fantastic. Year 5 have taken part in lots of Book Day activities including online workshops with authors Read more…
A huge thank you to all of the fantastic, kind businesses who donated to our raffle or gave cash donations to help us raise funds for Christmas activities for the children after a difficult year. We hope you enjoy looking at the pictures of the smiles you put on the Read more…
Wow what a fantastic, fun week we have had in Juniper! We have made Christmas cards and calendars, took part in Christmas grammar and maths challenges, took part in a spelling bee with the other year 5 class and year 6, learnt how to draw the grinch, made s’mores and Read more…
Well done to all of our 40 Christmas raffle winners! We hope you enjoy the fantastic prizes. A huge thank you to everyone who bought tickets, we have raised an amazing £1133! This money will be put towards the children’s activities.