Following the recent media coverage about racist comments made towards members of the England football team, Year 5 pulled away from our usual timetable to discuss our thoughts, feelings and opinions on racism and to learn more about what we can do as individuals to help make a change. I Read more…
Today we had lots of fun celebrating England getting to the final of the Euros. We designed and decorated our gingerbread men in football kits, completed football themed activities, ate party food and played football (in the rain!).
Over the last couple of weeks, Year 5 have been working together to create some fantastic collage Art, which is proudly being displayed in the school hall. The children began working in pairs to create colourful “doodles” using pastels and water colours and some black and white pieces for contrast. Read more…
A fantastic 1st day back for Year 5! We have started to identify the features and shapes of a text in English, ready to write our own informative non-chronological report about an animal. We looked at angles in maths and have been introduced to using a protractor. We have worked Read more…
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…