Today, Year 2 were very lucky to take part in a special workshop called ‘Circus Sparks’ with Mick from Skylight Circus Arts. The aim of the sessions is to use circus skills to promote confidence in children. Today, we learnt balancing skills with feathers, plate spinning and tricks, and began Read more
This week St Luke’s celebrated World Mental Health Day. Children came to school dressed in Yellow and raised money for YoungMinds. The children also took part in various activities throughout the day based on ‘The 5 Ways To Wellbeing’. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far, we have Read more
As part of our topic ‘The Great Fire of London’ the children have been learning about fire safety and why The Great Fire of London spread so quickly. This week we had some special visitors come to school to help us with our learning. Some came into our classroom to Read more
In our maths lessons this week, we have been looking at how to partition numbers. We used Base 10 and Part-whole models to help us learn how to partition numbers in different ways.
This week, Year 2 began their History topic ‘The Great Fire Of London’. Our first lesson was all about fire safety. We began the lesson by talking about and spotting dangers around fire and thinking about where would and wouldn’t be a good place to start a camp fire. As Read more
What a fantastic first week back we have had in Elm! We have refreshed our memory of place value through Maths games, drew our favourite stuffed toys in art, spent time with our friends in Kayden’s garden, wrote new prayers for our prayer jar, sang songs, created art in memory Read more
On Monday morning, Year 5 visited New House Academy. We spent the morning in the Design and Technology department where we learnt about the various aspects taught there and were able to see some of the creations made. We then got the chance to create our own work. Pine created Read more
Last week, Year 5 made the most of the sun with a trip to Queen’s Park for our geography fieldwork. The children worked in pairs to find a suitable location for a picnic taking a number of factors into consideration, such as safety, suitable grounds, surrounding nature, weather etc. We Read more
This half-term Year 5 are doing yoga as part of their PE lesson. So far Michelle has taught us about having a positive mindset, balancing and creating yoga poses. We are really enjoying the sessions.
This week Year 5 have had a special visit from Emma and her crazy creatures. As our current Science topic is ‘Humans and animals overtime’, Emma came to not only to show us her fantastic animals, but also to teach us some amazing facts about them, including their animal kingdoms, Read more