Year 5 have made a fantastic start to their Science topic ‘Humans and animals overtime’. So far we have learnt: the theory of evolution and how it was discovered, how fossils are formed and provide evidence of evolution and animal kingdoms and how they have developed overtime. To help embed Read more
This half-term, Year 5 have been learning how to blanket-stitch in Design and Technology. We then used this skill to create a cushion of our own design. Although it was tricky, the children persevered and produced some fabulous pieces. Well done!
Well done to everyone who entered the St Luke’s egg decorating competition! All the entries were egg-cellent!! Today the School council children judged the competition, voting for one winner from each class. The children found it really difficult to judge due to so many fantastic displays but did come to Read more
This week, Year 5 have been revisiting and revising their knowledge of factions, decimals and percentages. To do this, they have taken part in a variety of fun tasks and challenges including code breakers, board games, reasoning loop questions and making/ using fortune tellers. We had lots of fun with Read more
This week, Year 5 began their new Science topic ‘Electrical Circuits’. Our first lesson was all about static electricity. We learnt how static electricity is created, why we feel static shock, when we see evidence of static electricity and how thunder and lightning is created. To support our understanding, we Read more
This week, Year have been creating art work for the hall display. As part of our Art topic ‘Every picture tells a story’, Year 5 really enjoyed studying the artist Banksy and so we decided to look at some of his most famous pieces in more detail. Banksy’s work is Read more
Year 5 were excited to create art work for a whole school competition this afternoon. For the competition, each year group has been given one of our Christian values to focus their art work on- the winning art from each year group will be displayed in our new entrance.
This week Year 5 have been celebrating World Book day. We have dressed up as Book characters, took part in a live lesson, wrote book reviews, designed a new book cover for a book we have enjoyed, made book marks, completed mindful colouring of some inspiring quotes from books, and Read more
Thursday 17th February was random acts of kindness day. This year our new Anti-bullying/ Kindness ambassadors helped to come up with some ‘Acts of kindness’ ideas that classes could take part in. Each class then chose a random act of kindness to complete. Reception made kindness cards for a friend Read more
This week in grammar, Year 5 have been looking at how we can alter sentences that use more than 2 verbs. We looked at various images and chose a noun and 2 verbs, then created a simple ‘and’ sentence using the vocabulary we had chosen. We then looked at how Read more