This week, St Luke’s are celebrating Random acts of Kindness day. As part of the activities, we decided to spread kindness to our linked care-home Springbank. Some children from KS2, selected for excellent behaviour and attitudes to learning this half-term, attended the care-home to have ‘a cake and a chat’ Read more…
This week, Year 1 have been super grammarsauruses. They have been learning about two different types of nouns. We have learnt actions for each to help us remember them, sorted words and images into proper nouns, common nouns or not a noun, played games to test our knowledge and completed Read more…
In art, year 1 have been learning about and creating 3D art. This week, in forest school, we created our own 3D sculptures, of an animal of our choice, using clay and natural materials. After working so hard in lessons today, we also had some free time exploring forest school Read more…
This half-term, Year 1 are going to be writing a travel journal. Yesterday we learnt about what a travel journal is and watched a travel vlog to help us gather ideas about the type of things we will write about. Today we watched videos about safaris so we could remember Read more…
Today, Year 1 had a fab Christmas party. We ate party food, played party games, sang, danced and even had a special visit from Father Christmas, who brought us all a gift. Merry Christmas to all our Year 1 Children and their families. We hope you have a fabulous half-term.
In our ‘Reflective Friday’ worship, we often use something called ‘Picture news’. This is a discussion based on something that is currently in the news and it links both with the Bible and Christian values, and our British values. We decided to take part in the picture news Christmas challenge, Read more…
Today Year 1 learnt all about Christingle, including how it began and what each part of the Christingle represents. They then made their own to take home.
In history, we have been learning about and comparing toys of past and present. Today, our classroom was set up to look like a toy museum. We used post-it notes to ask questions about the toys and discussed how we thought they were used. We then spent some time playing Read more…
Thank you to everyone who came to school dressed for our spotty theme and made a donation to Children in Need. Each class learnt more about the charity, discussed the importance of charities and how we can play our part in helping others, as well as additional activities.
Year 1 are starting a new writing unit based on the story ‘The 3 Little Pigs’. Today we explored the story by reading it, talking about the vocabulary (including nouns, verbs and adjectives) and discussed ideas of how we could improve the story using our fantastic adjective ideas. We then Read more…