Year 6 have had the chance to take part in many different activities during our prayer hunt, giving us the opportunity to pray, reflect, think of others and also have time to think about ourselves and others. Have a look at some of the activities we’ve taken part in: Read more…
Throughout our Art unit this half term, we have looked at the work of a number of famous artists. After studying them, we have begun to develop ideas for our own pieces, based on the work we have been looking at. Our own pieces will be a recreation of Read more…
As part of the build up to our Harvest festival celebrations, the St. Luke’s community have pulled together to donate tins and foods for Heywood Food Bank. Children and families have kindly brought donations into school over the last few weeks and have provided the food bank with valuable Read more…
As a follow on from Hello Yellow on Monday, Year 6 looked at how they could express the 5 ways to wellbeing through art. They used a piece by Lubaini Himid, named Five, to inspire their use of colours, tones, shapes and lines. They also applied the skills they Read more…
As part of our Online Safety topic, Year 6 recorded their screen time and activity time across a week. We then looked at creating fields before adding the class data to a database. Finally, we were able to analyse the data by creating a range of graphs and Read more…
This morning we have taken part in an amazing science show. We learnt lots of new things about materials and the different things they can do. A few of us came up to the front to help the scientist carry out his experiments. We all especially loved the exploding experiment Read more…
During our topic on Particles and Chemical Reactions, we looked at setting up an experiment to test how long it takes for sugar to dissolve in water. We had a control group and then planned how we could incorporate different variables to change and investigate how to speed up or Read more…
As part of our RE topic, Year 6 discussed what they think a soul is, where it comes from, what happens to it when we die and what it looks like. The children had some fantastic and mature ideas and were able to both articulate their own thoughts and ask Read more…
As part of Coding week, Year 6 looked at creating their own games on Scratch. The children used brief guides and their own coding knowledge to create one of three games: tennis, archery or cycling. They were able to write lines of code using sensing blocks, variables and Read more…
In Year 6, we looked at how we can improve our teamwork. Activity The challenge was to build a bridge to span 30 cm using only newspaper and tape or art straws and tape. We then attempted to place 3 toy cars on the bridge to see if they could Read more…