The children read about The Easter Story. We discussed which parts represented death and resurrection. We then acted out that part of the story, with roles being shared between their friends. We worked on team building skills, listening skills and speaking skills when practising and performing for their friends.
In Gardening club this half term, we have been looking at what has grown in our planters along with making a sun catcher using natural materials around our grounds. We even found a discarded nest on the floor and loved examining this to see what it was made from. We Read more…
We loved our trip to Manchester Museum and had a fantastic time looking for clues within the Museum. We made our own exhibits within our workshops and compared different animals to one another. We looked at taxidermy animals and it was amazing to see the turtle in real life!
This year, St Luke’s hosted it’s very own hockey competition in our school grounds. We invited other schools to participate and all the children had lots of fun playing against other schools. Parents came to watch and they cheered everyone on! Well done to our hockey team, you played really Read more…
We had so much fun learning about oracle bones with our adults. We made them out of clay and then carved simple Chinese symbols into them with the tools provided. After that, we had some delicious lunch together. We really enjoyed sharing our learning with our adults.
We reminded ourselves of the role of an artist and looked specifically at the artist Georgia O-Keefe. We then created an abstract oil pastel picture inspired by her work. Take a look at these, they are fantastic! We used the oil pastels to create colour, texture and shading.
We had lots of fun using the stencils to create our Christmas cards. We used a sponge to create a colourful background.
We evaluated different ingredients last lesson so this lesson we could choose the most appropriate ingredients for our tarts. We chose tomato base or a BBQ base with tomatoes, spinach and cheese. We made some tarts that did not have veggies on them just in case someone didn’t like spinach Read more…
Our hour of coding was spent completing a Minecraft coding challenge. We absolutely loved this and figured out how to make our Minecraft character move using code.
Year 2 were questioned by the Geography lead to see if they could remember key facts from their lessons from Year 1 and 2. They used Santa to show their understanding. They did so well remembering the continents, the oceans and the 4 point compass.
