PSHCE
A visit from the Oral Health Nurse
This morning, year 4 enjoyed a visit from the Oral Heath team to tell us how to keep our teeth clean. 🦷
Learning for Life
The importance of good oral health and hygiene
This morning, year 4 had a visit from our school nurse. Michelle told us all about the importance oral hygiene, we learnt what teeth are and how to look after them, what we use our teeth for, how many teeth we have and which are deciduous and permanent and the functions of our teeth. We now know about tooth anatomy and names of different types and teeth and what jobs they do. Cleaning your teeth Read more
Christian Values
Traffic Poster Voting
Thank you to all members of St. Luke’s community for voting for your favourite traffic poster. The children all produced fantastic posters and persuasive letters that were sent home tonight.
Shared learning
Year 4 Shared Learning
Shared learning this morning for Year 4 Hawthorn. It was lovely for the children to spend time with their grown-ups and talk about their learning in class. Together, they created their very own chocolate bar wrapper and completed a Charlie and chocolate factory quiz. Thank you to all her parents and carers for coming this morning.
Christian Values
Ethos team
The ethos team have been busy preparing for their collective worship this week. As part of this they made sensory bottles for some of our children, which represents the story of Jesus calms the storm. The children enjoyed exploring these bottles. The ethos team then retold the story. They talked about how they can sometimes feel like they have a storm going on inside them but they can trust in God to help them feel Read more
Forest school
Special places in forest school
In RE, we have been thinking about special places. In forest school this week we shared places that are special to use around the fire circle. The children then got busy creating their own special places. The children worked hard building their own den and could explain why it was important to them. The children were then able to have some reflection time in their special places. Some children chose to say a prayer in Read more
Religious Education
If God is everywhere, why go to a place of worship?
This half term we are answering the big question ‘If God is everywhere, why go to a place of worship?’. During todays lesson we investigated Hinduism and the similarities and differences between worshipping at home or at a Mandir. The children really enjoyed learning about a different religion and looking at some of the items that Hindu people use to create a shrine.
Art & Design
Shared Learning with parents
This morning was our shared learning when our parents came into school to complete an activity with us and then we got to have lunch together. As we are currently reading the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, our task was to invent a new chocolate bar, come up with a name for it and create packaging for it. We had lots of fun!
Art & Design
This half-term, Year 2 are working with clay in Art. In our first lesson, we went down to our forest school and explored the Clay by experimenting with tools to make marks, shaping the clay with our hands and then making a model of our choice. In the following lesson, we created clay structures and added our own designs by using tools to make patterns or adding other shaped pieces of clay and using natural Read more
Computing
Year 3 Birch – Computing
Today the children loved learning to touch type. They used all their fingers to try and hit the letters as quick as they could! It was tricky but they loved having a go.