As part of our English unit on persuasive writing, Year 6 were able to share their letters with and ask questions of Councillor Peter Rush. Councillor Rush has worked in the township for more than two decades and is also a governor at St. Luke’s. He provided us with reasons for and against the points made in our letters, helped us to understand what the council can and cannot do to help solve the parking Read more
This week the children requested that we make Rice Krispie cakes. We decided to give them a bonfire theme using buttercream icing and broken matchmakers. The children made the buttercream from scratch using butter and icing sugar and added orange food colouring to give us the fire effect. The end results are brilliant and they tasted pretty amazing too!
In forest school this week Year 3 Cedar have been learning all about The Good Samaritan by sequencing the story and then using the natural forest materials to create artwork. They had lots of fun exploring forest school even in the pouring rain!
This week in design technology we met ‘the Doodlers’. The Doodlers are fun robots powered by an electrical circuit and a motor. The children carried out an investigation in groups to determine the factors that affect the form and function of the Doodler. We changed parts such as the drawing tools, the quantities of the tools used, different counterweights and the positions of the battery and motor. The children had a great time investigating and Read more
After noticing high volumes of traffic whilst walking St Luke’s church, Year 6 conducted a traffic survey to investigate how busy the road was outside of school. After some alarming results, the children decided that it would be a good idea to write letters that could be sent to parents, notifying them of the dangers of high volumes of traffic outside school, parking on double yellow lines, and blocking driveways. Today, we had the chance Read more
The children had fun this afternoon in art printing with paint. We looked at how we could use Lego bricks to create prints by painting and stamping the blocks. The children experiment with pattern, shape and colour. Some children challenged themselves to make their initials using the blocks.
As part of our half term challenges we have completed an assembly to introduce ourselves to the rest of the school. We discussed: Who we are –We are your new Digital leaders. We are in Year 5 and will be helping you during some of your computer lessons. What is a Digital Leader – A Digital Leader is a pupil who is part of a Digital Leaders Team within a school, whose role it is to Read more
We have been learning about sacred books in our new topic for RE. In this lesson we learnt about the story of ‘the lost coin’, we discussed that it was a special type of story called a parable and Jesus told parables to help people learn something or understand ideas. They might seem to be saying one thing, but they are really teaching about something else. We then made hidden meaning boxes that shown the Read more
This week saw the start of our new cookery club. The children had lots of fun making their own ‘mummy pizzas’. We made our dough from scratch using greek yoghurt and flour and chose our own fillings. We filled our pizzas then overlapped our dough to give us the effect we wanted. The children were able to follow a recipe as well as using skills such as measuring, cutting, kneading and mixing. The children Read more
