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What did the Anglo-Saxons believe?

This half-term we have been learning about life as an Anglo-Saxon. During this lesson our focus was ‘What do the Anglo-Saxons believe?’ We learnt that the Anglo-Saxons were originally pagans, which means they believed in many gods and that they were later converted to Christianity with help from a monk named Augustine. We discussed how the Anglo-Saxons sometimes wore lucky charms called amulets and that they believed these amulets would protect them from harm.  In Read more

By Mrs Jones, ago

What is a magnet?

Year 5 have started their new science topic studying magnetism. We have discussed the difference between contact and non-contact forces. We thought about the history of magnets and what they are used for. We then investigated what makes magnets attract and repel. We enjoyed using bar magnets, paper clips and compasses to investigate this.

By Mrs Edyvean, ago

Sentence work

Maple have been learning about main and subordinate clauses this morning. We worked hard on identifying each one and moving the clauses around to make new sentences. We tried really hard to punctuate our sentences correctly, and even linked them to our cross curricular writing about ‘The Water Cycle’.

By Mrs Grindrod, ago

Healthy eating

This week in Literacy we have been learning all about healthy eating. We know all the superheroes need to eat healthy food to make sure they are super strong to save the day. We have been tasting fruit to decide which fruit we liked the most. We came up some other ways to use our fruits like fruit kebabs and smoothies. We then made our very own smoothies using a blender and tasted them to Read more

By Mrs Marsh, ago

Mental Health Champions

Today, a group of children from Years 2-6, received their training to become student ‘Mental Health Champions’ for St Luke’s. They spent their morning completing a workshop delivered by  One Goal, who are a child centred health and well-being company that specialise in helping primary schools improve mental health and wellbeing. The workshop helped the children to gain a much better understanding of mental health, gave them ideas to support their own wellbeing, gave them Read more

By Miss Lomax, ago

How can we prevent heat from getting to an ice cube?

Today, Year 6 investigated ‘how to prevent heat from getting to an ice cube?’ Every child has worked extremely hard over the past three to four weeks focusing on our topic within Science ‘heat’. They’ve been exploring, discussing, researching and investigating how particles behave; thermal equilibrium; thermal conductors and thermal insulators. Today we discussed and explored many different materials: cotton; tin foil; paper; plastic; newspaper; card; tissue paper; cloths. The children had to plan and Read more

By Mrs Alderson, ago

Erosion

In Geography, we have been looking at erosion. We looked at how erosion can cause the coastline to change over time.  We then did an experiment by creating a cliff using sand and water. We made a wave and could see the effect it had on the sand.

By Mrs Graham, ago

🎨 Every picture tells a story 🎨

This half-term in Art, Year 5 have been studying the topic ‘Every picture tells a story’, which has involved studying various artists and the meaning behind the art work they have created. During these lessons, we have studied the artist Banksy and created an edited version of one of his pieces that shows a political message, created art using emojis to tell a story, Made ink blot art based on Herman Rorschach art (used for personality Read more

By Miss Lomax, ago