Today Rowan worked in groups to design, prepare and cook a three course meal. Every child had the opportunity to chop, blend, fry or prepare either the starter, main or dessert. For starter the children had a range of vegetables with a humous dip. For the main we cooked a salmon fillet with cous cous and for dessert the children had a variety of fruits to make their own fruit kebab. Needless to say, they Read more
When we arrived at school we noticed footprints left by Father Christmas, we quickly read the note he had left us. Father Christmas left us a book and this week we have been reading the story ‘Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas present’. We found out that Father Christmas travelled in lots of different ways to get the present to Harvey. During choosing time we could write our own letters to Father Christmas and make our very own Read more
Today we have been very excited coming into school, it has been Christmas jumper day! We listened to Christmas songs in the hall and ate our very own Christmas dinner. We are super excited about Christmas Day and hope our food will be just as yummy as today.
Year 6 have started a new topic in Geography – Fieldwork. We have been looking at what fieldwork is; why geographers carry out fieldwork; where you can carry out fieldwork; what the purpose of it is? We looked at the examples of fieldwork that are being carried out by geographers around the world and also located them on a world map.
This week has been Hour of Code, we went on Space Monkey and had to give instructions to the monkey so he could get the banana’s. https://www.codemonkey.com/hour-of-code/space-adventure/
This week the whole school took part in the Christingle service by Rev. Kirsty. The children discussed the purpose and the meaning behind the Christingles before making their own. The children recognised that Christingle is a joyful celebration that brings families and communities together to share the light of Jesus and spread a message of hope. Each element of a Christingle has a special meaning and helps to tell the Christian story: The orange represents Read more
Congratulations to our new STEM ambassadors! Their role in school is to promote science, plan, carry out and evaluate different scientific enquiries. Yesterday, our STEM ambassadors investigated ‘How far can a paper aeroplane fly’ as part of the Ogden Trust. The children changed the size of the aeroplanes they made and the material they were made out of. Then, they threw the aeroplane and measured the distance. After that, they evaluated the investigation deciding why Read more
Congratulations to our new school council! This year, our school council will be running slightly differently. We are now working with ‘Smart School Council’ which gives us access to digital tools that involve every pupil in decision making, social action and developing key skills for life. The school council will be ran entirely by the pupils (supported by Miss Lomax) ensuring their voices are heard and their decisions and ideas are acted upon where possible. Read more
In History, Year 5 are studying the Benin Kingdom. So far we have learnt about how the Benin Kingdom began, what life was like for the Edo people in the Benin Kingdom and how trade links established and what goods were traded. As part of these lessons we have sketched Benin masks, acted out trading between Benin and other European countries and made bracelets using Cowrie shells
This week we have been reading the story ‘The Gruffalo’s child’, we identified the characters in the story and we worked together to Fred talk the sounds. During choosing time we have been able to create our own footprints using paint and played with our very own Gruffalo crumble. We hope the Gruffalo comes to visit us at St Luke’s school before he gets turned into Gruffalo crumble!