In Reception, we have been looking after some caterpillars. We gave them lots of food and watched them grow. They grew really big! We then observed the caterpillars and watched them turn into a chrysalis. When we came into school this morning, we had lots of beautiful butterflies! We are going to look after our butterflies for a few days and then we will release them into Kaden’s Garden.
Year 4 Hawthorn, designed, planned and created their own Saxon homes using a variety of different resources. The children worked in groups to create the a sturdy home for the Anglo-Saxons to live in. Well done.
In Reception, we have been learning about ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We have learnt how to retell the story and the life cycle of a butterfly. During the story, the caterpillar eats lots of fruit. So we decided to taste test different fruits and see which ones we prefer. Once we had taste tested all of fruits, we started to write some adjectives describing how they tasted.
This afternoon, a group of children from Year 5 took part in the Great Science Share. We met with the other schools in the Arch Alliance over Zoom and each presented a Science investigation to each other which we followed and completed. The investigations that we did are: How does invisible ink work? How does the brightness of a bulb change when the voltage is increased/decreased in a circuit? How does the amount of sugar Read more
This week we we had so much fun in forest school! As we are learning about mini beasts and life cycles this term, we decided to link this with our forest school session. We did so well at remembering all of the rules and explained why we need rules – to keep us safe! To start the session off we went on a hunt to find something that was rough, something that was soft and Read more
We have been practising time today outside in the lovely weather. We have been looking at 5 minute intervals and have been playing lots of games to help us. Throughout the day Mrs Graham has been asking us what the time is. We are becoming very confident now.
We got all 20 marbles so we picked a class reward- Forest school! It was also Miss Jone’s last day 😢 so we had an extra long golden time. For forest school we went on a mini beast hunt and made pictures of mini beasts using twigs, leaves, acorns and flowers. Miss Jones was very kind and got everyone ice pops, crisps and biscuits. Thank you Miss Jones for all your hard work during your Read more
Today year 5 enjoyed finding out about the theory of evolution as part of their new science topic. First we found the definitions of some new vocabulary hidden outside and we now know the meanings of species, variation, adaptation and evolution. After this we carried out a ‘Battle of the Beaks’ investigation. We used tweezers, pegs and chopsticks as our ‘beaks’ and demonstrated what Charles Darwin found out about how the finches had adapted over Read more
This afternoon we have been playing with old fashioned toys as part of our ‘Memory Box’ topic. The children had time to try out each of the toys and figure out how they work. We then discussed how they’re different from our toys at home and which we enjoyed using.
During the Summer term, Maple have been learning how to play the violin with Rochdale Music Service. Have a look of the video of them in action! https://stlukesceprimaryco-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/mgrindrod_stlukesceprimary_co_uk/EfAlOdMxOmZLm6M1s5gvVtUB6DjEfCE2YV7puQxqrxKpUA