As this year has been a difficult one for so many, St Luke’s have been finding different ways to spread kindness this Christmas. The children have been creating messages and drawings to post to people to make them smile. The children will/ have posted these to someone they know who may be isolated, lonely or may need cheering up. This is part of the Heywood in action community project ‘Heywood with a heart’. Each class has Read more
This week, Year 5 have been making baubles for their Christmas craft, which can be bought by families. First, we had our pictures taken. For one photo we chose to put on fun Christmas accessories and for the other we had a nice picture with a festive background. We cut our pictures into circles and stuck them back to back on card, filled our baubles with glitter and decorative snow, attached our picture to the Read more
This week week we have started Getting ready (and very excited!) for Christmas! On he first of December, we had such a surprise when we found that Santa had sent a cheeky elf for our classroom. We had a vote and decided he would be called Snowdrop Elf. So far this week he appeared with our stocking advent calendar, brought us some special presents that we found out are books that we can open Read more
Christmas has officially landed in after school club! We have been doing lots of different activities this week – We have written and posted our letter to Santa, made some decorations for our Christmas tree and we have been watching a different Christmas film each night. We have also been doing some dancing and singing to Christmas songs. We have lots of exciting things planned for the next two weeks including making Christmas crackers, painting, Read more
This week in Reception, we have been beginning to celebrate Christmas. We have been really busy decorating our classroom. We have all worked together to make paper chains, snowflakes and Christmas cards. To celebrate Advent, we have got a magic Advent calendar and some Advent books underneath our Christmas trees. Everyday of Advent, one child chooses a book, unwraps it and then we all read it together. They have all been lovely Christmas books so Read more
Maple have enjoyed their PE lesson this week with a Cricket coach. They have learnt some new throwing and catching skills and are becoming familiar with the rules of Cricket. Fantastic job Maple!
Fun filled night watching the film Christmas Chronicles one. We really enjoyed our popcorn and hot chocolate, yum yum!
In today’s History lesson we learnt about Stonehenge. We talked about the history of the monument and the names of the different parts of it. We then tried to create the different parts using biscuits to represent the stones. We made the outer circle, the bluestones and the horseshoe.
The children in Key Stage one and two have all worked hard creating some fantastic artwork. Each class created a piece of the nativity story. Year one painted animals for the stable. Year two made some 3D sparkly stars. Year three created Mary and Joseph. Year Four produced a collage of baby Jesus in the manger and created a beautiful angel. Year five made the three wise men. Year 6 used paper weaving to create Read more
We had lots of fun last night at our Year 3 Christmas movie night. We watched the film Nativity, drank hot chocolate and marshmallows and ate popcorn. The countdown to Christmas has started!