French
French body parts
Over the last couple of weeks Year 3 have been learning parts of the body in French. To help us with his we have been singing and dancing along to the French head, shoulders knees and toes and to Jean petit qui danse.
Growth Mind-set
Mental Health awareness day KS2
Yesterday was World Mental Health awareness day. At St Luke’s, supporting good mental health and wellbeing is very important. Today the whole school took part in various sessions to celebrate this day. As part of this, all KS2 took part in a live lesson from BBC teach linked with TES. The lesson specifically focussed on understanding emotions, growth mindset, various ways we can help ourselves keep good mental health and ideas of what we can Read more
Design and Technology
Our bread 🥖
Yesterday, we made bread. This afternoon, we were able to taste our bread. We rolled it into small rolls. We made 16 so the little hen could have 1 and we shared half each. We thought it was very yummy!
Growth Mind-set
Mental Health Awareness Week
Willows talked about what makes us happy, sad, angry and anxious. We learnt a lot of new things about our friends and it was nice to talk about our feelings. It was really exciting to hear some of the things that made them happy and we discussed ways we could solve the things that made us sad or anxious.
English
Making Bread
This week we’ve have been reading the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’. As a class we decided to help each other make some bread. We read the instructions and then followed them very carefully. After we baked the bread, we had a taste. It was delicious!
Year 4 - Hawthorn
All about me
Year 4 Hawthorn have been creating ‘All about me” sheets to send to Year 4 pupils at Ashfield Valley primary school. In November we will be going to the M6 theatre to meet them and we are very
PSHCE
How are you feeling?
In dinosaur school we have been looking at different feelings and emotions, we passed round our teddy bear Beth and shared our own feelings. Miss Robinson showed us some emotion cards and we talked about lots of different emotions. We used our faces to show the different emotions and talked about why we might feel that way. Miss Robinson put the cards in a bag, we had to choose a card to act out and Read more
Christian Values
Baking Bread
This week, Reception have been reading ‘The Little Red Hen’. In the story, the red hen wants to bake bread but none of her friends will help her. We have been discussing how this will make the hen feel and how we would behave differently. Bluebells have been talking about how we can be good friends and be kind to others. We are think we need to treat others as we would like to be Read more
PSHCE
Mental health awareness
This week we have been looking at feelings. We talked about how we all have different feelings, some of these we might have every day and that these feelings can change over time. We met Maz the alien who didn’t know anything about feelings. We talked about what feelings are and then showed what these feelings might look like. Together we then looked at some different scenarios and discussed which feelings the different Read more
Science
Year 5 Pollination
This afternoon, we enjoyed carrying out a practical activity to demonstrate how plants are pollinated by insects. First the children drew a brightly coloured flower to attract insects. I then gave each child some nectar (cheese puffs). The class were transformed into bees and ate the delicious nectar. Whilst eating the nectar, children ended up covered in pollen (cheese puff crumbs) and could not lick their fingers! When they had finished the nectar, children then Read more