Art & Design
Year 5 shared lunch and learning
Thank you to all the parents who came to our shared learning and Lunch. We really enjoyed having you and we hope you learnt something new. Here are some pictures of the day.
Art & Design
Shell for sale
Today we created shells for Hermit crabs. We listened to a story about a Hermit crab and created a success criteria thinking about what would make a successful home. We said that our shells would need to be beautiful,crusty, strong, sturdy, spikey and smooth. Once we had created our shells we created an advertisement for them. We then walked around like Hermit crabs and decided which home we would like to buy. We wrote about Read more
Art & Design
Artwork for The Iron Man
Here are a selection of Cedar’s fantastic pieces of artwork for the covers of their curriculum books.
History
History week
Year 5 have been look at the history of Rochdale and Heywood this week. We focuses on what Rochdale and Heywood used to be like in the 13th Century. Through our research we found out that Rochdale used to be a market town and Heywood used to be a wood – hence the name. We learnt about the origins of some of Rochdale’s buildings, like st Chad’s parish church being build in 1194AD. Here are Read more
Art & Design
The Hungry Caterpillar
This week Reception have been learning about the story, ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’. We have been reading the story and learning lots about it. In maths, we have been making caterpillars with repeating patterns. We found it a little bit tricky at first but we kept practising and now we can do it brilliantly! We also made healthy fruit kebabs… yum yum!!
English
What has happened in StLukes playground?
When Miss Lomax got into school this morning, she found something strange in the school grounds. Year 3 went to explore. We found a really large outline of what looked like a body but was much too big and oddly shaped. We questioned what it may be and how it may have got there. As we began to read our book for this half-term ‘The Iron Man’, we began to think this strange figure could Read more
Computing
A trip to the seaside
Our new topic is ‘Beachcombers’ so we took a trip to the seaside and completed the FANTASTICS. This will help us with our class story ‘Winnie at the seaside’ and all our topic work.
Eco Committee
How long does it take to decompose?
Please take a minute to look at this image. This puts into perspective as to how important it is to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Eco Committee
Eco’s Big Battery Hunt
Thank you to everyone who brought batteries in! We managed to fill around 8 barrels in total. They will go off to be weighed and hopefully our efforts will put us into the prize draw for some amazing prizes for the school. We will continue to collect batteries and store them safely throughout the year to go towards next years Big Battery Hunt! So please, keep bringing them in as recycling them is much Read more
Art & Design
ID – who am I?
To begin our ID topic, which is all about us and who we are, we sketched ourselves by identifying the key characteristics of our faces. We looked at our eyes, hair, nose and mouth, paying attention to size, shape and colour. We used half of our own face as a guide to sketch the other half and create an image of ourselves on the front of our books ready for a topic which is all Read more