Year 2 have enjoyed a fantastic final week of term, filled with exciting activities and happy memories. From testing their skills in a fun paper plane experiment to playing in Queen’s Park, it’s been a week to remember. They also relaxed with a special film treat, complete with delicious ice pops to cool down in the summer sun. A highlight was the brilliant St Luke’s Has Got Talent show, where the children showcased their amazing Read more
We have some very talented children in Year 3 Birch who kindly brought in some medals and trophies to showcase their achievements in sport outside of school. We have someone who is on a football team outside of school who won the Autumn and Spring cup, won the league and she also won player of the season. We also have another member of our class who got a medal for a football tournament that he Read more
We loved learning about Henri Rousseau! Check out our amazing artist research pages. We used oil pastels to re-create one of his famous paintings called Tiger in a Tropical Storm.
Year 2 participated in a SCARF workshop on gratitude led by Jess. During the session, the children explored the concept of being thankful and reflected on the people, experiences, and things in their lives that they appreciate. They discussed what gratitude means and shared their thoughts with one another. The workshop encouraged them to think deeply about the reasons behind their feelings of thankfulness, helping them to recognize and value the positive aspects of their Read more
This morning, Year 5 Juniper had a visit from Jess at SCARF to carry out a workshop on friends. They were able to talk about friendships, their importance, and how it is vital to respect each other along with sharing differing opinions and how to handle compromise. The children really enjoyed the workshop and got involved in all of the interactive aspects. There were lots of discussions, media to watch, cards to order and compromise Read more
Today Year 5 Juniper completed their Design and Technology unit on cooking and nutrition. Throughout this topic we have looked at how food goes from farm to fork, what nutritional information is and designed our own labels. The last step was to prepare the food and cook it together. We have looked at recipes for Spaghetti Bolognaise over our topic and the different ways in which recipes can be adapted. Today we were able to Read more
Today, we finished our cooking and nutrition Design Technology unit. The children worked in groups to prepare our ingredients. We discussed how to handle food, food hygiene and different methods for chopping the ingredients. We then went into the forest school area to cook our spaghetti bolognese. We prepared a vegetarian version using quorum mince and discussed how to apart a recipe. The children were brilliant and the bolognese was delicious. Well done Year 5 Read more
This week in Art Club we had fun trying to recreate a glitch effect in our artwork. The children started by drawing a skull, which we then decorated using red and blue pens to create the effect. This was much trickier than it seems and the children worked really hard to concentrate on getting the red and blue colours to ‘glitch’. The trick is to separate your page in half and always keep one colour Read more
This week has been arts week and we have learning about Artist David Hockney. We created a fact page about him, drew a picture of his famous Garrowby Hill and then coloured in pictures of his artwork using the computer.
