After 6 weeks of working with sports journalist, Gareth Walker, Year 6 produced their own opinion pieces are the importance of winning. We were also able to have a Q&A with Gareth around his role and a career in writing and journalism.
We have started learning about Christopher Columbus and to see what different items he brought back from ‘The America’s’ we became explorers. We used our different senses to try to work out what he brought back. We used: tasting and smelling – pineapple touch – a freely bag with potatoes insides sight – a photograph of sweetcorn under a microscope hearing- turkey: we had to scan a QR code and listen to a sound of Read more
We are so lucky at St Luke’s to have our own custom timeline out sight so all children can learn and understand the progress of their learning journey. They can see how their current learning will link with upcoming/ previous learning. And it is so good to see children using it in their play.
This week at Stem Club we’ve been thinking about weights, forces and measures. We set ourselves the challenge of building a bridge from 5 sheets of A4 paper to see how much weight it could hold. We all built different models and tested them to see how much weight they could hold. The winning bridge could hold a whopping 740g!!!
In our Science lesson this week, we’ve been learning all about magnets. We know that magnets are objects that have a north and south and pole and that can attract/repel other magnetic materials, that two of the same poles (e.g. north and north) attract each other and two poles that are opposite will attract each other (e.g. north and south)and that magnetic materials are materials that are attracted to either pole of a magnet. We Read more
Last week, Year 5 Juniper started their new topic in science on magnetism. Today we learnt all about magnets, when they were discovered and how they work. We even learnt that magnets were first found as objects called lodestones! We took part in an experiment to test how magnets attract and repel each other, as well as other items. We used paperclips in our test and found that the magnet was attracted at the north Read more
This half term we’re learning about installation art. During todays lesson we investigated the explosive artwork of Cai Guo-Qiang. We looked at the techniques used to create explosion effects like Cai used and created our own scaled down versions of an art installation. We used mixed media such as paint, stencils, chalk and even tea bags to create our installations. The children concluded the lesson by discussing the effect their installation would have on its Read more
Thank you to all of the adults who came to Reception’s Communication and Language workshop and the stay and play session. The children really enjoyed having you all in school and showing you what they have been learning about so far this half term.
In class today, Year 5 Juniper took part in the NSPCC Speak Out Stay Safe assembly and workshop. We were able to discuss the different types of abuse, know that it is never the child’s fault, understand that we have the right to be kept safe, and who to speak to if we need help. We familiarised ourselves with Buddy who is the NSPCC’s green speech bubble mascot, were able to work in partners and Read more
During session four of our Literacy Kicks workshops, we looked at the role of a sub editor and how they edit submitted news reports before publishing. We edited a news article about the growth of E-sports. Each session, we focus on a different Paralympian. Today’s was an Iranian sitting volleyball player, whose height is over 8 feet tall! We compared our own height and reach to his own to better understand the advantages he has Read more