Transition day- Reception to Year 1

Yesterday, reception children spent the day in their new Year 1 classes. We had a lovely day! After spending a little time chatting and getting to know each other, we began by reading the story ‘The cautious Caterpillar’, which is all about a caterpillar who doesn’t want to become a butterfly. We talked about how sometimes change can be scary but once we embrace it we can really enjoy it and we learn lots of Read more

Year 1 SCARF workshop- Feelings

This week, all the classes are taking part in a workshop by Jess from SCARF. Each class teacher has chosen a workshop that they feel will be most beneficial to children as part of their ‘learning for life’. Today, Year 1 took part in their workshop about feelings. Harold the giraffe told the children about a really bad week he had. He was carrying around a big bag of feelings from the week and the Read more

Year 1 Art Week

Last week was art week at St Luke’s. In class we learnt about careers that involve art, learnt more about mark making and about the artist ‘Mr Doodle’. We also created our own landscape art using mark making. On Wednesday and Friday afternoon, we were very lucky to have a special visitor who is an artist. She told us all about her career and created Art work with us using the technique of printing.  

#letgirlsplay campaign – Donations from Argyle North West

We have had a wonderful donation from Argyle North West Construction that have allowed us to put this event on for Heywood schools. This has enabled us to pay for the pitches, the trophies and medals, the new kits for St Luke’s and some new footballs. We want to thank Argyle for their contributions; the girls across Heywood had such a great time and it is fantastic to see such enthusiasm for the sport. Below Read more

Arts week

We’ve had such a busy week and finished with a fun art day. We were very lucky to have the artist Justin Eagleton come into class to share some of his amazing art work. He then helped us to draw some birds and lions. Afterwards we looked at doodling and watched a video of Mr Doodle. We then practised doodling and once we were happy with the different doodling styles we completed a picture using Read more

Blackstone Edge Elevation

A group of children from Year 6 were invited by Breaking Barriers to embark upon an immersive journey along the scenic route along Blackstone Edge called Elevation. The children experienced a creative tour across the lands of Blackstone Edge, whilst listening to the Mother of the Moorlands through a set of headphones. it was a wonderful opportunity for the children to slow down, enjoy nature and listen to some stories come to life around them. Read more