This week, Year 5 have started a writing unit of work based on the book ‘Moth’ by Isabel Thomas. The book is a narrative poem telling the story of natural selection and evolution using the peppered moth. The children have enjoyed being immersed into the book and learning about the Read more
Well done to everyone who entered the St Luke’s egg decorating competition! All the entries were egg-cellent!! Today the School council children judged the competition, voting for one winner from each class. The children found it really difficult to judge due to so many fantastic displays but did come to Read more
Last weeks experiment was a huge success amongst various children from various year groups – well done! This week our aim is to get 20 children across the school o participate in the challenge, do you think you’ve got what it takes to be a scientist? Well read on to Read more
This week in Literacy we have been learning all about India and have focused on the story ‘Festival Of Colours’. The children use the flowers they have to create powder colours and use it to throw during the Holi Festival. In writing we have been able to write down the colours Read more
As part of our Civil Rights topic, Year 6 looked at examples of artwork that promotes diversity and equality. After discussing different pieces, we decided to recreate Pop Art portraits of Rosa Parks. We used watercolours for the portrait and oil pastels to blend colours for a vibrant background.
This week, Year have been creating art work for the hall display. As part of our Art topic ‘Every picture tells a story’, Year 5 really enjoyed studying the artist Banksy and so we decided to look at some of his most famous pieces in more detail. Banksy’s work is Read more
Year 5 were excited to create art work for a whole school competition this afternoon. For the competition, each year group has been given one of our Christian values to focus their art work on- the winning art from each year group will be displayed in our new entrance.
In art, we have been improving a range of art skills. Before the half term, we enjoyed mixing shades of paint to make different shades of green. We also enjoyed printing using Lego blocks to make lovely bright patterns and we loved making our own stamps Read more
This half-term in Art, Year 5 have been studying the topic ‘Every picture tells a story’, which has involved studying various artists and the meaning behind the art work they have created. During these lessons, we have studied the artist Banksy and created an edited version of one of his pieces Read more
This afternoon in art, Maple have been discussing the painting ‘Children’s Games’ by Pieter Bruegel, created in 1560. We looked very closely at the painting to see what sort of games children played all that time ago. We then went outside to recreate some of the games ourselves!