Juniper have had a fantastic morning in English today. A real life national newspaper writer visited our classroom to tell us the story of the Rochdale-Fijian link with Rochdale Rugby Hornets. The children were engaged in their reading and writing by taking themselves inside the exciting world of sports journalism Read more…
For our reflective Friday, we read the story of one of our inspirational people – Harriet Tubman. We looked at how she managed to escape slavery in the southern states and then spent 11 years fighting to rescue other slaves. We looked through the window to see how her Read more…
This week all classes took part in the NSPCC PANTS lesson. During these discussions we teach our pupils the following important safety skills without giving explicit information or telling scary stories. We use the ‘PANTS’ acrostic, which is like a green cross code for staying safe from sexual abuse. PANTS stands Read more…
Today, both year 6 classes visited the cenotaph in Heywood to pay our respects for Armistice Day. The children read out a lovely poem in remembrance of all we have lost fighting in the wars. The children placed a wreath down with a beautiful message to all the fallen soldiers Read more…
This week St Luke’s celebrated World Mental Health Day. Children came to school dressed in Yellow and raised money for YoungMinds. The children also took part in various activities throughout the day based on ‘The 5 Ways To Wellbeing’. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far, we have Read more…
As a follow on from Hello Yellow on Monday, Year 6 looked at how they could express the 5 ways to wellbeing through art. They used a piece by Lubaini Himid, named Five, to inspire their use of colours, tones, shapes and lines. They also applied the skills they Read more…
Year 1 Oaks read the bible story “Jesus’ Special Friends” and talked about what makes a good friend. We used fruit to represent our Christian values and what we value in a friendship. The blueberries represented kindness, strawberries represented love and so on. At the end we sprinkled ‘happiness’ onto Read more…
The children have had a wonderful day today for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We have learnt lots of facts about the Queen and her life during her 70 years on the throne. We have enjoyed making lots of decorations and cakes! We also had a special ‘afternoon tea’ picnic together Read more…
The children have had a wonderful day today for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We have learnt lots of facts about the Queen and her life during her 70 years on the throne. We have enjoyed making our own jubilee mementos and having a picnic for our lunch.
