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.
Thursday 17th February was random acts of kindness day. This year our new Anti-bullying/ Kindness ambassadors helped to come up with some ‘Acts of kindness’ ideas that classes could take part in. Each class then chose a random act of kindness to complete. Reception made kindness cards for a friend Read more…
Today, a group of children from Years 2-6, received their training to become student ‘Mental Health Champions’ for St Luke’s. They spent their morning completing a workshop delivered by One Goal, who are a child centred health and well-being company that specialise in helping primary schools improve mental health and Read more…
On Thursday Maple visited the M6 Theatre Company as part of our Linking Schools network. The children met and worked with a Year 4 class from Ashfield Valley Primary. As well as watching a theatre production, the children produced some drama work about looking after our world. Throughout the year Read more…
On Friday, the whole school recognised and celebrated World Mental Health day by taking part in Hello Yellow to raise money for the fantastic Young Minds charity. The children came to school dressed in yellow, listened to assemblies that taught them about mental health, and took part in a range Read more…
Unfortunately, the Year 6 Banner service couldn’t be held at the cathedral this year, however resources were sent so we could hold our own service in school. Rev. Kirsty led the service for us and the children shared songs and prayers they had written themselves.
Following the recent media coverage about racist comments made towards members of the England football team, Year 5 pulled away from our usual timetable to discuss our thoughts, feelings and opinions on racism and to learn more about what we can do as individuals to help make a change. I Read more…
Yesterday, our lesson started with discussions about the vandalism of the Marcus Rashford mural in Manchester and the disgraceful racist abuse Rashford, Saka and Sancho have received online after England’s defeat. We learnt about what racism is and how we can all play a part to educate others, and ourselves Read more…
Today, Year One have been learning all about embracing our differences. We discussed what makes us different, such as our hair colour, likes/dislikes, height, skin colour, and the places our families come from, and how we should celebrate this as it is what makes us unique. We discussed recent events Read more…
This half term our topic is fairy tales, this week we have been focussing on the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears; we used adjectives to describe the characters, played with porridge oats and for our writing task we tasted different flavour porridge and wrote words to describe how they Read more…