Sports journalist, Gareth Walker, has donated a number of books to St. Luke’s after being impressed with the work and attitude of our children over the past few years. We always love welcoming Gareth to deliver his Literacy Kicks programme, a 6-session workshop looking at all the key skills needed Read more
Well done to all those children that have been chosen as part of our sports leaders. The children help with activities at lunchtimes and afterschool competitions. We also have our own sports journalist who will be updating our blog with all the sporting activities across school.
This afternoon we have looked at 2 new skills builders for this half term. We’ve had some great discussions around how we can stay positive and be creative. The children have given many examples of how they have achieved these things both in and out of school. See some of Read more
This afternoon Year 5 have enjoyed a visit from the Educational Environment Recycling programme. This involved a fun and informative recycling lesson. The children learnt about the importance of recycling with practical examples of how to recycle well at home and the session included fun, interactive games and materials. Each Read more
This week Year 5 Pine had the task of designing installation art work to convey a message. As a class we decided that we wanted to focus on fast fashion and it’s environmental impact. We came up with the idea of designing clothes made from recycled materials as a way Read more
We reminded ourselves of the role of an artist and looked specifically at the artist Georgia O-Keefe. We then created an abstract oil pastel picture inspired by her work. Take a look at these, they are fantastic! We used the oil pastels to create colour, texture and shading.
This week in Reception we have been learning about people who help us. We were very lucky today, we had a visit from a real nurse! Throughout the week we have been learning about different careers linked to people who help us so we were very excited when Trixie’s mum Read more
During this weeks computer lesson we were put in the role of trainee journalists. We were involved in a breaking news story about an animal that has escaped from a zoo after a major storm. This week we collected notes from eye witnesses. This account came to us through email, Read more
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.
This week’s SMSC assembly was about tackling gender stereotypes in careers. KS1 pupils considered what a builder and a florist may look like before meeting Kimberley and her female colleagues who work in construction and then Jonathon a celebrity floral designer. In KS2 children got a peek into some familiar Read more