This week, Year 5 Juniper have taken part in a MoneySense workshop in relation to our finance week. A volunteer from NatWest bank came in to tell us all about the career that they have had working in finance and what their role is in the job that they do. Read more
This week, we had 2 special visitors from Natwest bank who came into school to talk to us about money. We completed three different activities. The first one was looking at ‘wants’ and ‘needs’—we discussed how we need to have food, water, clothes, and shelter and how other things are Read more
Thank you to our visitors today, we really enjoyed learning about their careers in banking during our question and answer session!We then became fraud investigators – we worked in groups and looked at all the exhibits and summarised the information to get the bottom of who might have committed the Read more
Today Pine have take part in a MoneySense workshop as part of our finance week at St Luke’s. Two volunteers from Natwest came to tell us all about their careers in finance and what their job involves on a daily basis. The children worked together in groups, with support from Read more
This week, Ms Ali from the NatWest bank came to talk to us about money. We discussed whether we like to save money or spend it straight away. Seventeen of the children in class said they like to save, three like to spend it, and ten like to do a Read more
During Finance week, we looked at ways to save money, whilst also saving the planet. We looked at what we used energy on every day and how we got this energy. We talked about fossil fuels and renewable energy, how to make better choices such as walking to the shops, Read more
Thank you to all that attended Languages Club this half term. We’ve been very busy learning greetings in different languages, we looked at different European flags and matched languages to their country of origin, played games using the phrases and words we had learnt and even tasted some different foods Read more
This week we made some sweet puff pastry tarts. Children were able to cut out the shapes they wanted and filled the puff pastry with sweet treats which we hen cooked in the air fryers. We certainly have some budding chefs on our hands as children have created some of Read more
This half term we are focusing on two skills based on our Skills Builder programme. Our focus is listening and speaking. Children reflected on themselves as a learner and how they rate themselves in terms of listening and speaking. We thought about the types of jobs that require excellent listening Read more
This year, all children have been introduced to ‘Skills builder’. These are a set of 8 essential skills that are important for career success. Each half-term, the whole school will focus on understanding and developing 2 of those essential skills. This half-term, we are focussing on listening and speaking. Through Read more