This week we have carried on reading the story Jack and the beanstalk. This time we have focused on ordering the story and we used character masks to help us. We used language such as first, next, then and last to retell the story and created a story map on Read more…
This half term our topic is ‘Gods and Mortals’, and in our lessons we are learning about Ancient Greece. For our topic lesson today we were lucky enough to watch a show performed by The Hobgoblin Theatre Company called Perseus and Medusa. It is one of the many Greek myths Read more…
This week we started off learning about Ancient Greek myths by watching a virtual performance by Hobgolbin Theatre. We really enjoyed watching the actors act out the story of Perseus and Medusa. Here are some pictures of the performance.
Today was World Book Day at St Luke’s. From Cindy Lou to Aliens where underpants to King Henry VIII (a perfect fit for our theme ‘Off With Her Head’), the children all looked fantastic. Year 5 have taken part in lots of Book Day activities including online workshops with authors Read more…
In the afternoon we entered the Bluebell’s theatre once again. This time it was to watch the pantomime Rapunzel. We loved listening to the characters and joined in with their songs. Miss Longmire gave us some popcorn to enjoy while we watched the pantomime. We spotted the sneaky dragon and Read more…
Today in RE we heard the story of Moses and the burning bush. We discussed how Moses might have felt when he approached the burning bush and what we can learn from the story. We created freeze frames of the story including Moses being placed in the basket in the Read more…
During this half term in our Topic lessons we have been learning about volcanos. We have learnt lots of new words, some of which are quite hard to remember! We decided to put some actions to the words to try and help us remember what they mean. These are the Read more…
Ths week we have started out new story Aaaaaarrrrgggh spider. We worked in groups to act out the story and we have been making boring sentence more exciting.
With our partners, we picked one of the plot points from our story My Christmas Star to act out. The children worked really well in their pair to practise and perform their scene using vocal expression and body language. Everyone enjoyed watching each other’s performance! The children used their imagination Read more…
Our English focus over the next few weeks is based around the Christmas advert ‘My Christmas Star’. The children really enjoyed watching the video clip, with many children dancing along, too! Yesterday, we worked with a partner, using a thesaurus to describe Jasmine and Dad’s feelings using interesting adjectives. Today, Read more…