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
Since returning to school, Year 5 have been producing some fantastic writing based on an animated clip named ‘The present’. So far in our writing, a computer game obsessed Ben, has just received a special gift from his mum. When Ben opens the gift he is surprised to find a Read more
This week we have looked further at the story of Jack and the beanstalk; we have retold the story using masks and the giant beanstalk that Miss Horrocks made, made our own with bricks, made houses and villages to protect the people from the giant, ordered numbers and then told Read more
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
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.