English
Year 3 Birch – social reading
Children loved choosing a book with their friend and reading it together, discussing different themes.
Reading
Year 4 Maple visit Heywood Library
This afternoon, Year 4 Maple visited Heywood library. We enjoyed looking through the selection of books and taking some time reading for pleasure. Every child chose a book to bring back to school that were able to stamp themselves. What a lovely afternoon we’ve had!
Learning for Life
A huge well done to Year 1!
This week Year 1 completed their phonics screening check. The children have worked so hard all year and have made phenomenal progress. We are incredibly proud of them and decided they deserved a little treat.
Reading
Year 5 visit to Heywood Library
This afternoon Year 5 enjoyed a visit to Heywood library. We had fun exploring the books and taking time out to enjoy some reading for pleasure. The children have each checked out a book that they are able to enjoy in school. Well done Year 5 for setting such a Read more
Computing
Animal research
This week in English we have been using the laptops to help us research our chosen animals ready to write a non chronological report. We have a wide range of animals chosen, from mudskippers to gorillas. The children have spent lots of time finding out interesting facts ready to create Read more
English
Bluebells visit India and celebrate Holi
We have had so much fun this week and done some amazing exploring and investigating! This week during our around the world topic, we visited India, we answered the register by saying Namasté, had an Indian sweet shop in the playdough area, made rangoli patterns, designs our own mendhi patterns Read more
Drama
The Storm Whale
In our English lessons this half-term, Year 1 have been completing writing based on the book ‘The Storm Whale’ by Benji Davies. As part of our learning, we used the immersive room to experience being on a boat in a storm and we used plot point images to act out Read more
Geography
A walk in Paris
This week we have been learning all about France, we started by listening to the story ‘A walk in Paris’ which showed us some famous Paris landmarks – The children have had some fantastic recall when telling us what they might see if they visited Paris, they could become tour Read more
English
Spelling Bee 2024
This year, the Spelling Bee competition was ran for all schools within Rochdale to participate. A clear winner from both Year 6 classes and the one Year 5 class was Kelton. He then went to the semi-final to represent St Luke’s. Kelton progressed onto the final and today he competed Read more
Careers Related Learning
Careers Week
We’ve had a brilliant week in Maple, we have learnt so much about different types of careers. We have been reading books which include inspirational characters and real life stories about how people achieved their dream careers. We’ve had lots of visitors such as Police Dog handlers, The Manchester Fire Read more