Lots of children got Blue Peter badges in the post recently and we are all really excited about them! We sent home a Blue Peter badge application and the children filled this in based around their favourite books. They loved doing this and then when they received their badges, they Read more
We’ve had lots going on in Birch this week. From learning all about different types of nouns, to creating sculptures in Art! Take a look at our pictures. We loved creating our sculptures!
This week we have been reading the ‘Three Little Pigs’. This afternoon, we used different materials to try and make the sturdiest house for the pigs. We talked about the properties of the different materials, chose our materials carefully and then built our houses. Mrs Greenwood was the Big Bad Read more
As we work towards the end of our ghost story unit, we have begun to plan our own ghost stories. We’ve planned our own characters, settings and ghost, ready to write our final piece later this week!
This week we have been learning about keeping safe online. We discussed how using Purple Mash we can complete ‘safe’ searches and what this means – all the content in Purple Mash is created for children, there are no links outside of Purple Mash and details of your work are Read more
This week, Year 1 have been super grammarsauruses. They have been learning about two different types of nouns. We have learnt actions for each to help us remember them, sorted words and images into proper nouns, common nouns or not a noun, played games to test our knowledge and completed Read more
Thank you to all members of St. Luke’s community for voting for your favourite traffic poster. The children all produced fantastic posters and persuasive letters that were sent home tonight.
This morning was our shared learning when our parents came into school to complete an activity with us and then we got to have lunch together. As we are currently reading the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, our task was to invent a new chocolate bar, come up with Read more
This half-term, Year 1 are going to be writing a travel journal. Yesterday we learnt about what a travel journal is and watched a travel vlog to help us gather ideas about the type of things we will write about. Today we watched videos about safaris so we could remember Read more
Today, we have the privilege of having Gareth Walker, a sports journalist in for our English lesson. Over the next 5 sessions, he will be guiding the children through writing professional pieces of sports journalism. Today we looked at reporting on England’s Euro 2024 qualifier versus Italy.