Year 6 had the first of their 6 sessions with sports journalist, Gareth Walker. Each session, he will be guiding the children through writing professional pieces of sports journalism, sharing his skills and expertise, whilst helping us to improve our own writing. Today we looked at reporting on England’s Euro Read more
We have introduced our new story MeerKat Christmas. We have looked at the shapes so we know how to set out a postcard. We looked at the journey of a postcode from being posted in the post box, going through the post office and finally getting to its destination. We Read more
To end our science topic, Year 6 produced high-quality academic essays to show how much we learnt across our unit. We looked at the key concepts, knowledge and facts that we knew and then planned how to articulate these, using our writing skills and academic vocabulary. We then used Read more
Today we have been linking our English and our science together to investigate the properties of metal. We will use these findings in our science investigation “why do we use metals?” and also in our big write when we write our own version of the Iron man story. Here are Read more
This afternoon, Snowdrops have had such a lovely time working with Year 6 in their classrooms. We shared a story called ‘Come over to my house’ by Dr Seuss. We talked about how all of the houses in the story were very different to each other, just like our own Read more
Year 1 are starting a new writing unit based on the story ‘The 3 Little Pigs’. Today we explored the story by reading it, talking about the vocabulary (including nouns, verbs and adjectives) and discussed ideas of how we could improve the story using our fantastic adjective ideas. We then Read more
Year 6 Sycamore welcomed parents and family into our shared learning this morning. We were able to discuss our latest geography topic, Local Fieldwork, as well as the persuasive letters we wrote as part of our English unit. The letters and fieldwork, a traffic survey we conducted outside of school, Read more
As part of our English unit on persuasive writing, Year 6 were able to share their letters with and ask questions of Councillor Peter Rush. Councillor Rush has worked in the township for more than two decades and is also a governor at St. Luke’s. He provided us with reasons Read more
We have been reading a story called the King who banned the dark this week. We then completed lots of activities about this story. We had to think about: The next day we used shadow puppets to retell the story. We then planned and made letters to the Read more
Juniper have had another visit from Mrs Weatherhead this week. We’ve had a fantastic time exploring different types of poems. We’ve written poems of our own about Heywood and its surrounding areas and produced some fantastic artwork. Eventually, we’ll be publishing a book of these poems – watch this space!