Today we looked at examples of poetry from around the world that display examples of local dialect. We looked at different examples, including Scottish, Lancastrian and Caribbean. We then tried to decide what the dialect meant. We have created a bank of vocabulary to use when writing our own poems Read more…
Year 6 have been looking at the poem, No Problem, by Benjamin Zephaniah. We studied the language used, the massages linked to racism he faced growing up and how it is written in his dialect. Later in the week, we will be producing our own poems linked to the theme Read more…
KS1 Athletics Event. KS 1 children took part in the Heywood Sports partnership athletics competition, held at Heywood Sports Village. First up were the races. The girls were up first and were amazing, competing against other incredible runners. After the initial races, it was the turn of the boys, who Read more…
This morning Year 1 completed a grammar lesson on questions. We learnt about what a question is, how we know if a sense is a question, learnt sentence starters for questions, learnt KungFu Punctuation of how to draw a question mark and played stand up sit down for question or Read more…
Year 6 have begun to plan and write their own ghost stories. We created our own narrative map to plan each paragraph and decided which fantastics lenses would create the best sentences for each paragraph.
Sports journalist, Gareth Walker, has donated a number of books to St. Luke’s after being impressed with the work and attitude of our children over the past few years. We always love welcoming Gareth to deliver his Literacy Kicks programme, a 6-session workshop looking at all the key skills needed Read more…
Our unit in English this half term is factual guided tours. The first tour we are going to write about is water around the world. For one of our experience days we learnt about the water cycle and created our own mini water cycles.
During our English lessons this half term we are looking at writing our own guided tours. The first tour we are going to write about is a tour all about water around the world. For our experience days we looked at The water cycle. First we listening to a book Read more…
Thank you to all the parents who attended shared learning. It was great see parents and children sharing the reading of our text -Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We had lots of fun playing Kahoot, children and parents did really well working together and answering the questions about the text Read more…
After 6 weeks of working with sports journalist, Gareth Walker, Year 6 produced their own opinion pieces are the importance of winning. We were also able to have a Q&A with Gareth around his role and a career in writing and journalism.
