English
Poetry workshop
Today year 3 joined thousands of children across the uk to join in a poetry workshop. We created a nonsense poem and were lucky enough to perform our poem online
Reading
Secret Reader
Reception were very excited this morning to have a secret reader. May’s Dad came to read all of Reception one of his favourite stories. We all really enjoyed listening to the story!
English
The Whale
In English this morning, we started our new unit which is the book The Whale by Ethan and Vita Murrow. We had an experience lesson where we watched videos and researched information about different types of whales. We were put into focus groups where we created a poster about a Read more
English
Poetry and Local Dialect
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
English
No Problem – Benjamin Zephaniah
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
Careers Related Learning
KS1 Athletics – Sports Journalist Report
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
Breakfast & After school club
Questions
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
English
Planning a ghost story
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.
Careers Related Learning
Sports Journalist Donates Books to St Luke’s
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
Breakfast & After school club
Water Cycles
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.