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.
During session four of our Literacy Kicks workshops, we looked at the role of a sub editor and how they edit submitted news reports before publishing. We edited a news article about the growth of E-sports. Each session, we focus on a different Paralympian. Today’s was an Iranian sitting volleyball Read more
This week’s SMSC assembly was about tackling gender stereotypes in careers. KS1 pupils considered what a builder and a florist may look like before meeting Kimberley and her female colleagues who work in construction and then Jonathon a celebrity floral designer. In KS2 children got a peek into some familiar Read more
We have started the year with our new class text ‘The suitcase’. During English we have been ordering the story, describing how the characters would be feeling and then we picked 4 or 5 really important things we would pack in our suitcase if we went into Space. For our Read more