Rush Room opening

On Friday 13th December, we officially opened our outdoor classroom. We have named it ‘The Rush Room’ in memory of our Governor; Councillor Peter Rush. Peter’s family attended the opening and it was blessed by Bishop Mark. We are delighted that not only our pupils at St Luke’s will benefit Read more…

Reception – Stickman

This week, Reception were reading Stickman – we love Julia Donaldson stories and are so good at remembering the jobs of Authors and Illustrators, and what a title and blurb are. While reading stickman, we looked at the different seasons that we might see throughout the story and recognised signs Read more…

Forest school! Hawthorn

Yesterday the children had their first sessions of forest school of the year! The children were absolutely brilliant. The children worked well together to complete their activities. All staff commented how well behaved the children were during their time at forest school. The children were able to to learn how Read more…

Nature hunt for RE

Today in RE, we discussed how Christians believe that God created the world and all of the fantastic things you can find in nature. We went down to our forest school area and carried out a nature hunt. We talked about which amazing nature find was our favourite and why.

Forest Church

Today we had a fantastic first forest church session with Reverend Kirsty and Reverend Kirsten. The session was after school and parents joined in too. The children and their families explored the area looking for things that reminded them of their life journey. Everyone then created some fabulous artwork. One Read more…

This week, Year 4 Hawthorn enjoyed their first forest school session.  They went down to the forest school area and created flower bombs.

Forest art

The children enjoyed exploring nature and producing some fantastic art. They found a stick and practised measuring lengths of wool. The children then practised tying knots to fasten the wool onto the stick. The children showed fantastic resilience and didn’t give up. They are going to use their creations as Read more…