Lunar New Year

This week we have been learning about Lunar new year celebrations. We have enjoyed reading stories and writing about the animals in the Great Race. We have also tried some Chinese foods. The children also enjoyed being creative and making some Chinese decorations. Outside, the children acted out the great Read more…

Signs of winter

As we are currently studying the topic ‘weather’ in Science, and ‘Hot and Cold places in Geography’, we took the opportunity to wrap up warm and head outdoors to explore the changes created by our recent , very cold, snowy and frosty weather. We looked closely at the frost and Read more…

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…

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