Year 5 Pine had their first forest school session of the half term today. We had the perfect weather for a fun afternoon of shelter building and den building. We worked on our team building skills and reintroduced the rules of the forest.
Year 2 had lots of fun in forest school, in the sun. They made a wormery and created some creative habitats to link to our Science topic on Habitats.
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
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
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
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
We had lots of fun during our first Forest school in Year 2. We completed lots of different activities. We did some finger painted, we went on a scavenger hunt in pairs, we explored forest school area, but hunting and even climbed some trees. We also wrote the quality of Read more
Willows have had lots of fun in Forest School this week. We used our crafts skills to create Art work related to our Geography topic ‘Weather Patterns’.
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
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.