Outdoor learning
Jack and the Beanstalk
This week we have been reading ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. We have been reading the story, acting it out and then we planted our own beanstalk.
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…
Forest school
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…
After school club
Tackling gender stereotypes
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…
After school club
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…
After school club
Craft club
Well done to everyone who took part in craft club this half-term. We had lots of fun completing activities such as making Christmas tree decorations, wooden gonks, cupcake decorating, paper aeroplanes and much more. We have had to use, and have improved, many of our essential skills such as listening Read more…
British Values
Care home choir performance
Thank you for choir children who came today to perform for the elderly at the care home. They really enjoyed our performance
Art & Design
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…
Careers Related Learning
Forest School
This week, Year 2 Elm enjoyed their first forest school session. They went down to the forest school area and created nature pictures using our finger painting. We then worked on our new skills builder skill of problem solving and worked in pairs to do an autumn scavenger hunt around Read more…
Geography
Map work
We began our Geography lesson looking at different maps and why we use them. We then looked at different symbols on maps and what a key is used for. Next we explored Kayden’s garden then when we returned to class we made a Birds Eye view of the garden. Afterwards Read more…