This week we made nature pictures! They used leaves and other bits they found in the garden to create their masterpieces. To finish our final gardening club session for this half term, we played a few games of hide and seek. They loved it and some children got very creative Read more…
This week St Luke’s celebrated World Mental Health Day. Children came to school dressed in Yellow and raised money for YoungMinds. The children also took part in various activities throughout the day based on ‘The 5 Ways To Wellbeing’. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far, we have Read more…
As a follow on from Hello Yellow on Monday, Year 6 looked at how they could express the 5 ways to wellbeing through art. They used a piece by Lubaini Himid, named Five, to inspire their use of colours, tones, shapes and lines. They also applied the skills they Read more…
In RE, we have been continuing to think about why some people believe in God. We recapped the terms atheist, theist and agnostic. We then went on a walk around the school grounds and found amazing things. We found leaves that had 5 different colours on them. We found living Read more…
During our computing lessons, the children have been looking at the effects of too much screen time. All children in Year 6 completed a survey at home to find out how much they actually spent on their screens (TV, phones, iPads, computers etc). The children then completed a poster on Read more…
As part of our Online Safety topic, Year 6 recorded their screen time and activity time across a week. We then looked at creating fields before adding the class data to a database. Finally, we were able to analyse the data by creating a range of graphs and Read more…
As part of our topic ‘The Great Fire of London’ the children have been learning about fire safety and why The Great Fire of London spread so quickly. This week we had some special visitors come to school to help us with our learning. Some came into our classroom to Read more…
This half term in RE we have been reflecting on and discussing reasons why people do or do not believe in God. Today our focus was to explain why to many Christians the natural world is evidence for a belief in God. We explored Kaden’s garden and the children went Read more…
Year 1 Oaks read the bible story “Jesus’ Special Friends” and talked about what makes a good friend. We used fruit to represent our Christian values and what we value in a friendship. The blueberries represented kindness, strawberries represented love and so on. At the end we sprinkled ‘happiness’ onto Read more…
In Year 6, we looked at how we can improve our teamwork. Activity The challenge was to build a bridge to span 30 cm using only newspaper and tape or art straws and tape. We then attempted to place 3 toy cars on the bridge to see if they could Read more…