Year 6 explored the language used within the Dreadful Menace poem, looking at clarifying the meaning of the language used as well as looking for synonyms to create a bank of vocabulary to use within our writing.
Last year our school council set up a link with a local carehome. This week, our new school council re-established their link by visiting the residents with treats and games. The children showed such kindness, respect and maturity. We are very proud of them 😊
At the start of this half-term, the school council were looking through the suggestions pupils had posted in the council’s suggestion box, and found one that asked if we could have somewhere sheltered outdoors so Forest School sessions could still take place even in really awful weather. The council members Read more…
This week, St Luke’s are celebrating Random acts of Kindness day. As part of the activities, we decided to spread kindness to our linked care-home Springbank. Some children from KS2, selected for excellent behaviour and attitudes to learning this half-term, attended the care-home to have ‘a cake and a chat’ Read more…
Today, our School Council went on our first visit to Springbank care home. As this was our first visit, the school council children took some games and colourings to get to know the residents. As you can see from the pictures, both the children and the residents absolutely loved their Read more…
After noticing high volumes of traffic whilst walking St Luke’s church, Year 6 conducted a traffic survey to investigate how busy the road was outside of school. After some alarming results, the children decided that it would be a good idea to write letters that could be sent to Read more…
As part of our Harvest celebrations, the school council sent out a parent- mail, and put up posters asking for donations for the food bank. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated. Mr Singleton will be dropping these off today and I’m sure it will be very much Read more…
In our meetings this half-term, the school council decided they would like to do more to support our local community. They came up with a lovely idea of linking up with a local care home, discussing reasons such as ‘Some people in care homes don’t have any visitors’, ‘My grandma Read more…
A huge thank you from the school council to everyone who supported us in raising money for charity by buying tickets for our Easter raffle. We have raised an incredible £634 for our chosen charities! This has been split equally between the Turkey/Syria earthquake and the Ukraine, with each receiving Read more…
Thank you to all the parents who donated to charity for year 3’s random act of kindness. If you still want to contribute please bring donations in by Friday 4th March