Year 5 and 6 performed amazingly last week. They have been working hard with their music teacher each week. They have learnt how to play lots of different chords and put them together to perform a variety of songs. I think the audience were very impressed and enjoyed singing along Read more…
As part of creating an information booklet on food chains and webs of the Arctic regions, Year 6 looked at how artists use accurate guidelines and proportions when sketching. They looked at how to use simple shapes to help guide them to sketching an accurate outline, as well as Read more…
This week, we have begun to look at order of operations and using brackets. We explored BODMAS and how there is a strict order we must follow. We also looked at how we could use brackets to change the outcome of a calculation in which the numbers and symbols Read more…
Year 6 have been studying the physical geography of both the Arctic and Antarctica. After looking at how some animals have adapted to be able to survive there, we then looked at how we can construct food chains to identify predators, prey, primary and secondary consumers and producers. We tracked Read more…
Wow Rochdale music services what an amazing assembly, thank you so much! The children thoroughly enjoyed you coming in and were really keen to answer questions about the instruments you were playing and talk about them. You have inspired a lot of children to continue to play their instruments or Read more…
This half term, we have started our new topic: Frozen Kingdom. We will be studying the Arctic and Antarctica and have begun our new book, The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club. We began by making predictions based on the cover alone, before moving on to write our own blurb about and Read more…
As our WW2 topic drew to a close, the children celebrated the end of the war in style. After looking at some of the most important and influential speeches in history, from the likes of Sir Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King, Year 6 wrote their own VE speeches and Read more…
Yesterday was World Mental Health awareness day. At St Luke’s, supporting good mental health and wellbeing is very important. Today the whole school took part in various sessions to celebrate this day. As part of this, all KS2 took part in a live lesson from BBC teach linked with TES. Read more…
As part of our WW2 topic, we have been studying the book ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’. We looked at writing newspaper reports based on an air raid that the two main characters, Olive and Cliffe, found themselves caught up in whilst visiting the theatre. After reporting on the event, Read more…
Year 6 are looking at learning the vocabulary needed to write or have a conversation in French discussing who they are, their interests and their family. We looked at the French translations for family members and played a range of games to learn the vocabulary. We know the French Read more…