What is blood made up of? In this lesson we learned what makes up our blood. We found that our blood is 55% plasma, <1% white blood cells and platelets and 44% red blood cells. We made an artificial ‘blood sample’ using vegetable oil, syrup, food colouring and milk to Read more
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