As part of our new art unit, Year 6 have been looking at the work of Edward Weston and how he uses colours and close up images to create abstract art. He creates pieces using a technique called Macro Photography: a techniques which involves taking pictures up close to Read more…
On Monday year 6 enjoyed a full day of celebrating completing their SATs. All of the staff at St Luke’s are immensely proud of the children for their hard work, commitment and resilience last week when completing their tests. The children have worked so hard leading up to their SATs Read more…
Both year 6 classes have enjoyed completing a scavenger hunt today in the sun looking at all aspects of arithmetic in preparation for their SATs next week. Well done.
To help revisit key grammatical skills, Year 6 looked at playing ‘Zombies v Soldiers’ as part of our Grammar lesson. We had to identify different world classes, conjunctions, tenses and more! The more questions answered correctly, the more the zombies could move forward, with the soldiers trying to fight back! Read more…
Year 6 have taken part in 6 workshops across 3 weeks, looking at the role of sports journalists, guided by journalist, Gareth Walker. Taking a different historical sporting moment each session, Gareth has guided the children through the process of how to create a quality piece of journalistic writing. From Read more…
As part of our preparation for SATs, we have looked at how we can recap familiar topics through different games and investigations. We’ve looked at using fractions, decimals and percentages to create patterns based on a set of rules and clues, dice games to practise multiplication and division and Read more…
As part of British Science Week, Year 6 created water-powered rockets, looking at energy stores, how energy changes from one store to another, and how rockets are designed to fly more efficiently. After designing and building our rockets, we part-filled them with water and used a pump to build up Read more…
Year 6 looked at solving problems by finding missing angles. We had 16 envelopes with different levels of challenging questions, earning more points by challenging ourselves to try and tackle the most difficult questions. Our work to solve the problems was excellent and we were really able to demonstrate our Read more…
Year 2, 5 and 6 had a fantastic day today with a focus on Islamic art. We were extremely lucky to have Razwan Ul-Haq, who is an artist, visit us. We started the day in the hall, where Razwan, shared some of his fantastic artwork with us and we discussed Read more…
Year 6 have had a lovely time outside with our mascot ‘Motty’. They played lots of games in teams focusing on decimals and fractions. Well done all.