This morning Maple have been busy building! A lady from the school building project carried out a session with us all about ‘Structures’. We had to make tetrahedrons using the wooden sticks. We then got busy trying to make the biggest structure we could with them. The children all had Read more…
Year 4 Maple were busy today investigating how good we are at brushing our teeth properly. We’re pleased to report that everyone is doing a good job at brushing away plaque from their teeth!
What a fantastic day we have had at Magna! We have explored fire, air and water and completed a workshop on magnets and metals, which fit really well with the topic we have been studying this half-term. We have had so much fun!! So much so, that a few of Read more…
This week has been French and Art week at St Luke’s. In art, we looked at the artist Monet. We worked on Art techniques such as mixing colours and creating texture using tissue, newspaper and different brush strokes before creating a background for our final piece. We then used charcoal Read more…
To link in with our metals topic, we have been writing explanation texts for iRobots. We began by watching an award winning short film about a robot dog and discussed things such as its movements, how we understood its emotions and its relationship with its owner. We then wrote an Read more…
As part of our mighty metals topic we have looked at different types of metals and their properties including metals that easily rust. We then completed an experiment to see what happens to copper coins when placed in various liquids. Our recorded results showed that liquids that contain acid, sugar Read more…
As part of our mighty metals topic we have been learning about forces. We went to Queen’s Park to look at what forces were present in the playground. We then drew and labelled forces and contact or non-contact force on the equipment. We then focussed on the force friction by Read more…
In PSHE today, we looked at the statement ‘No way through isn’t true’. We first discussed what we though this meant and shared our ideas. Boris the heart smart and boot helped us to do this. We decided this meant that we should never give up and no matter how Read more…
In maths today, we began our next block of learning, which includes shapes, angles and rotation. In our lesson today we revised and deepened our knowledge of position, direction and movement from Year 2. To do this, the class split into 3 groups and each group completed a paractical, verbal Read more…
When Miss Lomax got into school this morning, she found something strange in the school grounds. Year 3 went to explore. We found a really large outline of what looked like a body but was much too big and oddly shaped. We questioned what it may be and how it Read more…