Today, a group of children from Years 2-6, received their training to become student ‘Mental Health Champions’ for St Luke’s. They spent their morning completing a workshop delivered by One Goal, who are a child centred health and well-being company that specialise in helping primary schools improve mental health and Read more…
Year 6 have started a new topic in Geography – Fieldwork. We have been looking at what fieldwork is; why geographers carry out fieldwork; where you can carry out fieldwork; what the purpose of it is? We looked at the examples of fieldwork that are being carried out by geographers around Read more…
Congratulations to our new STEM ambassadors! Their role in school is to promote science, plan, carry out and evaluate different scientific enquiries. Yesterday, our STEM ambassadors investigated ‘How far can a paper aeroplane fly’ as part of the Ogden Trust. The children changed the size of the aeroplanes they made Read more…
Congratulations to our new school council! This year, our school council will be running slightly differently. We are now working with ‘Smart School Council’ which gives us access to digital tools that involve every pupil in decision making, social action and developing key skills for life. The school council will Read more…
This week St Luke’s have celebrated both anti-bullying week and Children in Need. Earlier in the week, we watched ‘The Big anti-bullying assembly’ and discussed what bullying is, who can support us if we are being bullied and and how we can help put a stop to bullying. Each class Read more…
In year one, we have been practising our yoga poses. It’s really fun, whilst being really good for our bodies and our minds too. After putting some visualization and calming techniques in to practise by the end of the lesson we feel very calm.
Throughout the day, Year 6 had to opportunity to remember those who lost their lives at war making a better life for us. Firstly, both classes walked to the local cenotaph to lay our schools’ poppy wreath. Children paid their respects by completing two minutes silence and then discussing why Read more…
On Friday, the whole school recognised and celebrated World Mental Health day by taking part in Hello Yellow to raise money for the fantastic Young Minds charity. The children came to school dressed in yellow, listened to assemblies that taught them about mental health, and took part in a range Read more…
Year 4 Hawthorn, designed, planned and created their own Saxon homes using a variety of different resources. The children worked in groups to create the a sturdy home for the Anglo-Saxons to live in. Well done.
We are Abi and Joel, two MSc student occupational therapists from Leeds Beckett University. We are currently working with St Luke’s primary school as part of a six-week role emerging placement. A role emerging placement requires students to be placed in a setting where there is no established occupational therapist Read more…