After winning the Rochdale Dance Festival, St Luke’s were invited to attend the Greater Manchester Dance Festival at The Edge in Wigan. During the day, the children watched professional dancers perform and took part in three different workshops, including contemporary and carnival. These sessions gave them the chance to try Read more
Over the past few weeks, 14 of our Year 5 and 6 girls have been taking part in our afterschool dance club, where they have been working hard to prepare for an exciting inter-school dance competition. Throughout the club, the girls focused on developing the Skills Builder essential skills of Read more
This morning we were very lucky to have two special visitors into school. Children in KS1 and KS2 had a very informative assembly about Islam. Soban and Burhan came into school to teach us some Arabic greetings, teach us about the 5 pillars of Islam and about fasting. Children were Read more
In Year 5 this half term, we are carrying out a topic on life cycles and reproduction. We started our brand new topic yesterday where we began by looking at the reproductive system of a flower. We discussed the life cycle of a plant and looked at each stage of Read more
This half-term in after-school club, we have been developing our essential skill of problem solving through a range of engaging and active challenges. Pupils have taken part in activities such as the Human Knot, where teamwork and communication were key to untangling themselves, as well as exciting code-breaking tasks that Read more
In STEM Club this week, our task was called ‘Bridge Blunder’. The children were given the task of building a bridge that would stretch over a 20cm span. The children were only able to use paper, scissors and sellotape to make their creation. This was quite the challenge! Once the Read more
Year 5 have been continuing their art topic this week on installation art. We recapped what we had learnt about the artist we have been focusing on this half term – Cai Guo Quang. We discussed what installation art is, where it takes place, whether it is permanent or temporary, Read more
This week has been all about toast! The children have learnt about ‘Murphy’s Law’ that ‘if something can go wrong it will go wrong!’ They have investigated the question, ‘Why does toast always land buttered side down?’ We have had great fun investigating whether or not the thickness of the Read more
In our science lesson today, Year 5 Juniper were looking at time. We have been looking at the Earth and Space this half term and have already looked into day and night, but today we delved further to find out how we tell the time. We learnt all about sundials Read more
Today we became predators and preys! Some of us were snowshoe hares. We were safe in our burrows but we had to leave to gather food if we were captured by a lynx we were unfortunately out. Some of us were Lynx’s. If we didn’t capture a hare we would Read more