Juniper enjoyed a visit to Newhouse Academy yesterday. They had a fantastic time. We started by making pizzas in Food Technology and then went on to make a keyring in Design Technology. Both the teachers were really impressed with their cookery skills and their sanding, gluing and clamping skills. Read more
Well done to all of the children that represented St Luke’s this year in a variety of competitions. Our children had a great time at the Heywood Sports Partnership presentation last night, and were only too happy to show off their medals and trophies today.
Year 5 Juniper were very lucky this morning to have Islamic artist Razwan Ul Haq visit. Razwan is an award winning Arabic Calligrapher and has spent his life creating visual art out of distilling traditional Arabic Calligraphy techniques. Razwan showed the children lots of examples of his work, including a Read more
This week is Art week at St Luke’s and one of our tasks in Year 5 was digital mark making. The children looked at the different careers that digital mark making can lead to and discussed what they would like to be in the future. We watched an example of Read more
Year 5 have enjoyed a day out at the cinema and a round of crazy golf. Everyone had a great time and especially enjoyed their pizza and chips afterwards. Their behaviour throughout the day was absolutely amazing and they really did do St Luke’s proud!
This afternoon Year 5 enjoyed a visit to Heywood library. We had fun exploring the books and taking time out to enjoy some reading for pleasure. The children have each checked out a book that they are able to enjoy in school. Well done Year 5 for setting such a Read more
This half term Juniper’s geography topic is all about ‘Energy and Sustainability’. This afternoon we have looked at what ‘sustainability’ means. The children brought a wealth of knowledge about this to the lesson, discussing how we look after our planet and what we are doing to destroy it. We looked Read more
The Digital leader had a fantastic opportunity to explore how to merge Computing, Design Technology and Science in an extremely fun and creative way. After learning how to connect the microcontroller by creating an electric circuit, the children then wrote programs using the free software (a block based language, similar Read more
Juniper have been discussing First Aid and its importance this afternoon. All the children were extremely knowledgeable about what to do in an emergency situation. We looked closely at how to help someone who was unresponsive and breathing/not breathing. There were some very sensible suggestions and we all now have Read more
This weeks forest school session was made even more fun with the addition of s’mores made on the fire. The children really enjoyed creating flower bombs using soil, clay and seeds. We played lots of team games and hunted for different insects. Year 5 had a great afternoon! Thank you Read more