This term our topic is Julia Donaldson. Each week we will read a different story written by Julia Donaldson and our first week was Zog! The children learnt what an author was and how we will be looking at the same author each week until Christmas. In the story, Zog Read more…
Our English focus over the next few weeks is based around the Christmas advert ‘My Christmas Star’. The children really enjoyed watching the video clip, with many children dancing along, too! Yesterday, we worked with a partner, using a thesaurus to describe Jasmine and Dad’s feelings using interesting adjectives. Today, Read more…
Over the past few weeks, we have been carrying out lots of activities based around the story On The Way Home, by Jill Murphy. The children enjoyed listening to the story and then had lots of fun acting it out. Then, they came up with lots of insightful questions Read more…
As our WW2 topic drew to a close, the children celebrated the end of the war in style. After looking at some of the most important and influential speeches in history, from the likes of Sir Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King, Year 6 wrote their own VE speeches and Read more…
After a successful Macmillan coffee morning, which raised over £170, St Luke’s still had a few tasty donations left over. Staff took the remaining cakes and treats to Roeacre Court sheltered housing to help contribute to their coffee morning and provide some extra treats for residents and their visiting family Read more…
As it is our last week in school and the sun has been shining, we decided to spend part of our afternoon up in Kaden’s garden. We had fun exploring the new plants, checking on our crops and watching the wildlife, spotting lots of frogs and tadpoles and watching the Read more…
As part of our ID topic, we have been collecting data about our class. We have taken significant measurements of each member of the class and recorded them on a table. From there, we have begun to present the data effectively on a range of graphs and charts. This has Read more…
To begin our ID topic, which is all about us and who we are, we sketched ourselves by identifying the key characteristics of our faces. We looked at our eyes, hair, nose and mouth, paying attention to size, shape and colour. We used half of our own face as a Read more…
Inspired by the memory of Stephen Lawrence, Year 6 looked at the facts around an issue that has unfortunately become more prominent in recent months: the rise in knife crime. We used Newsround’s investigations and animations to learn about the facts and figures around knife crime and hear recounts Read more…
The Arty-Fact Theatre Company visited our school this morning and we were lucky enough to get to watch their production of Oliver Twist. Thank you for coming and sharing it with us – we all really enjoyed it!