In Year 6 during Art Week, children thoroughly enjoyed creating their own artist study of Vincent van Gogh. We learned that he was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter and artist; we learned all about his life, his artwork and how he became one of the founders of Impressionism. Year 6 used Read more…
A fabulous Summer fair with a great turn out.
Yesterday, Year 6 had a great time working on five different STEM challenges for the Great Science Share. The Great Science Share allowed the children to develop their own scientific questions, carry out their own enquiries and to gather evidence to answer their questions. The children had five challenges: balloon Read more…
Year 6 have been challenged to design, make and evaluate their own playgrounds in DT. The children have spent the past two days producing their own designs in groups focusing on the design criteria. The playground had to be: fun, safe, something to hide, something to climb up and something Read more…
Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed their new topic in Art, focusing on photo opportunities. Yesterday, using the iPad, children took pictures of fruit in the style of Edward Weston. The children used the photo editing app to edit their images. Have a look at our work.
Year 6 created their own piece of photomontage after taking inspiration from Hannah Hoch and Chris Plowman. Have a look at our pieces of art work.
On Monday year 6 enjoyed a full day of celebrating completing their SATs. All of the staff at St Luke’s are immensely proud of the children for their hard work, commitment and resilience last week when completing their tests. The children have worked so hard leading up to their SATs Read more…
Year 6 have taken part in 6 workshops across 3 weeks, looking at the role of sports journalists, guided by journalist, Gareth Walker. Taking a different historical sporting moment each session, Gareth has guided the children through the process of how to create a quality piece of journalistic writing. From Read more…
Both year 6 classes have enjoyed completing a scavenger hunt today in the sun looking at all aspects of arithmetic in preparation for their SATs next week. Well done.
As part of our preparation for SATs, we have looked at how we can recap familiar topics through different games and investigations. We’ve looked at using fractions, decimals and percentages to create patterns based on a set of rules and clues, dice games to practise multiplication and division and Read more…