St Luke's CE Primary School, Sway

A massive thank you to Pennyfarthing Homes for their incredibly kind donation of a 3-metre pipe for our outdoor play area! 🚜💨

Not only did they donate the pipe, but they also delivered it and helped us move some soil to get it into place. This is going to be transformed into an amazing tunnel for the children to crawl through and play in.

Next steps: We will be covering it with soil, and the ultimate plan is to add a slide on top! 🏔️🛝

We are so grateful for local community support like this. Thank you, Pennyfarthing Homes! 👏❤️

Transformation

Teamwork makes the dream work! 🌟 Year 2 and Year 3 came together this week to share their latest work and learn from one another. Brilliant peer-to-peer mentoring and plenty of proud smiles all round! 📚🤝

This week, Year 3 had great fun practising how to write dialogue correctly using inverted commas. Before writing their dialogue, they teamed up in pairs and used their own lollipop stick characters to role play conversations about a day out at the beach. It was wonderful to see such enthusiasm as Year 3 combined play with learning!

☀️ Welcome back, everyone! We hope you all had a lovely break and managed to enjoy the glorious weather we had over the May half-term.

Hold onto your hats, because this final half-term of the school year is packed to the brim with exciting events! Here is a sneak peek of what we have coming up:

🏆 Sports Day & summer sporting competitions
🎭 The Year 6 Production & their highly anticipated Residential Trip!
🚌 Exciting class trips across the school
🎵 Rocksteady Concert & our spectacular school Musical Fiesta
👋 Welcoming our new Year R children & transition days for everyone to meet their new teachers
💃 The FOSLSS End of Term Disco!

It’s going to be a busy, fun-filled few weeks making unforgettable summer memories. Let’s make this final term the best one yet! 🌟

🐛 From tiny caterpillars to beautiful butterflies! 🦋

Our Year 5 children have loved watching the incredible journey of metamorphosis over the last few weeks. The excitement in the classroom today was unmatched as our new winged friends finally made their appearance!

What a brilliant, hands-on way to watch science come to life. ✨

Year 1 have been channeling their inner Jackson Po***ck! Instead of paintbrushes, our young artists used paint, marbles, and a whole lot of energy to create these incredible abstract masterpieces.

By tilting boxes and rolling the paint-covered marbles across the paper, they explored "action painting" and created some truly unique, energetic art.

Watch out, Tate Modern—we have some future art superstars in Year 1!

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This week, the Eco-Warriors led worships, raising awareness of the importance of bees. To help bees and other pollinating insects, we now have a brand new area prepared for a wildflower meadow. During the week, all classes have been sowing seeds. We can't wait to see the results!

As part of our Outdoor Classroom Community Day, Year 2 took their learning into the fresh air for a brilliant morning of Reading, Writing, and Spelling.

The children traded desks for the school grounds, using nature to inspire their creative writing, practicing their phonics under the trees, and sharing stories in our outdoor reading circles. It’s amazing how a little fresh air can spark so much big imagination!

A huge thank you to everyone who helps make our outdoor learning spaces so special.

Our Year 3 children had a fantastic time baking delicious biscuits this week! They showed great teamwork, creativity and measuring skills and the whole room smelt amazing too. Well done, Year 3! 🍪✨