Visit to London

A report about our day out in the centre of London is now on the main school website at stmatthewsluton.wordpress.com or click here to go straight to the Year 5 section of the site.

Our first podcast

Our first Year 5 podcast is published today. Recorded live in London on our marvellous day out, visiting St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Millennium Bridge and the Tate Modern art gallery, then along the Silver Jubilee Walk on the South Bank of the River Thames all the way to Westminster Bridge. Click here to go to [...]

Comic Life

I have been experimenting with a new computer program called Comic Life. As you can see from the image below, it is for making comics using photos, text, captions and speech bubbles. It is really easy to use and the finished comics look extremely impressive. The image above is a compressed, resized copy of the [...]

London Calling

What a fantastic day! Year 5 enjoyed a marvellous trip to London today. After completing our registers and getting everything ready, we daparted at approximately 9.15am.  The journey was somewhat uneventful and we were not hindered by too much traffic; consequently we reached St. Paul’s Cathedral at about 11.00am.  We spent about 90 minutes looking [...]

Weather forecast

I have had a look on the BBC website to see what weather we can expect for our trip on Wednesday. As you can see for the next three days, London will have sunny intervals … no sign of any rain. Let’s hope it stays that way.

London

Our first visit of the year will be a day trip to London on Wednesday 16 September 2009. We will be visiting St. Paul’s Cathedral, then crossing the River Thames by the Millennium Bridge, to visit the Tate Modern art gallery.  Other notable buildings that we might get a glimpse of include Tower Bridge, Shakespeare’s Globe [...]