We had a fantastic day today celebrating 50 years of Samuel Lucas School!
We learnt about what the school was like in the 1970s and 80s from some special visitors – a former teacher from the school and a parent of a child who started at the school in 1974. We learnt that many things are still the same – yellow squared exercise books for Maths and having to write the date and title and underline it with a ruler. It was a relief to hear that the cane was never used at Samuel Lucas – especially as the former teacher remembered teaching some of the parents of our Year 5 children!
We learnt about music from the 1970s and art through the decades looking at the geometric art of Nabil Nahas from the 60s, zines from the 80s and 90s and the huge installation art of Rachel Whiteread and Christo and Jean-Claude from the turn of the century. The children experimented with creating their own geometric art.
In DT we learnt about the history of Lego from its origins as a high-quality wooden toy manufacturer through to the creation of a play ‘system’. We learnt that the real revolution was the invention of the brick incorporating tubes underneath its block shape so that the blocks could hold together rather than just balancing on top of each other as they did initially. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen – thank you! Samuel Lucas shares its 50th birthday with another invention I’m sure we can’t image living without – the mini-figure! Also 50 this year.
We all enjoyed dressing up, having a special picnic lunch together on the field and some fabulous performances of music from different decades from each of the year groups. What a special day!!
Your children are also bringing home their achievement certificates for the completion of the Sadie mindfulness course earlier in the term today. Neelam our mentor enjoyed working with Walnut and Maple tremendously – they were respectful, engaged and curious throughout the course. A timely reminder that we are equipping them with skills they can use to approach any challenge thoughtfully and with focus, including the all-too-fast approaching end of the year and the step-up to Year 6.
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