Author: Scott Grason-Taylor

Leaders have worked incredibly hard this week and so much excellent learning has taken place.

In English, we began our new unit on adverts. At the end of the unit, Leaders will be writing adverts persuading people to visit Whitby. To start, we looked at an advert about Scarborough and identified the audience and purpose before identifying the persuasive devices in the text. The leaders then considered their favourite places in Whitby and wrote about them using a range of openers.

In science, the children learned about what is in the universe. Each group was given a set of information that they were tasked with learning. Some members of the group then became teachers, with the rest of the children moving to a different group to be taught their information. Children then returned to their original group to feedback on what they had learned with others. It was amazing to see the children teaching one and other and lots of new facts were learned!

On Friday morning, it was brilliant to have families join us in the classroom again. We are looking forward to seeing more families for the second session on Monday.

It has been a great first full week back for Leaders class.

On Tuesday, the children had their first swimming session of the term. The children demonstrated excellent water confidence and swimming skills. Tuesday was certainly a busy day for Leaders as they also had dance with Hannah Verity in the afternoon.

On Thursday afternoon, after a break over the summer, the children were reunited with their instruments. It was lovely to hear the sound of music throughout the school.

The children have also been busy writing up information for their Tour of Britain posters in English. On Friday, the children began publishing their posters and have made a great start.

In maths, the children have been tackling place value and applying their learning to reasoning and problem solving questions.

In PSHCE the children considered how to keep their personal information safe online and applied what they had learned to scenarios they may face online. Some excellent discussion took place.

Finally, to finish a busy week in school, Leaders travelled to Whitby Sixth Form on Friday afternoon to take part in a cross country event. The children demonstrated excellent enthusiasm during the event and represented the school brilliantly.

Well done, Leaders!

The children have had a brilliant first week back in school.

This week, marked the whole school coming back together in the hall for lunch for the first time since 2020. Leaders were tasked with taking on the role of servers and have done a fabulous job so far. On Wednesday, children also paired up with children in Pioneers to walk from school to watch the Tour of Britain. The children were great role models for the pioneers, demonstrating exactly what it means to be a leader. 

The children have worked extremely hard in all lessons this week. In maths, the children have tackled Roman numerals and place value, working with numbers up to 1,000,000 and 10,000,000. 

In English, our writing focus has been on The Tour of Britain. The children have used a range of conjunctions in their writing so far and we are looking forward to completing this work next week.

To finish off our week, the children researched their focus artist for this half term, Esther Mahlangu. We are looking forward to learning more about her artwork and using it to inspire ours. 

Next week marks the return of swimming lessons and music with Ralph, which we are all looking forward to. Keep an eye on our class blog page for updates!