Adventurers Collective Worship

I was very proud of Adventurers for leading collective worship this week in school.

The children worked very hard to produce posters, pictures, prayers and leaflets to tell the rest of the school about Earth Hour.

On Saturday 26th March 2022 at 8.30pm, millions of people across the world will take part in Earth Hour by switching off their lights for an hour.

Earth Hour unites people across the world who are passionate about our planet.

So why don’t you join us and SWITCH OFF FOR YOUR WORLD.

Out and About!

The Learners have been out and about this week and have enjoyed a lot of outdoor learning.

This half-term our Science topic is Plants. On Monday, set with pots, compost, trowels and seeds we enjoyed planting our own herbs and flowers in our outdoor area. The sun was shining and we worked together to dig, plant and sow. The children had such enthusiasm, we definitely have some budding gardeners in Learners Class.

On Tuesday, we picked the BEST day to visit the forest, the weather was warm and Spring was most certainly in the air. With our hedgehog hero hats on, we began to assess our school surroundings for encouraging hedgehogs. We listed potential hazards and also things that were already hedgehog friendly. We delighted in making some warm, cosy areas that hedgehogs might like to visit when they come out of hibernation – we are expecting some actual hedgehog houses to arrive soon and are very excited about this!

On Wednesday, we started writing our stories, based on the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. The writing produced so far has been wonderful! The children have been working really hard to use interesting vocabulary to engage their reader. Early next week they will be reading their stories to Pioneers. They are in for a real treat!

Spring is on the way and we have been so lucky to have had lots of outdoor learning this week.

Learners love to learn!

 

 

Fire Engine Visit

Today was the day the fire engine and fire brigade came to visit Explorers class. The children were extremely excited and very intrigued to look around the Fire-Engine. Fireman Jay brought his crew along to show some of the equipment they use when going to an emergency. Fireman Joe put on the protective clothing and breathing equipment to show the children what they wear when going into a fire. Fireman Jay and Frazor showed the children some of the equipment that was inside the Fire-Engine and talked about the machinery to cut vehicles, the pump to retrieve water, one of the hose pipes and the ladders to help people stuck in tall buildings. We then listened to the sirens and watched the flashing lights! What a great experience for the children.The children received a fire-man Ted sticker. What a morning!

Who’s that Trip Trapping Over My Bridge?

This week has been all about Trolls,bridges and goats,making plans and writing labels. It has been a wonderful week of learning together and our classroom in ablaze with writing and photographs and paintings. The floor is a bit wet too as we had to try out some Goat Boats to allow the goats another way across the water to the lush,green grass.

We discovered that like us,all trolls are different and all trolls are beautiful so we have started work on some troll description.

Our Christian Value is Justice and we spent a while talking about the story of the Hare and the Tortoise. Great chat.

Very Happy Learning

Learning in Forest School

Adventurers had a super afternoon in Forest School completing science investigations and creating a setting for a story.

In science we have been learning about the part played by evaporation in the water cycle and how the rate of evaporation is linked to temperature. To explore this further we created two puddles in the playground, one in the sun and one in the shade and left them for one hour to see what happened. After this time we discovered the one in the sun had evaporated whereas the one in the shade was still wet. We also set up two washing lines, one in the sun and one in the shade and hung out cloths to see which dried the first.

We also enjoyed creating our own settings linked to the story book ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker and even created a river to sail our red boats down.

Later in the week in DT we drew a setting from the story ‘Journey’ and made a little red boat move backwards and forwards by using a slider and paper fastener on a fixed pivot. The children were very pleased with the end result!

 

Marching in to March.

This week, we have enjoyed another visit to the mobile library in the village. We were able to return our previous books and pick some fresh, exciting stories to enjoy in class. The children were extremely well-behaved and a credit to Learners Class. When we got back to  school, we found a quiet place to enjoy our chosen books. We will enjoy a book each day and vote each Friday for our favourite.

We have ben thinking about road safety this week. We watched a short video and discussed why road safety is important. We learned how to cross the road safely using the Green Cross Code ethos STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, THINK. We created some road safety posters to show our learning.

We are continuing to learn about the features that make a good story. This week, we have worked hard to use language that will make our writing more interesting – we particularly enjoyed learning about alliteration! With all of our new skills in hand, we are excited to complete writing our own stories next week.

We are SO delighted to be taking on the school role of ‘Hedgehog Heroes’. Sleights has become a hedgehog friendly school and Learners will be finding out just how we can help to preserve our cute, spiky friends. We will be working with The British Hedgehog Preservation Society to arm ourselves with information and top tips of how we can help! We will keep you posted of our actions and progress in the coming weeks!

We hope you enjoy finding out about what Learners Class are learning about each week!

 

Happy World Book Day

World Book Day was wonderful and the maths that went along with it was wonderful too.

Everyone enjoyed a selection of maths books and we began w The Door Bell Rang by Pat Hutchins. Then we took a look at The Button Box and arranged and sorted,poured and filled.

We looked at Zero and One and painted numbers to use to build our fairy story based number book.

We finished the day with a look at How Many Legs. 

So much maths and so much fun.

Happy Learning.

Celebrating World Book Day

Adventurers had a fantastic day celebrating World book Day. They really enjoyed talking about their favourite books and showing each other their costumes. There was a real buzz in school during collective worship and play times when all the children got together!

In class, we spent the day re-writing and illustrating the Fairytale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. The whole class helped with the story by changing the plot, character traits and the settings. Our story took place in Sleights where a friendly little wolf helped Red Riding Hood find her way to school. Their journey together included lots of maths activities and questions we we hoped would engage the reader.

The children enjoyed being videoed reading their story so it could be shared on Tapestry.

A fresh half-term.

Welcome back everyone, i hope you had a great half-term.

Learners have been busy as always this week.

We have begun our English work around narrative and have enjoyed retelling The Three Billy Goats Gruff using a story map. We  are excited to develop our own stories, based on this popular story, as the weeks go on.

In maths we are learning about 3D shapes this week. There has been a lot of discussion about the names and properties of 3D shapes.

In Science, our new topic is plants. On Tuesday we looked carefully at daffodils in class and were able to draw and label the parts of a plant.

In RE, we have a new value, Justice. We have delighted in being able to resume our whole school Collective Worship in the Hall, this has been lovely to enjoy and learn together again.

We REALLY enjoyed World Book Day this week. We dressed up as a character from a book – and we looked amazing! We worked so hard to create our own class book, with a maths theme (which was personalised to Sleights School). We were SO proud to produce ‘Odd Bob and Even Steven Go To Sleights School’. We worked on one page each and the result was tremendous – a real team effort. The book will go in our library for all to enjoy!

Great work Learners!

 

Wearing Red to Support The Children’s Heart Unit Fund

Adventurers enjoyed wearing anything red to help raise money for CHUF. We learnt a little bit  more about this charity then coloured in and cut out hearts to hang in our bedrooms at home. Some children even wrote a prayer to share with others in their class.

We enjoyed finishing our newspaper articles about the Iron Man visiting Sleights School. Watch out for sightings of him around the Whitby area! The children also finished making and then painting their own Iron man which will be making their way home shortly.