Category: Discoverers Class

Zambezi Sunrise Trust’s “Big Give Week”

Scott Grason-Taylor

We have had a very busy few weeks supporting our friends at the Zambezi Sunrise Trust. The children planned and delivered their own events to raise funds for the charity’s ongoing work for Linda Community School.

The Pioneers organised their own art exhibition. Families purchased the children’s art, as well as work with the young artists to create their own new pieces.

The Learners held a very successful movie night after school. They ate popcorn and enjoyed hot dogs, as they watched their chosen movie. Everything looked very cosy!

During an afternoon, the doors were opened for the Adventurers’ families, who came into school to play games, drink tea and Sunrise scones. It was great to see the event so well supported!

The Discoverers filled the school hall with games and activities for families to enjoy. Alongside the Leaders’ Teddy Tombola, the hall was jam packed, with families and children playing games and bidding for an exciting new teddy to take home. 

All of the funds raised over the events were being gathered as part of the Zambezi Sunrise Trust’s ‘Big Give Week’. The funds raised are being used to support the building of a new computer block in Linda Community School. As we were able to donate during Big Give Week, the charity was able to get match funding. The children’s recent writing unit has focused on understanding all of this great work. 

In total at Sleights, from our fundraising events, we raised £712. Once donated and match funded, we also were able to add gift aid.

But, that’s not all!

As a result of the brilliant continued kindness and generosity of our families, during our Christmas Nativity performances, we also gathered further donations on the Church collection plates. This raised a further £296.

In total, this means that our school’s collective efforts from the last two weeks raised a MASSIVE £1898!

Wow! Wow! Wow!

Sustainable Development Goals

Scott Grason-Taylor

What amazing learning and future proofing.  Discoverers have been investigating the Sustainable Development Goals, linking this with their geography fieldwork by investigating plastic pollution.

They have been trying to understand why each of the goals is needed and what impact this will have on the future of our planet.  An important area of discussion was climate change and how small steps made by the children at the school could have a big impact, making a difference for the future.  All the children have made a plastic pledge and they are looking into further areas where they can make changes.  Children have been so inspired by this topic that they have taken their learning beyond the classroom, picking up litter from their local communities.

#bethedifferenceyouwanttoseeintheworld

 

What An Amazing Week

Scott Grason-Taylor

Hello Visitors,

This week has been AMAZING! We have enjoyed writing our adverts, to try and tempt people to visit the Alps. Did you know the Alps attract over 30,000,000 people each year and they were formed over 65,000,000 years ago? They are the youngest mountain range in the world!

Not only have we been enjoying English, we have also learned lots more about Tudors in history. This week, we studied Elizabeth I, and why her time in reign is known as the Golden Era. Here we are presenting our findings to the rest of the class:

 

Sleights Remembers Them

Scott Grason-Taylor

This week, the whole school have reflected on the service personnel who lost their lives and are remembered on our village’s War Memorial Monument. These local heroes have been discussed and their lives researched during the week. The children have each created a symbol of remembrance, including artwork and writing about the local lost soldiers. Today, we came together as a full school and heard the names of these soldiers read out by our children, before beginning our two minutes silence. The hall was still.

The photographs show the work created by the children celebrated around the village. Please do visit the school, community centre, Spar shop, St John’s and the War Memorial to see the work in person. It really is beautiful.

A huge thank you to families who have shared personal memories too. These included finding out about a family connection to one of the individuals on the War Memorial, as well as some very special items from fallen family members.

Learning about the past

Scott Grason-Taylor

To support our children’s learning about Rememberence, we were really fortunate to be joined in school by Kevin Hann, Royal Air Force Wing Commander (Retired). Mr Hann worked with children in Adventurers, Discoverers and Leaders to explore some of his own stories and reflections on his time serving. Mr Hann shared with the children some of his first-hand experiences and brought some of his equipment and uniform into school. The children were really engaged to also see photographs and medals from Mr Hann’s service. The children had so many questions and made some excellent contributions. A huge thank you to Mr Hann for giving his time up. His impact across school was significant.

Harvest Festival 2023

Scott Grason-Taylor

The land has yielded its harvest: God, our God, has blessed us, Psalm 67:6

It was so brilliant to be able to welcome so many families to our service on Wednesday. St John’s was full! A huge thank you for supporting us with your very kind donations too. All donated items will now be shared with the Whitby Food Bank to share around our community.

Global Poverty and Our Actions

Scott Grason-Taylor

Hello Visitors,

This week, we came together as a whole school to think about those in need and discuss the global issue of poverty.

Here are some staggering facts about poverty, and the responses that the children gave:

World poverty affects 330,000,000 people.

Beth told us that everyone matters.

International and global response is important.

Ava told us that it affects people all over the world.

Coco told us that when it’s the whole world that helps, it benefits more people.

Nobody should be starving.

Dignity for all – clean clothes, toilets.

As we work together, as a whole school, we hope that we can help change this disaster!

To help make a change, we have been raising donations to be delivered to the local food bank. 

If you can help, please do.

Sleights Strikes Again

Scott Grason-Taylor

Welcome to another week in Discoverers’ class 😀

This week it started in style, when we held a KS2 cross country within our grounds. We ran around the front and back fields, and even into the forest. 

After battling across the different terrain, we cheered on the other classes, watching everybody finish with a huge smile of pride on their faces.