Sustainable Development Goals
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
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
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
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.
Celebrating Diwali
It was lovely to welcome almost sixty family members into school today to celebrate the festival of Diwali. The classrooms were a hive of activity, as children and families learned together about the customs, traditions and beliefs of Diwali. The gallery below gives a flavour of some of the activities that families and children enjoyed together.
Harvest Festival 2023
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
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.
Super Science
Welcome 🙂
This week, we have explored lots of new learning in science, including how shadows are created. We used torches to find out why our shadows got bigger, the closer the object was to the torch.
We used the word opaque to help us explain this. Opaque means that light is unable to pass through an object.
Sleights Strikes Again
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.
Our First Visit From Families
Hello Visitors,
Today, we were visited by our wonderful families, and we spent time thinking about careers that make a difference. We spoke about the skills we would need, and even filled out a CV!
We are all hoping to change the world, by making small differences in whatever we decide to do. Check us out:
