Welcome to Leaders class!
Leaders is an exciting time for the children at Sleights as they are the oldest children in school. Leaders class includes children from Year 6. They are taught by Mrs Porter and supported by Mr Everall in their own building on the school playground.
In Leaders, children are taught maths and English daily and they also gather together with the rest of the school in collective worship.
Children in Leaders class love to read. The children are very lucky to have an amazing school and class library, filled with a diverse range of books that they can enjoy reading for pleasure. Children also enjoy listening to the class story at the end of each school day. In addition to reading for pleasure, Leaders also enjoy sharing a range of texts during whole class reading sessions, where they have the opportunity to read fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts as well as a whole class reading book. Reading at home is also incredibly important. Please record the reading that your child does at home in their reading record and ensure that this, alongside their individual reading book, is in school every day.
Children in Leaders class are very lucky to be taught by specialist teachers throughout the week. On a Tuesday, children will have swimming lessons at the Leisure Centre in Whitby. Children will continue to bring home their instruments to practice throughout the week and these will need to be returned on a Thursday morning ready for music with Ralph. Computing with Mrs Gurney will also take place on a Wednesday afernoon,
Each week, homework will be set on Sumdog on a Thursday. Children will also receive spellings every two weeks; these will be sent home on a Thursday. Spellings tests will happen on the second Wednesday.
Our class blog will be updated each week so keep an eye on this for exciting updates throughout the term.
Friday 15th October 2021
Wow – what a busy week!
We started the week with a shared session with Louise, learning all about the Tudors through drama activities. A session of fun, laughter and ‘hands on’ learning.
Tuesday brought another swimming session – it is fantastic to see the water confidence really beginning to grow.
On Wednesday, it was the girls turn to play football at Eskdale and they all had a fantastic time, playing as a team and developing their football knowledge over the course of the matches.
On Thursday, we visited Scarborough Spa to take part in a STEM fair which showed the children many opportunities in these fields with many more ‘hands on’ activities to take part in; code cracking, brick laying, fulcrum balancing and medicine to list a few.
With such a varied week – there has been so much learning taking place.
Families – please check Tapestry to see photos from these events.
Friday 1st October 2021
This week we have spent some time in the forest which allowed us to check on the status of our structures and answer the million dollar question as to whether the kindling was still dry. We were not too hopeful as it has been very windy and rainy. We found a mixture of results but we were able to identify which structures had worked well and why, which should help us in the future. The next questions were: could we light a fire; did we have enough kindling.
We managed to get the fire lit but quickly realised that there would not be enough kindling to boil our Kelly Kettle. We decided to fill our most successful structures with more kindling so that we will be able to look forward to a nice warm drink (as it gets colder) the next time we are in the forest.
In collective worship this week, we have been continuing our journey through the bible although we are still in the book of Genesis. We found out about the test that God gave Abraham in terms of sacrifice and what this means.
Friday 17th September 2021
Wow, what a busy start to the school year Leaders have had. We have had lots of fun investigating the new classroom and trying out the different seating options.
Our topic this term is ‘This is our World’ and we have been polishing up our map skills by using 6-figure grid references and showing our knowledge of famous structures around the world – very impressive! In history, we are beginning to learn about the Tudors and have re-enacted our own Battle of Bosworth with our class splitting into the same ratios as they would have been then – who knew they would need their maths!
In collective worship this week, we have been investigating this term’s value of thankfulness and thinking about people in our school and the wider community who we are thankful for. A time to reflect on all the people who help us on a daily basis.
Leaders’ Home Learning – Tuesday 12th January 2021
Good Morning Leaders
Thank you for your patience yesterday with the technical issues that Tapestry was encountering. I am sure you have all being doing lots of fantastic learning. Please don’t worry if you were unable to complete yesterday’s tasks although, it would be great if you could look at the ‘What We’ll Build’ story post as we will be using that to base our English activities on for the coming weeks.
Also, a big thank you to everyone who uploaded a poetry video. I really enjoyed seeing you all and your concentration and characters really shone through.
#English
Today, we are going to think about once of the first pages of the story. We are going to be using the page near the front of the book which is covered in tools. We use tools to help us complete lots of different jobs. For a bit of fun, I have attached several photos of tools, and I would like you to guess what the tools are used for – some of them look rather strange!
We are going to build up to writing an explanation of how a tool or object works but with a slight twist. Look at the pages attached of the book ‘Until I Met Dudley’ and investigate the explanations. You will see there are two very different explanations of the same object. Read these carefully and see if you can list the similarities and differences between the two explanations. Your list of similarities should then give you a list of features you would see in an explanation text. Keep this list safe as we will need it during the week.
#Maths
We are continuing with our work on division today.
Year 5, page 16, Dividing. If you would like to check in with the video from yesterday to remind yourselves, please do before you start.
Year 6, page 15, Dividing. Your task today includes some long division. You can use this video to help you recap the long division method or, if you are confident, you might want to have a go at the first one and then watch the first bit of the clip to check your method. https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/use-the-formal-written-method-of-long-division-to-solve-appropriate-calculations-c8wk0c?step=2&activity=video
#Art/Outdoors
Finally, your task is to create a cairn. Cairns are man-made towers of natural stones, usually built as a landmark or a memorial. All you need to do is gather a range of flat rocks and pebbles in different sizes, and then stack them in order, with the largest at the bottom and the smallest at the top.
See if you can get your cairn to balance, and count how many stones high your structure can hold.
For an extra challenge, change the foundation of your tower to a smaller stone, and see if you can rebuild it.
If you don’t have any rocks or pebbles, you could get create and use small items around the home.
Have a great day.
Monday 13th July 2020
Good Morning Leaders
Can you believe it? – It’s the last week of term!!
I hope you have all had a lovely weekend and you are ready to join us for our final activities of the school year.
Thursday 9th July 2020
Good Morning Leaders
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Wednesday 8th July 2020
Good Morning Leaders
I was sure the sun was going to put his hat on yesterday but I think he continued to hide throughout the day!!
I hope you have made some great plans to keep your ice cube frozen – take some time to collect the things that you have used in your design ready to make it at a later date.
Why is the Sky Blue? – English
You have probably heard the saying ‘that’s just the tip of the iceberg’ and possibly wondered what it means.
After looking at the page, what do you think this saying could mean?
We would think of people as icebergs with the tip representing all the visible things we can see straight away about someone with so many other things hidden underneath.
Today, think about someone you know well and think about them like an iceberg. What are the easily visible things which would represent the tip and what would be less visible and possibly hidden away that not everyone will see or know.
If you would like to, you could represent this with an annotated iceberg.
Area of Triangles – Maths
So far this week we have been looking at the area of 2d rectilinear shapes. Today, we are going to investigate finding the area of triangles.
Have a go at the questions below.
Sports – Get Moving
As we will be holding a virtual sports day next week I thought we would have a go at a fitness activity. A Samba carnival to invigorate us. ?
Tuesday 7th July 2020
Good Morning Leaders
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Monday 6th July 2020
Good Morning Leaders
Why is the Sky Blue? – English
Area and Perimeter – Maths
It’s Written in the Stars
Friday 3rd July 2020
Poetry
Choose one of the subjects that you have written questions about and have a go at writing a poem on the same theme.
You can choose any format of poetry you would like.
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