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 5 and 6. They are taught by Miss Curphey and supported by Mrs Gurney.

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. Computing with Mrs Gurney will also take place on a Wednesday afternoon,

Each week, homework will be set on Sumdog. Children will also take home weekly spellings to practise.

Our class blog will be updated each week so keep an eye on this for exciting updates throughout the term.

Friday 7th July

It has been another wonderful week in Leaders class. In history this week, the children considered how we know about the Mayan time period to finish off their learning in this area. They considered evidence such as buildings, writing, books and number systems. ...

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Friday 30th June 2023

This week, the Leaders have continued to explore the Mayan time period. Using a range of sources, they have found out about city life, with a focus on the layout of them. They found that the higher in the societal hierarchy you were, the closer to the center that you...

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Friday 19th May 2023

So much learning has been happening in Leaders this week. Here is our weekly round up! In English, the children have been planning and writing narratives based on the animation, 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'. The vocabulary and sentence types used are really making for some...

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Friday 12th May 2023

It has been a busy week in Leaders Class. This week, Year 6 children sat the SATs. The children approached the week with positivity and demonstrated excellent effort throughout. A big well done to all of the Year 6 pupils from Leaders. The Year 5 Leaders have been...

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Welcome to the Summer Term!

Wow! I can't quite believe that it is the summer term already. There is so much to look forward to this term so keep an eye on our class blog for exciting updates. This week, the children have been focusing on characterisation in their English lessons, developing...

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Friday 10th March

It has been another brilliant week in Leaders class. On Monday, the children enjoyed a history drama day, focussed on how punishment has changed over time. The children demonstrated their learning from the day by performing for the whole school to finish the day. On...

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