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 3rd March 2023

What a busy start to the new half-term Leaders have had! In English, the children have been working incredibly hard on our new unit - balanced arguments. To start the unit, Leaders explored the features of a balanced argument before applying these features to their...

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Friday 10th February 2023

The Leaders have finished a brilliant half term by writing their independent flashback stories in English. It was a pleasure to read them all. Well done, Leaders! In science, the children learned about voltage and explored the impact of it on the brightness of a bulb....

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Friday 3rd February

This week, Leaders have been getting practical in science, exploring the different components that can be used in a circuit and which are essential for one to work. The children were able to use their knowledge about circuits to predict whether a circuit would work...

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Friday 27th January

It has been another brilliant week in Leaders class. In English, the children have started their new unit on narrative writing. Over the next few weeks, the children will work towards writing a flashback narrative on our current class text, Holes. To start this unit,...

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Friday 20th January 2023

It has been another brilliant week in Leaders class, with lots being achieved by the children across the curriculum. This week, the children worked hard to plan and write a newspaper report about Hawkes, our new PE provider. They will use the skills they learned...

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Friday 13th January 2023

The children in Leaders have continued to work hard across the curriculum this week. In maths, the children have tackled their challenging work on fractions and are able to add and subtract fractions with different denominators and add and subtract mixed numbers. In...

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Happy New Year!

It has been great to welcome the children back into school this week and lots of learning has happened.  This week, the children have started our new class text 'Holes' and the first two chapters already have us all hooked. We are looking forward to reading more...

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