Autumn Term 2019 Newsletters
Autumn term 2019 events 1. 6th September 2019 2. 13th September 2019 3. 20th September 2019 4. 27th September 2019 5. 4th October 2019 6. 11th October 2019 7. 18th October 2019 8. 25th October 2019 9. 8th November 2019 10. 15th November 2019 11. 22nd November 2019 12….
Welcome to Learning in Our New Classroom
This week we left behind the four walls of our old classroom and starting learning in our new classroom with all of our familiar resources.This transition was wonderful and well handled by everyone and we lost no learning time. We are continuing our work on…
Welcome back!
Hello families, I hope that you had an enjoyable Easter break. Leaders have enjoyed their first week of the Summer Term and it has been lovely for me to get to know them more this week. It is certainly going to be a busy final term at primary school for the children,…
Mapping the Village
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”946″ display=”basic_slideshow” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The Pioneers have been making maps of the village in the story of The Elves and the Shoemaker. They were introduced to maps with a grid…
Discuss, Collaborate,Make
We begin this week by reading a traditional tale, The Elves and the Shoemaker.An elf arrived in the classroom and he left us a letter to read. He was there to help the little old man who made shoes in the shop. The Pioneers handled artefacts from the past, examining…
Exploring Shape
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”943″ display=”basic_slideshow” maximum_entity_count=”500″] As all the excitement of Christmas goes on around us, the Pioneers enjoyed the calm of exploring a variety of tools and materials with…
Spring 2026 Newsletters
Spring Term Dates (2026) Weekly Newsletters 1. Week ending 9th January 2026 2. Week ending 16th January 2026
Investigating Materials
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”942″ display=”basic_slideshow” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The Pioneers continue to investigate materials and have carried out some experiments to find out about their properties. This…
Will It Sink?
The Pioneers have been scientists, planning an experiment, making predictions and recording results. After reading a book called,”Who Sank the Boat?”, we needed to find which materials would float or sink when put on water. We made our own version of the story and…
A Lot of Work for Little Hands
The Pioneers like to make their mark. They can do this in many ways. The classroom is well stocked with a variety of pens, pencils and crayons and the Pioneers know what they like. The most popular addition this week was a set of silky crayons, a bit like lipstick and…
Forest Soup
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”939″ display=”basic_slideshow” maximum_entity_count=”500″] We have had a fabulous week of learning in the classroom and outside. The weather is turning colder, wetter and windier but this did…
Remembrance 2025
https://development.sleights.n-yorks.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/9FD5F2E217B54E838448D37EF89CE6E6.mp4 Our whole school came together to remember our heroes and mark the two minute silence. The children and staff paid their respects with great maturity and…
Pumpkins in Pioneers
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”938″ display=”basic_slideshow” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The Pioneers had some heavy lifting to do to move the pumpkins to the pumpkin patch. This was great fun and everyone managed not to…