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• Year 4 win Spring term Attendance Party

  Tue 27 Mar 2018 Headteacher

  Congratulations to Miss Andrews' Year 4 class who won the Spring term attendance party for the second term running!  Their attendance was 96.4%.

  Well done to all the children and their families.

   

  see photographs of their attendance party

  

• Y6 Perform at Stephen Joseph Theatre

  Fri 16 Mar 2018 Headteacher

  This afternoon, our Year 6 class performed their own play at Scarborough's internationally famous Stephen Joseph Theatre.  Wheatcroft was one of a group of Scarborough schools who participated in the annual Outreach Drama Festival which gives pupils a unique opportunity to write, rehearse and perform their own, original play based on a theme. This year's theme was Metamorphosis.  Every Year 6 pupil was involved and it was a great collaborative team effort.  Mrs Thompson directed the play and crafted the scenes together assisted by Mrs Sweeney-Chisholm who choreographed the dancing and movements.  Congratulations to every pupil for their memorable performance today and as always a big thank you to all the families who came to support as well as our Year 5 class.

  see photographs here and on the class 6 page.

  

• Y4 East Barnby Visit 2018

  Wed 14 Mar 2018 Headteacher

  Monday 12th March

  9.20am: The outdoor adventure visit begins for our Year 4 class and staff!

  The coach has left Wheatcroft and is heading north to Whitby and then East Barnby.

  10.30am: Safely arrived at East Barnby. Children are unpacking and undertaking their first challenge - making their beds!

  12.15pm: Bedrooms mostly sorted!  Waterproofs collected and children ready for beck scrambling or climbing after lunch.

  5pm: All groups back from their various activities - some wet and some dry! Climbing group were amazing and showed some great teamwork. Unfortunately, because of the heavy rain, we couldn't do the beck scrambling today.  Instead, two groups had a great adventure on the moors.  This involved exploring the different terrains with lots of water, mud and snow involved!

  see photographs

  5.30pm Tea enjoyed -orange juice followed by spaghetti bolognese followed by chocolate sponge and custard!

  8.20pm: Having supper after a very wet sledging session!

  9pm Hot chocolate and biscuit enjoyed and now heading back to the dormitories for a well earned sleep.

  More updates in the morning - Good Night!

  Tuesday 13th March

  8.30am: A good night's sleep!

  Children and staff are eating their breakfast!  Happy birthday has been sung to one of the boys and he loves his Wolves toy!

  Will update after our canoeing adventure.

  6.15pm: We have had a wonderful day on the water -not the River Esk due to the level of flood water but went to Scaling Lake.  Canoeing was enjoyed by everyone and made even more enjoyable by warmer, drier weather. We pulled over to the shore and had a lovely picnic lunch in the heather.

  See photographs

  We have just finished our three course dinner: soup followed by pizza and chips followed by apple crumble and custard!

  8.30pm Campfire finished and everyone has toasted their own marshmallow. Supper finished and birthday cake shared with the whole class - thank you to Sam's parents.

  Packing has been mostly completed and we are ready for our final day of shelter building.

  Children looking forward to seeing their families tomorrow.  

  Get the washing machines ready!

  Wednesday 14th March

  8.15am: A good night's sleep and we're about to have our final breakfast. Bags are packed and ready for home. Shelter building is our final outdoor adventure challenge.  Lots of our school character traits have been seen this week, particularly resilience.  I'll update school when we leave East Barnby and Mrs Younger will update you if we're going to be later than 2.30pm.

  Please don't park around the turning circle or outside school as this will block the bus.Thanks.

  12.30pm Back from an excellent morning of shelter building in Mulgrave Woods.  Having lunch and then setting off by 1.30pm.

  2.40pm: Arrived back at Wheatcroft.

  see final photographs from today (Shelter Building) and last night's campfire.

  

• World Book Day

  Thu 01 Mar 2018 Headteacher

  The snow and ice did not stop Wheatcroft pupils enjoying World Book Day today.

  Miss Flinton launched the day with a whole school assembly all about Share a Story which was then followed by a mass book swap!  Pupils could bring in a book they'd read and swap it for a different book.

  In the afternoon, all the classes swapped around so that older pupils could read books to younger ones and vice versa. 

  In Bluebells, we had a class of pirates who were doing  work on the book Pirates Love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort!  As you can see from the photographs, the pirates had to walk the plank! A very big thank you to Bluebells families for finding all the amazing pirate costumes. 

  Once the snow is cleared, I hope the children can go in to Scarborough and visit some book shops and spend their £1 book voucher token.