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• Harvest Festival

  Fri 22 Oct 2021 Headteacher

  Harvest Collection

  Thank you so much for your generous donations of food and other produce this week (see photo).  Morrisons kindly picked up the donations and have distributed them to the Rainbow Centre in Scarborough, Salvation Army and Westway Open arms at Eastfield where they will make a real difference for some of our local community.  Mr Levett has once again put together our Harvest performance video and we will post it on ClassDojo today for viewing by Wheatcroft families.  Every class has made a contribution including poems, raps and singing.

  Please see our latest 22nd October Newsletter for further updates on this half term.

  I hope all our Wheatcroft families have a lovely half term holiday and we look forward to welcoming back pupils on Tuesday 2nd November for an 8.45am start. 

   

  

• Courage

  Fri 01 Oct 2021 Headteacher

  We have said goodbye to September and completed our first four weeks of the Autumn term.

  This week, we have been thinking about courage, one of our Wheatcroft character traits. We encourage all our pupils to try new things and overcome challenges whether in a lesson or at playtimes or joining a club.
  Our Year 6 pupils have achieved some of the hardest challenges they will face in primary school during their residential visit to East Barnby this week. I have loved seeing how courageous and resilient these children have been over the three days away from school and the courage they demonstrated doing beck scrambling, sledging, canoeing, shelter building and learning how vital teamwork is in life. A big well done to the Year 6 pupils and staff!
  We have also learnt how important sleep and rest is so I wish all our families a peaceful weekend!

  Miss Hartley

  

• Year 6 East Barnby residential visit

  Fri 01 Oct 2021 Headteacher

  Friday 1st October

  The children have enjoyed a good night's sleep and packing is finished (apart from the odd sock that no one can recognise!). 

  Shelter building in the woods has gone well this morning and the children are enjoying their final lunch at East Barnby before setting off home to Scarborough. ETA at school will hopefully be around 2.30pm but Mr Levett will send a ClassDojo message when the bus is setting off.

  I will post some photographs from today on the website later. 

   

  Thursday 30th September

  The children and staff have had a good night's sleep and everyone has enjoyed a tasty breakfast including: a range of cereals, yogurt, fruit, bacon, egg, mushrooms, baked beans, hash browns and toast!

  I will post some photographs when we get back from the canoeing.

  The River Esk is waiting for us ...

   

  Thursday evening 7.30pm

  We have had another fantastic day with every child achieving really well.  Year 6 parents and families should feel very proud of how well every child has tackled every challenge over the last two days.

  We canoed from near Ruswarp all the way down to Whitby harbour today and were really lucky with dry weather all day.  As well as seeing the North Yorkshire Moors steam trains, we saw some wildlife including;

  a kingfisher, a heron and lots of ducks!  Everyone is enjoying the campfire now and toasting some marshmallows & then we will have supper.

   

  Wednesday 29th September

  Year 6 have had to wait a very long time for this visit (March 2020) when the children were in Year 4!

  Today has been a fantastic day with every pupil displaying great courage and teamwork as the three groups went beck scrambling.  Pupils have really pushed themselves to cross the very cold beck water as well as scrambling through boulders and very tight spaces. Most of the children and their teacher braved the famous Leap into the pool!

  See photographs

  We have enjoyed tea and are about to get ready for our evening activity- sledging.