SUMMER 2018
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SEATON SLUICE MIDDLE SCHOOL OUR LATEST NEWS HEAD OF SCHOOL MRS LINDLEY
THE WILDERNESS SCHOOL Y7 children are more than halfway through a six week programme, attending one day each week at the Wilderness School. The venue used this year is Seaton Delaval Hall - not all classrooms have four walls!
The Summer Term is probably my favourite one – days are longer, we all spend more time outside and it is a great time to look back at everything that has been achieved this year. Pupils have been very busy in all year groups, with Synagogue visits, the Dukeshouse Wood residential, School Elections and Charities Day. Looking at the pupils now, we are immensely proud of what they have achieved and how they are developing as young adults. I wish everyone a great Summer and good luck to the Y8s who are leaving us – I’m sure you will continue to thrive at the High School.
Mrs Lindley DOVE MARINE VISIT In April, Y6 pupils were lucky enough to have some very special and unusual visitors come and meet them in the Science lab at school. All Y6 classes were treated to a very different Science lesson hosted by Olivia and Phoebe from Dove Marine Laboratory, part of the University of Newcastle based in Cullercoats.
Wilderness Schooling is managed and run by the education charity whose aim is to help schools to meet the well-being and educational needs of children. They deliver the core curriculum in Maths, Science and English using the outdoors as the classroom and their aim is to raise standards in core subjects. The children look forward to every Wednesday, and last week I joined them along with a writer from the Guardian newspaper who was writing an article about forest and wilderness schooling. He was so impressed that he is now looking for a local school for his own children. Our children started the day knowing that they were going to do poetry. I heard lots of moans about how they don’t like poetry, yet by the end of the day they were performing the poems they had created as a group. Their opinion had completed changed. Teachers have already commented on the children’s improvement in their writing skills, and we’re not finished yet! Mrs Long
VISITORS FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC On April 24th, Seaton Sluice Middle School had a visit from teachers and children from the Czech Republic. They had travelled by bus and ferry to the UK and had visited York before travelling by train to the northeast. They arrived at break-time and we were able to get to know some of them. They were really nice and knew a lot of English.
Olivia and Phoebe brought with them some very interesting creatures which inhabit our local coastline and the pupils learned about each animal and had the opportunity to hold the creatures if they wished. Everyone found the sessions fascinating and most enjoyable.
I took some of them to the ICT lesson my class was in, and we went onto Google ‘Translate’ so we could talk to each other. We also asked them some questions about life in the Czech Republic and they presented us with some presents – sweets and toys that were made in the town they come from. We all had lunch outside and then they said their goodbyes. It was fun to meet them.
Mrs Cook
By Peter