🌟 Stiperstones Superstar 🌟

This week our star of the week was Cohan for his excellent effort, which he applies to all areas of his learning.

13.11.23- ODD SOCKS DAY!

On Monday, we had great fun wearing odd socks to school, to raise awareness for anti-bullying week. During our whole school collective worship, we listened to the story ‘Simon Sock’, which highlighted to us the importance of respecting each other and celebrating our differences and talents.

History
We started off the week by introducing our new history topic ‘Early Islamic civilisations’- we spoke of the importance of chronology when looking at time lines of events. The children then completed a time line of events for the Early Islamic civilisations. We discovered that this period of history started in 570AD and ended in 1258 AD.

Science

We have had an electrifying week in our science lessons! We’ve been busy building circuits, drawing circuits using correct physic symbols and exploring how changing components in our circuits has a knock on effect to other components. For example, we discovered that if your circuit has two cells (batteries) the bulb will be brighter because it has twice the amount of voltage passing through it. The children completed some excellent science and made great circuits.

CHILDREN IN NEED

We rounded off a great week, coming into school in our own ‘Pudsey’ inspired clothes, to raise money for the great charity, children in need.

Welcome back to the second half of the autumn term. We’ve had a great first week back.

Our first Stiperstones Superstar ⭐️

Stefani is a superstar for her amazing independent story writing.

Magic Maths 

Year 5 and 6 have been busy working on some pretty tricky maths this week, exploring square and cube numbers.

Story time in the Library 

We are continuing to read our class text- Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian. The children are really enjoying it and this week made some excellent connections between the story and Remembrance Day.

Reading Rivers 

Over the half term, the children were given a challenge of completing a reading river. I asked the children if they could make a river, illustrating all the different things they read over the week. Well done to the children below, who created some fantastic reading rivers.

🌟 Our Stiperstones superstars 🌟

Odin was a superstar for the huge effort he has put in to improve his handwriting.

James was a superstar for his amazing writing in our recent diary writing based around our English text ’Star of Fear, Star of Hope.’

Free read sessions in the library on Wednesday afternoons. Stiperstones enjoy visiting the library on a Wednesday afternoon, when they’re able to explore the large range of fiction and non-fiction books.

Tag rugby PE lessons 

Science

Investigating how shadows are made.

Wet Play Time DT activities with Mr Kenyon 

Stiperstones have had a busy first few weeks back.

Firstly, we’ve had three Stiperstones Superstars 🌟

Majd was our first superstar, for making me proud with the hard work and practise he had applied to proving his handwriting over the summer holidays. 

Kobie was our second star, for impressing me with her  incredibly impressive reading age. On her recent Star reading test, her reading age was 3 years higher than her actual age!

Jess has been our most recent superstar, for making a great star to Y6 and being an excellent role model. 

Science

Our unit of study this term is ‘light’. Year 5 and 6 have been exploring what a light source is, different forms of light sources and proving that light travels in straight lines.

PSHE

In PSHE the children have been learning about healthy lifestyles. On Thursday, the children discussed the effects and risks of unhealthy diet choices.

PE

Some of the year 6’s in Stiperstones have started their swimming lessons this week, they have a 10 week block of lessons, working on achieving their 25m badges.
On a Tuesday afternoon, they have been learning the skills and rules of tag rugby with Neil. Then on a Thursday, they have been developing their coordination, speed, agility, balance and flexibility skills with a ‘multi skills’ unit of study.

Maths 

Our place value unit of study, has involved using concrete resources to develop our place value knowledge and ability to write, order and compare numbers up to 100,000.

Free Read Time 

On a Wednesday afternoon, Stiperstones enjoy their ‘free read’ time in the school library. During this time, children get to explore the vast range of fiction and non-fiction books on offer.

📖🌟Superstar reading in Stiperstones 📖🌟

Congratulations to George for becoming a millionaire reader!

Congratulations to Anwen for reading over 500,000 words.

🏅 Our values Champion for Service 🏅

Stefani is our values champion for her service to her peer mentor job. She is an excellent role model and has shown outstanding responsibility to her peer mentor role, helping many children with any worries they may have.

⭐️ Stiperstones Superstars ⭐️

Harvey and Michael have been superstars for their improved attitude towards their learning. Well done boys.

Lola is a superstar for increasing her reading age by 2 years and 4 months on her recent Star reader test. Amazing progress! Well done.

Stiperstones have had a busy few weeks, firstly we have had many super stars ⭐️

Our Stiperstones Superstars 🌟

Georgi was a star for his excellent sewing skills.

Connie was a star for the excellent perseverance she has shown to improving her handwriting and gaining her pen license.

Ameera was a star for her overall hard work in class.

DT
We started the term finishing our textile design and technology projects. The children used their design knowledge to research, design and make cushions. Myself and Mrs Rowley were very impressed with the children’s sewing skills and some excellent cushions were produced.

Science 

Year 5 started the term by completing their forces unit with an ‘egg-cellent’ air resistance investigation. They were challenged to create parachutes for their eggs, the eggs were then dropped from the same height to investigate which parachute was the most successful at creating the greatest air resistance. There was only one egg-cident.

PE

In PE, we have been exploring different ways to travel, roll, balance within our gymnastics unit. The children have then used these elements to choreograph sequences.

🌟  Stiperstones superstar 🌟

Hasan is our superstar this week for his amazing maths!

We’ve had a busy week in Stiperstones.

On Monday, Y5 continued with their Forces unit in science. Their task was to build different shaped boats, to see which travelled through water the best as part of our water resistant learning. We were focusing on key vocabulary such as: stream lined, hydrodynamic and surface area. Great science took place and we discovered that the narrower and pointier the boat, the quicker it travelled through the water as it was the most stream lined.
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In PE this week, we have continued to develop our strength, flexibility, balance, stamina and agility skills in our fitness and mindfulness stretching units of study.

On Friday afternoon we starting making patterns and prototypes of our cushion covers in our DT lesson.

We firstly had to make patterns on square paper, to pin onto our chosen fabric. This process required the children to demonstrate their precise cutting skills and perseverance with pinning their pattern onto their fabric.

Once they had their pieces of fabric cut, they practised their running stitch skills again from last week, to sew their two pieces of fabric together. It was a great afternoon and I was very impressed with the sewing skills demonstrated by everyone.

On Thursday 2nd March, Stiperstones joined the school with celebrating our love for reading and dressed up as some of our favourite story book characters. There were many amazing outfits. Thank you adults at home for helping the children participate in this great day.