Half a million reader! 📚

A huge well done to George Wilson, for being our class top reader with reading over 500,000 words. It’s a great achievement, which we are all very proud of.

Star of the Week 🌟

Well done Anwen Chesters, for being our superstar this week. Anwen is our star for her amazing results in our recent assessments. Your hard work and studious efforts certainly pay off.

Our learning 

Stiperstones have had a busy few weeks, in PE the have been focusing on their fitness, balance, flexibility and strength.

Year 5 have enjoyed learning our forces in our science unit. They have explored many scientific enquiry skills, through investigations around friction, gravity and water resistance.

Our history unit this term is exploring the cause and impact of WW2. On Wednesday, the children had great fun learning about evacuees and participated in a ‘hot seat’ activity where by they tried to ‘put themselves’ in the shoes of an evacuee.

On Friday afternoon, we begun our DT unit of textiles. Our aim is to make a cushion cover, firstly we needed to practise our threading of a needle and simple running stitch skills. Everyone showed great perseverance with threading their needles and showed very good stitching skills.

Welcome back! What a busy few weeks we’ve had.

Since returning from the Christmas break, we’ve been very busy learning new topics, carrying out new investigations in science and having lots of fun!

So far this term we’ve had three Stiperstones Superstars 🌟

Kam, Deni and Diana have been superstars for their excellent effort with all areas of their learning,  especially during their swimming lessons on a Tuesday morning.

Science

In science, year 5 are coming to the end of their materials and their properties unit of work. They have been busy identifying transparent, translucent and opaque materials.

Art

Stipertsones have thoroughly enjoyed their new art unit this term, ‘Typography’. They have had great fun exploring different techniques of typography and the work of Louise Fili.

Visitors

We’ve also had quite a few exciting visitors into school this month. From the Dogs Trust charity, to St John’s ambulance- giving an assembly all about first aid, and we even had a visit from the air ambulance.
  

Values Champion

Our Values Champion for Trust, is Jess. Over the past term Jess has been trusted with being a ‘class buddy’ to some of our younger children in the school, being an excellent role model. Demonstrating and illustrating to them how to follow follow the school and classroom expectations and helping them with their learning. Jess has been an excellent ‘class buddy’ and a true ambassador for the school.

PSHE

Year 5 had two special visitors to their lesson on Friday 9th December. We were lucky to have two nurses from Gobowen Orthopaedic Hospital, visit to talk to us about what it means to be a nurse. Part of our learning this term has been ‘first aid’. There the nurses gave us some demonstrations on how to treat cuts and grazes and apply bandages. The children even had the opportunity to listen to each other’s lungs and hearts using a stethoscope. We had a great morning and learnt a lot from Nurses Jamie Hutton and Sarah Scoltock.

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas 🎄 

Christmas lunch and jumper day. We would like to say a big thank you to all of the kitchen staff who made us a very yummy lunch.

Christmas Church Service 

On Thursday 15th December, the whole school put together a fantastic service for all parents, carers and adults. Stiperstones were excellent, acting the nativity story alongside the readers from the Y6 children.
Jess, Allison and Florence, shone during the class hymen, singing solo parts of ‘While Shepherds Watched’ angelically.  It was a beautiful service, telling the Christmas story perfectly and setting the perfect scene for the nearing Christmas holidays.

Finally, we had a very fun last couple of days of term, with a Christmas party and even a visit from Santa!

I would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. I look forward to all of the exciting learning opportunities and experiences 2023 has in stall.

Christmas celebrations have begun this week, with the watching of the pantomime Aladdin on Tuesday morning. It was an excellent show and we all had great fun and laughter watching it.

Our Stiperstones Superstar this week is Stefani

Stefani is our Star this week for the excellent home learning she always completes.

Science

In science this week, we started our Properties and Changes of Materials unit of study.  We started our learning by looking at the difference between melting and dissolving. We then carried out inquires such as observation and fair testing, to decided which solids dissolved in 50ml of cold water. The children had great fun, and completing some great science!

PE

We are now in our third week of netball lessons.  Neil is very impressed with the children, he said they are making great progress with learning the tricky footwork rules in netball. They played some excellent games on Tuesday afternoon, everyone was smiling, even though it was a particularly chilly afternoon! 🥶

DT

In our structures unit of study, we have been busy researching, designing and constructing our Greek Temples, linking our learning to our history topic. They haven’t yet finished their structures, but some excellent temples are under construction.

We have about her busy and exciting week to look forward to, with Christmas jumper day and Christmas lunch on Wednesday 7th December 🎄

Welcome back to the second half of the Autumn Term. We have had a very busy and productive few weeks, and are now preparing ourselves for the joyous and fun Christmas activities ahead.

Our half term started with the awarding of our values champion, for the value ‘thankfulness’.

Harrison was our Values Champion for Thankfulness. He’s always shows great appreciation for all the staff and peers around him at Holy Trinity.

Our Stiperstones Superstars so far this term: 

Isaac has been a superstar for the excellent maturity he’s shown towards his Y6 learning.

Raahith has been a superstar for all of the extra home learning and projects he completes outside of school.

Florence has been a superstar for the enthusiasm and excellent participation she shows towards her learning.

Bike ability 

The first week back, saw a lot of the children participating in their bike ability course. The instructors were very impressed with the children and lots of fun was had!

DT

In DT we have started our structures unit. The children had great fun exploring different structures (semi-permanent and permanent) structures. They were then given the challenge to build a structure which would support the weight of a book. Excellent team work and engineering ideas were shared and demonstrated.

Science

Year 5,  brought their Earth and Space unit of work to a close with a moon crater experiment.  The children were given different size and weight balls, and investigated which one created the deepest crater.

We have had a fantastic start to this half term, and look forward to the weeks ahead.

In Stiperstones we have made an excellent start to the new academic year. I have been very proud of the way my Y6’s approached their baseline SATs assessments, demonstrating great resilience and maturity. They have made a brilliant start to Y6.

Year 5 have also demonstrated studious approaches to their learning, many making exceptional progress to achieving their pen licences and taking great pride in their work.

In maths we have been working hard on developing our place value knowledge and have just started our adding and subtraction unit.

The children have thoroughly enjoyed writing dairy entries and learning about Annie Edson Taylor this term in English, by studying the non-fiction book written by Chris Van Allsburg- ‘Queen of The Falls’. 

Outstanding science has occurred in Year 5 this term, in our unit ‘Earth and Space’. The children have explored, drawn diagrams and written explanations of how the earth’s rotation and orbiting of the sun causes day and night. They spent a day observing over time, how their shadows move and change shape over the course of the day. Most recently in science, they completing an experiment using fair testing, to create moon craters.

Our geography unit this term has been to create a comparison study between the cities of London and Paris. We have had great fun comparing and exploring the capital cities of England and Paris. Creating travel tourism leaflets, outlining landmarks for each city. Creating bar charts, presenting the amount of rainfall each city has over the months of the year. A lot of children decided to complete extra home learning around this topic over the term which was excellent to see. 

Stiperstones have thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of their learning this term, from creating shadow puppets in the style of Lotte Reiniger in our Art lessons, to learning about networks and systems in our computing sessions.

I have been very impressed by the hard work demonstrated this half term. I hope this further develops next term.

I hope everyone has a well-deserved rest over half term and I look forward to seeing everyone soon.

Miss Scoltock and Mrs Walmsley.

This week we have two superstars to talk about.

First is James:

James is a superstar for his excellent writing about Annie Edson Taylor in English. He takes great pride with his presentation and handwriting, meaning he is extremely close to achieving his pen licence. He’s an excellent role model, always on task and producing high quality pieces of work!

Our second superstar is AJ:

AJ is a superstar for always giving 100% effort in all areas of his learning. He is an extremely polite and conscientious member of the classroom, always helping his peers and adults. Even when things get a little tricky in his learning, he never gives up!

Stiperstones Newsletter and Overview

Stiperstones Newsletter Autumn 1

Autumn 1 Overview for Stiperstones 22-23

We have two superstars this week, as our star of the week last week wasn’t in school to receive their certificate.

Our first star is Tedi

Tedi was a star for making an excellent start to Y6 and creating a fantastic piece of writing about Niagara Falls.

Our second star is Thomas

Thomas is our star this week for being an excellent role model, he is always on task when asked and sets a high expectation for everyone else in the class.

Our first star of the week for this academic year was Ben!

Ben was star of the week for making an excellent start to Year 6 and being a fantastic role model.