On Friday, we had great fun celebrating the end of our learning of Treasure Island.
The children made a fantastic effort for Pirate Day. Thank you to all parents who helped with costumes. Everyone looked fantastic!
Author: Beth Scoltock
Super reading in Stiperstones 📖
A huge well done to Pirate Cross and Captain Patkolo for reading over half a million words.
Stiperstones Superstar 🌟
Star of the week this week is… Lauren Kendall
Lauren is Star of the Week for her excellent writing in English this week. She has blown me away with her work, achieving many Y5 expectations. She is also working very hard to achieve her pen license.
Stiperstones Superstar 🌟
Our Star of The Week this week is… Cody Penney.
Cody is Star of the Week for his amazing writing. He really impressed myself and Mrs Platt, with his Kensuke Kingdom writing. I have also been very impressed with the level of maturity Cody is now showing towards his learning and the decisions he is making.
Friday’s Learning
Good morning Stiperstones. It is the last day of our of home learning today so, we are very excited to see you all back at school on Monday. Enjoy your last day of remote learning and we looking forward to seeing you on Monday.
English lesson five:
We have now come to the end of our book ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’. In our English lesson today, we will be reading the final chapter of our book. I hope you have all loved this book as much as we have. Today, your aim is to write your own ending to the story, describing in detail, the final outcome of the story.
The PowerPoint is available for you to access below, to guide you through our task for today.
Maths lesson five:
For today’s maths lesson, we will be continuing to reinforce our knowledge on multiplying a three digit number by a two digit number.
Please click the link below to be able to access today’s learning PowerPoint. From the PowerPoint, please firstly complete today’s fluent in five maths warm up activity. Once you have completed this, you should continue to work your way through the examples to help you with today’s learning and then continue to complete the ‘must, should and could’ available for you.
The video to help you with today’s learning is also available for you to watch below.
Spr5.2.2 – Multiply 3-digits by 2-digits from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.
Afternoon science lesson:
In the story of Joseph, Joseph has a number of strange dreams that contained messages from God. During one of these dreams, Joseph dreamt about the moon and the stars, so, for today’s afternoon lesson we will be learning all about the life cycle of a star.
Please click the link below to be able to access today’s science lesson.
Thursday Learning
It’s World Book Day.
Today, we are celebrating World book day which is a very important day dedicated to all the amazing books that are available for us to read. This day allows us to be able to share our love of reading and our different favourite books that may inspire others to also enjoy our favourite stories.
Today also gives us the chance to have fun dressing up as our favourite characters from these books so you can also dress up at home if you wanted to. It would be lovely if you could upload some photos to class dojo of you in your World book day costumes or a short written piece or video of you describing your favourite book.
Our afternoon lessons will be dedicated to celebrating World book day so we have some fun activities planned for you.
I look forward to seeing all your wonderful outfits and hearing about your favourite books.
English lesson four:
For our English lesson today, we will be learning all about what a haiku poem is and identifying the features of this type of poem. By the end of the lesson, we will aim use our senses to create your own haiku poem based on the vocabulary and events within the story of ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’.
Please click the link below to be able to access the PowerPoints that will guide your through today’s learning.
Maths lesson four:
For maths today, we will move on from our learning yesterday by multiplying a three digit number by a two digit number using the written method.
Please click the link below to be able to access today’s maths lesson that will guide you through our learning. Please firstly complete the fluent in five maths warm up activity and then continue to complete the examples on each slide, followed by the ‘must, should and could’.
The video is also available below to help to guide you through today’s learning.
Spr5.2.2 – Multiply 3-digits by 2-digits from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.
Afternoon World book day lesson:
For World book day, we are studying the book ‘The day the pencils quit’ by Oliver Jeffers. The video of the book is available for you to listen to below.
Instead of studying this book as it is, we are going to be doing a slightly different activity this afternoon for year 5 and 6 that adds an exciting twist to this story.
Like the pencils in the story, the chairs in Stiperstones and Haughmond have had enough in our classroom’s today and decided to riot and leave our classrooms. They have written some very interesting letters to our class, detailing their reasons for leaving. You must read these letters carefully and try to encourage the chairs to come back to class by writing a persuasive reply to their letters.
Click the link below to access today’s PowerPoint that will guide you through our afternoon session.
You can also access some extra activities by clicking the link below you could complete throughout the day as well like making yourself a bookmark or creating a book cover inspired by your favourite book.
I hope you have a lovely time completing our World book day activities.
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Wednesday’s Learning
English lesson three:
During today’s English lesson, we will be reading chapter 8 of ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and firstly, answering questions about this part of the text, then followed by creating a timeline about all the events that you have comes across in the book so far.
Please click the link below to be able to access today’s PowerPoint that will guide you through today’s English lesson.
Maths lesson three:
For maths today, we will now be using the area model method to help u understand how to use the column multiplication method and reinforce our learning of how to multiply a two digit number, so that we have lots of tools to help us work multiplication questions out.
Please click on the link below to access today’s maths learning and work your way through the ‘must, should and could’ set for today.
The video is also available below for you to watch to help you with today’s lesson.
Spr5.1.5 – Multiply 2-digits (area model) from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.
Afternoon History lesson:
We know from studying the Bible story of Joseph, that during this story Joseph was sold by his brothers to be a slave. So, for today’s history lesson we will be looking at the different levels of importance that people had at the time the story of Joseph was set- Ancient Egypt.
For today’s task, you will be writing a diary entry from Joseph’s perspective as a slave. This must be an accurate recount of how a slave would have lived in Ancient Egypt.
Please click the link below to access the PowerPoint that will guide you through today’s learning.
Wednesday 03.03.21 Egyptian lesson-Life as a slave
Tuesday’s Learning
English lesson two:
For Today’s English lesson, we will be reading chapter 7 of the book ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and understanding the events of this chapter. For this task, we will be inferring the meaning of aspects of the text with evidence to support our thoughts and predicting what we think will happen next in the book.
Use the PowerPoint available below to guide you through today’s task.
Maths lesson two:
For today’s maths lesson, we will be continuing to reinforce the method we began to use yesterday on using an area model to guide us in multiplying a 2 digit number.
Please click on the link below to guide you through today’s learning. Please firstly, complete the fluent in five maths warm up activity and then work your way through the ‘must, should and could’ using the examples to help you first.
Please also watch the video below to help you if you are unsure on multiplying a two-digit number using this method.
Afternoon P.S.H.E lesson:
This afternoon, we will be looking the meaning of the the terms equality and equity in relation to the story of Joseph and how Joseph was treated compared to his brothers.
You will then be creating an eye-catching poster all about what equality is and how we should act towards each other to make sure we are treated equally.
Please click the link below to access today’s PowerPoint that will guide you through the meaning of these terms and the task to be completed.
Monday’s Learning
Good morning Stiperstones, I hope you have had a lovely, restful weekend.
This week, we have lots more exciting learning activities planned for you. In English, we will be continuing to study the adventure story ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and in our afternoon lessons, we will continue to complete activities surrounding the Biblical story of Joseph.
I hope you all have a brilliant week.
English lesson one:
For today’s English lesson, we will be continuing to study the book Kensuke’s Kingdom and today will be reading chapter 6. While studying this section of the text, we will be looking at which features are used by the author to create different images within the story.
Please click the link below to be able to access today’s PowerPoint that will guide you through today’s learning.
Below is also the link to access the book ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’.
https://www.dorridge.solihull.sch.uk/Closure/Year-6-Homework/Kensukes_Kingdom_Book.pdf
Maths lesson one:
During our maths lesson today, we will be exploring other mathematical techniques that can be used to allow us to multiply a two digit number.
Please click the link below to be able to access today’s maths learning. Please firstly complete the fluent in five warm up activity first before working through the learning examples and then completing today’s ‘must, should and could’.
Please also watch the video below to guide you on today’s learning.
Spr5.1.4 – Multiply 2-digits (area model) from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.
Afternoon R.E. lesson:
Over the last week, we have been learning about the Biblical story of Joseph.
For this afternoon’s R.E. lesson, you will be recounting the story of Joseph by filling in the gaps in this story, following the worksheet available for you below.
Please click on the link below which will allow you to access today’s PowerPoint that will help you to recap and rewrite the story.
Monday, 1st march Joseph story recount PowerPoint
Monday 1st March Recount template Worksheet
Friday’s Learning
Good morning Stiperstones,
Today Holy Trinity are having an Internet Safety Day. Mr Dickson is going to introduce our day at 9am with an assembly. It is very important that you all join in. We will be having a lesson to further our knowledge on this important topic in the afternoon!
Mr Dickson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Mr Dickson’s KS2 Collective Worship
Time: Feb 26, 2021 09:00 AM London
Meeting ID: 979 1168 2802
Passcode: Trinity
English lesson five:
For our English lesson today, we will be reading chapter 5 of the book ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and exploring the emotions shown in this part of the story. For this activity you will need to answer questions about this part of the text and then identify the emotions described by this author in this chapter and describe how the author shows these emotions.
Please click the link below to access today’s PowerPoint.
The worksheet to be completed for today’s lesson is also available for you to access below.
Friday 26.02 English Lesson 5 Worksheet[1373]
Maths lesson five:
For our maths lesson today, we will be continuing to consolidate our learning of how to multiply a four digit number.
Please click the link below to be able to access the PowerPoint for today’s lesson. Firstly, please complete the fluent in five warm up maths activity on the first slide. After this, work through the examples on using the short written method to multiply a four digit number and then try to complete the ‘must, should and could’ activities.
Challenge yourself by having a go at completing the cheeky challenge too if you complete these first activities.
Maths spring term Friday 26.02.21
A video is also available for you to watch below to recap how to multiply a four digit number.
Spr5.1.3 – Multiply 4-digits by 1-digit from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.
Afternoon Science lesson:
While learning about the Biblical story of Joseph, we have come to learn that Joseph was gifted a coat of many colours by his father Jacob. But how are we able to see the colours of his coat?
For today’s science lesson, we will be learning all about how we are able to see different colours using an experiment and understanding Isaac Newton’s experiment that allowed us to discover how we see colour. Today’s lesson also allows you to make a spectroscope to allow you to see how different colours can be seen.
Please click on the link below to be able to access today’s PowerPoint that will guide you through our learning.
Friday light science lesson 26.02.21
Internet Safety Afternoon
Mr Dickson discussed with you the importance of Internet Safety. We would like you to engage with all the resources on the links below to further your safety.
Click on the links to engage in the videos, games and quizzes that are on this page and watch the live lesson on Internet Safety.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/safer-internet-day-resources/z6bb
