Woodpecker Class

Welcome to Woodpecker Class, we are the wonderful Year 4 and 5’s! 

Our teachers are Mrs Rudman (Monday to Thursday) and Mrs Richards (Friday). Our teaching assistant is Mrs Ford. 

We look forward to an exciting year of learning, working as a team and challenging ourselves to be the best we can be!

Please click on this document to see our Curriculum Map and all the different subjects we will be learning this year. 

We are currently following Map A.


WOODPECKER CLASS CURRICULUM MAP – Y4 Y5

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Mastering Number

Woodpecker Class take part in Mastering Number sessions every day.

Please see our ‘Going for Gold’ core multiplication facts opposite.

Term 3 in Woodpecker Class

We are reading…

Five Children and It by E. Nesbitt

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day ‘It’ will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunset, often with disastrous consequences.


We are learning about…

  • Grouping and classifying living things in Science

  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in English. Focussing on the opening of a story, setting description and how to punctuate speech.

  • Tudors in History

  • In French – Je me présente (Presenting Myself) 

  • Gymnastics in P.E 

  • Written methods of multiplication and division in Maths

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Term 2 in Woodpecker Class

We are reading…

Holes by Louis Sachar

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.

We are learning about…

  • Anglo Saxons in History
  • The Journey by Franci Sanna in English
  • Written addition and subtraction in Maths
  • Netball in PE
  • Earth and Space in Science.

Our artist of the term is…

 Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne was a French artist who lived a long time ago. He loved painting nature, especially mountains, trees, and fruit. He looked carefully at shapes, colors, and how things fit together, which helped him create paintings that feel real and interesting. Cézanne’s work helped other artists learn new ways to see the world

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Term 1 in Woodpecker Class

We are reading…

The Explorer by Katherine Rundell.

From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.

As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small.

Except, it seems, someone has been there before them …

Our artists of the term are…

David Hockney
David Hockney is a British artist who loves using bright colors and bold shapes. He paints pictures of everyday life, like swimming pools, gardens, and people he knows. He often experiments with different ways of creating art, using paint, photography, and even iPads! His work is fun, cheerful, and full of life.

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