Woodpecker Class
Welcome to Woodpecker Class! 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 B.
WOW! How fantastic were Woodpecker Class in their performance of Minotaur at Salisbury Playhouse. They have worked so hard on this production and all of their hard work paid off. We hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did! See photos below.
Mastering Number
Thanks to all who came to our Mastering Number showcase this week. Woodpeckers were excited to show off their fantastic learning! They have worked really hard on their times tables this year and should be proud of themselves.
Please see our ‘Going for Gold’ core multiplication facts opposite.
Maths Home Learning Bookets
Here are the Maths home learning sheets for Woodpecker Class.
Term 5 in Woodpecker Class
This term we will be reading Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden.
During World War II, Carrie and her younger brother Nick are evacuated to Wales and billeted with the fierce old shopkeeper Mr Evans and his mousy sister, Louise.
Unhappy in their new home, they are delighted to have the chance to visit fellow evacuee Albert Sandwich at Druid’s Bottom, the strange household of Hepzibah Green, who knows magical stories, and Mister Johnny, who speaks a language all his own. But then Carrie makes a mistake, which has terrible, unforseen consequences.
We are all excited to start learning our musical, Minotaur, ready for our performance at the Playhouse in July. This term, we will begin to learn the songs and allocate parts. We will also be taking part in a workshop in school with Salisbury Playhouse. Exciting things to come!
Term 4 in Woodpecker Class
In R.E this term we have been learning about Islam. This week, we looked at prayer mats, the Qu’ran and a taqiyah. We have learnt about Muslim prayer and the 5 Ks Muslims follow to lead a good life.
Our Whole Class Reading text this term is George’s Secret Key to the Universe by Lucy and Stephen Hawking.
Meet George. He’s an ordinary boy with an incredible secret – the power to go on intergalactic adventures! Join him as he battles a sinister rebel-scientist, who’s hell bent on sabotaging the most exciting – and dangerous – experiment of the century.
Last term, we had a very impressive array of games made for the Termly Topic. We had lots of fun playing these games and reading each others termly topics.
Term 3 in Woodpecker Class
In D.T this term we are learning about mechanical systems, levers and linkages. We have started by investigating different types of levers and having a go at making our own. We have looked at fixed pivot points and what happens to the output of the system when we change the input.
Whole Class Read: The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf.
There used to be an empty chair at the back of Mrs. Khan’s classroom, but on the third Tuesday of the school year a new kid fills it: nine-year-old Ahmet, a Syrian refugee.
The whole class is curious about this new boy–he doesn’t seem to smile, and he doesn’t talk much. But after learning that Ahmet fled a Very Real War and was separated from his family along the way, a determined group of his classmates bands together to concoct the Greatest Idea in the World–a magnificent plan to reunite Ahmet with his loved ones.
Author of the Term: Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell is the author of Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner), The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, The Good Thieves, and The Zebra’s Great Escape. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, and London, and is currently a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She begins each day with a cartwheel and believes that reading is almost exactly the same as cartwheeling: it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless.
Term 2 in Woodpecker Class
In History we have learnt about significant monarchs from the past. We investigated different sources to better understand the influence these monarchs have had on our lives today.
In English we have worked hard to write discussion texts based upon our model text: Should games consoles be made available in school?
We had some interesting topics of discussion such as does an axolotl make a good pet and who would win in a fight between a phoenix and a dragon!
Term 1 in Woodpecker Class
In English, we have been working on a poem called The Monster Alphabet by Pie Corbett. We made our own actions to each rhyming couplet and performed the poem as a class on the playground.
In Maths, we have enjoyed tackling, Which Scripts? A challenging problem solving activity, in which we had to think logically and use our place value skills. Good perseverance was shown by all!
In Outdoor Learning, with Mrs Diserens, we used clay and other natural materials to make snails and hedgehogs!
We are reading…
Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
I heard the wind above me in the sails. I remember thinking this is silly, you haven’t got your safety harness on, you haven’t got your lifejacket on. You shouldn’t be doing this… I was in the cold of the sea before I could even open my mouth to scream. Washed up on an island in the Pacific, Michael struggles to survive on his own. With no food and no water, he curls up to die.
When he awakes, there is a plate beside him of fish, of fruit, and a bowl of fresh water. He is not alone…
Our artist of the term is…
Yayoi Kusama – a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts.
