Woodpecker Class
Class Teacher: Mrs Basharat
Learning Support Assistant: Mrs Murphy
Outdoor Learning and Library day: Thursday
PE Day: Wednesday
Autumn B
Today was Global Outdoor Learning Day, so we wrote instructions for making a soup for the class dragon. We worked in groups to collect the natural items we needed from the woodland area before working together to use our bossy verbs to write the instructions as we added the ingredients to the mixture.
A box arrived in class with a ‘fragile handle with care’ notice, and it was addressed to Woodpecker Class! What could it be? We made lots of guesses and then opened the box carefully. We were all very excited to find a baby dragon inside!
Autumn A
In Design and Technology, we are learning how to join two materials together. Our final project will be to design and make our own hand puppets.
As the first step in our learning journey, we made finger puppets to practise our joining skills and explore different materials. We enjoyed designing, creating and testing our puppets while developing our practical skills ready for our final project.
Today we were visited by the Rainbow Theatre Company. They introduced us to the story of the Great Fire of London and we have learnt lots about what happened in 1666.
Our Class Flag
We created our very own class flag, inspired by our school values. Together, we shared ideas and designed a flag that represents who we are as a class. We are proud to be Woodpeckers, and we are determined to work together, support one another and be the very best team we can be!
As part of our maths learning, we played Snakes and Ladders to practise counting forwards from a given number. We had lots of fun while developing our counting skills!
Children used concrete resources to represent the number they chose from the number cards, enriching their understanding of place value and their knowledge of tens and ones.
Woodpeckers have had a wonderful start!
They have settled in beautifully and have already shown great enthusiasm, kindness and eagerness to learn. We are so proud of how well they have adapted to their new routines and are looking forward to a fantastic year ahead!
