Welcome to Woodpeckers Class Page 

Welcome to Woodpeckers Class. We are a class of 9 children and we follow the Orchard Pathway. 

Miss Cheatle is our class teacher and our wonderful teaching assistants are Marie St, Daxa and Darcie.

           

Autumn 2

Our topic for this half term is going to be 'Winter Wonderland'. This is a Design & Technology topic where we will be designing, making and evaluating a product that we will then sell at our Let's Connect event - a Winter Wonderland market! We will be theming our learning each week, covering topics such as Winter weather, Christmas trees, Christmas traditions and religious aspects of Christmas.

We will continue to have PE on a Friday morning and swimming on a Wednesday morning. We will also enjoy Jo Jingles on a Friday afternoon.

Keep an eye on dojo for daily updates on what we get up to!

Autumn 1

This half term we will spend the first 2 weeks getting to know each other and our new environment and making new friends and relationships. For the remainder of the half term, our topic is 'Pottery & Sculpture'. We will be focusing our learning around the book 'Play with Clay'. Each week we will explore a different action you can do with clay, such as roll. We will be finishing the half term with a Let's Connect event - we will create a piece of pottery that will be displayed in a whole school art gallery. 

Woodpeckers will have PE on a Friday morning and Jo Jingles on a Friday afternoon. We will also have Forest School with Dean on a Tuesday morning. Miss Guest will teach Woodpeckers on a Thursday morning while Miss Cheatle is out of class. 

We have worked really hard this half term on the skills that we need to manipulate and model with clay. We have worked on rolling using our hands and a rolling pin, squeezing, pinching and using cutters to make different shapes. We have grown in confidence and independence with these skills and have made lots of beautiful pieces for our whole school art gallery. We have communicated which colours we wanted to paint our pieces with too. We have settled well into Woodpeckers class and are looking forward to the new half term and new topic!