Woodpeckers

Woodpeckers Art – Imagination

by | 5 May 2026 | Art & Design, Environment, Woodpeckers

This term we have been focusing on observational drawings, the children have created lots of beautiful art work! To finish our unit off today the children got to use their imagination to create a ‘magical plant’!

Roman Invasion

by | 4 Apr 2026 | History, Woodpeckers

Today we learnt how Britain became part of the Roman Empire, to help the children understand this, we acted it out! The children each took on a role; Emperor Claudius, Roman soldiers and Roman messengers, as well as, Boudica, Celt warriors and Celt villagers. The children had a fantastic time!

Drawing

by | 4 Apr 2026 | Art & Design, Environment, Woodpeckers

We began our new art unit of ‘Drawing’ this week! We learnt some techniques of how to sketch using shape and put these to the test in our natural environment! The children created some beautiful artwork.  

Year 3 Maths

by | 3 Mar 2026 | Maths, Woodpeckers

Year 3 have had a great time exploring and comparing mass, looking at the equivalent of kilograms and grams!

Geography – Mud Mountains

by | 3 Mar 2026 | Environment, Geography, Woodpeckers

Today we have been learning about mountains in India and their mountain ranges; we learnt that there are 5 types of mountains and created a catchy rhyme to help memorise these. We focused on fold mountains and plateau mountains. To make our learning even more interesting and creative we built our own mountain ranges in […]

Instructions for Making Tea

by | 2 Feb 2026 | English, Woodpeckers

Here is some of our published work from our instruction writing this half term. We used imperative verbs, adverbs ending in -ly, the simple present tense and some of us also used adverbials of time.

Woodpeckers – Bird Feeders

by | 2 Feb 2026 | Forest Schools, Woodpeckers

In Forest School this week, we used toilet roll holders to create our own mini bird feeders. We smothered out toilet roll in lard, then rolled them in the oats and seeds to cover all the lard up. Some of us added cocktail sticks so the birds can land on our feeders. Once finished, we […]

Music – Chinese New Year

by | 1 Jan 2026 | Music, Woodpeckers

Today we practiced Pentatonic Scales! We have been exploring the musical sounds of Chinese New Year, here are some of our own.        

Forest School

by | 1 Jan 2026 | Design Technology, Forest Schools, Woodpeckers

Every Friday for this half term, we have Forest Schools. Our curriculum link for these sessions is D&T, with a focus on cooking. Today we all had a turn at making salt dough; we measured the flour and salt, carefully poured in water then mixed it using our hand. We then molded the dough into […]

Christmas Biscuits!

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Woodpeckers

As part of our final day before the Christmas holidays, we all had four rich tea biscuits to decorate with icing and sprinkles. Everyone enjoyed making these and we let them set before enjoying them with our Christmas film (The Grinch animated version). Apologies if none made it home, they were very tasty! Have a […]

Hey Ewe!

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Community, Kingfishers, Parents, Woodpeckers

The children in Kingfishers and Woodpeckers Class took part in their nativity performance of ‘Hey Ewe!’ to their family members in Stratford St Mary Church. They sang their songs beautifully, said their words clearly and were very well behaved whilst the other children performed. Great performance Kingfishers and Woodpeckers.

Art – 3D Sculpture

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Art & Design, Woodpeckers

Woodpeckers have been busy this term creating 3D sculptures; here are their final pieces!