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This half term, the Woodpeckers have been learning about healthy diets. They have learnt about where food comes from and how to have a balanced diet. They designed their own healthy pasta salads and thought about the ingredients that they would like to use. The children chopped and prepared their ingredients to make their own […]

Recently, the Woodpeckers shared their learning of position and direction with their parents. They have been learning about quarter, half, three quarter and full turns; going clockwise and anti-clockwise. Some children used the Ipads to programme the beebots to reach the correct flower using positional language, some children had to cut and stick gruffalo pictures […]

The children in Kingfishers Class have been celebrating the arrival of the royal baby. The children were given the challenge of naming the baby. The year one children thought of a name for each letter of the alphabet and the reception children thought of their favourite name. The children found out the weight of our […]

This half term The Woodpeckers have been focusing on ‘Shape, space and measure’ in the Maths and have been measuring different things. They used cm and m to measure the distances cars travelled along the floor; g and kg to measure objects and ml and l to measure how much water was in the jugs. […]
This half term the Anti Bullying Buddies have been going out on ‘Kindness Watch’ at break times and lunch times. They have been helping Miss Kluge identify children who are doing kind things such as turn taking, letting others join in with their games, playing nicely and helping each other. The Anti Bullying Buddies have […]

The Woodpeckers have continued their learning about Kenya by learning about The Maasai Tribe. The children learnt lots of facts by looking at different photographs and artefacts about the Maasai Tribe. This is a tribe of people living in the planes of Kenya. They learnt all about tribal culture and ways of life. Then they […]

This week, the Woodpeckers have been learning about the properties of 2D shapes. The children had to sort their shapes based on different criteria using Venn diagrams and Caroll diagrams as well as making different 2D shapes on Geoboards, by thinking carefully about their properties. The children worked in groups to have a go at […]
Friday 22nd March was the turn of The Woodpeckers to share their work from this half term. They showed off their knowledge of time to the nearest 5 minutes by getting the audience to challenge them to show a specific time on their clocks. They told everybody about their ‘trip’ to Kenya and shared their […]

On Thursday 21st March we celebrated ‘National Forestry Day’ with the children from Orchard Barns. They sent us a letter inviting us to take part in a bug house building competition. The children worked in groups creating a bug home. They collected different materials from the wood area and worked together to build their structure. […]

Recently, the Woodpeckers stepped on board Woodpecker Airlines with their passports and boarding passes ready to fly to Kenya! They have been learning about Kenya as part of their Geography topic and so they boarded the class plane to go and find out all about Kenya. The children put on their sun glasses and sun […]

Thursday 6th March saw some of our Year 2 children take part in a Dodgeball Festival at Inspire in Ipswich. The children competed against 8 other schools; they played well, with some great moves, skill and teamwork shown. We were very pleased when we heard our school had won the Fair Play Award – given for […]

Recently, the Sports Council met to think of ideas as to how we could improve Sport and PE within the school. The children had plenty of ideas, with the most popular being the need for a lunchtime sports club. The Sports Council then decided which sports to offer the children at lunchtime, created a questionnaire […]