Woodpeckers News

Thank you so much to all our wonderful parents for coming into Woodpecker class and spending the morning with the children. They absolutely loved completing the escape room with you. I know secretively you all loved it too! 😂 When you left, the children loved eating their popping candy prize. Thanks for your support this …

Today, we went outside on a scavenger hunt for different plants, animals and objects. Woodpeckers worked in small groups to find and identify different things on their sheet (birds, leaves, clouds, rocks, mushrooms and many more) and they had to take their own photos. Below are a selection of those photos – enjoy! Can you …

In our reading lessons, we have been studying The Iron Man. This week, we worked in small groups to act out different scenes from the book. The children created freeze frames to start their scene and we used thought tracking to find out how different characters and objects were feeling. They then used movement, expressions …

This morning, Woodpeckers were learning how to add and subtract 1s, 10s, 100s and 1000s. They completed three different practical activities including: 1. Matching – the children had four sets of cards (add 10s, add 100s, subtract 10s and subtract 100s). They had to work in partners to match the number sentence with the correct …

In Woodpeckers, we have been doing some practical Maths to finish our place value unit. Year 3 were completing a range of activities including, ordering numbers, comparing numbers, finding more or less and partitioning numbers. Year 4 were learning how to use Roman numerals and were creating these using lollipop sticks.

    Today, Vision Education re-visited Tranmere to hold their Unsung Hero Awards Ceremony. Over the past few weeks, lots of children (and adults) have been spotted showing ‘hero behaviours’ both in school and within their wider community, and today, they received some certificates and awards in recognition of this. Dylan in Kingfishers also recieved …

Today, School Council have been busy setting up some alternative provisions on both the KS1 and KS2 playgrounds. Between now and summer, when the weather is nice, the team will be providing a small chess and colouring area for the children to enjoy.

After running for years 1, 2, 3 and 4, it’s now UKS2’s chance to start chess club. If you are currently in Puffins, Kingfishers or Doves and would like to come to chess club, it will run on a Monday playtime with Miss Ingram in the KS2 shared area.

Over the past few weeks, School Council have been encouraging all pupils to take part in Vision Education’s design an Easter Egg competition. All entires were collected by the council team and sent to Vision Education and today, the winners were announced… 1st – Lucy B, 2nd – Zaiba K, 3rd – Neveyah P. A …

Last week was British Science Week, and this year’s theme was ‘time’. To celebrate this, all pupils from EYFS to Year 6 engaged in a range of different activities, experiments and investigations revolving around this topic. There were live lessons from the farm with NFU Education, engineering and fossil story times from the STEM Hub, …
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