Welcome to our Year 1 / 2,

Woodpecker Class page 

Class Teacher: Miss V Bowman

Support Staff: Miss K Fairbrother, Mrs K Tyrrell, Mrs L Clarke, Miss A Wesson, Mrs L Unwin, Miss K Mistry, Mrs T Haghighat

PE Days: Tuesday and Friday 

In Woodpecker Class we love to learn. Every week we enjoy learning new skills in a wide variety of subjects across the curriculum and enjoy implementing these skills in fun and engaging activities.

Please click on the link below for all the information on what we are learning about this half-term. 

This week (9th September - 13th September)

Year 1

English: The children have been doing drama – acting out the story of The Gingerbread Man and hot-seating the characters.  The week culminated in preparing and baking delicious gingerbread men!

Maths: Year 1 have been counting on from a particular number and drawing chalk number lines to aid their understanding.

History: The children had great fun exploring objects that might have been in their grandparents’ homes (and some staff!)  A telephone with a dial sparked huge interest – and the fact that you can’t move too far when using it! 

Year 2

Maths: They have continued their work on place value, with a focus on comparing numbers e.g. 10+5 < 25 and then ordering numbers from smallest to greatest and greatest to smallest.  They can talk about how many tens a number has to help them decide if it is smaller or greater.

English:  After reading Jack and the Beanstalk last week, they have written some of their own settings for the top of the beanstalk.  They drew their setting and thought about what adjectives they could use to describe it.  Then, they wrote descriptive sentences using their senses.

Geography: They were exploring the question 'Why are there so many dairy farms in Devon?' They looked at the area of Devon on a map and some pictures of the farming areas.  They were identifying human features and physical features.  They then looked at the differences in temperature, rainfall and sunshine compared the rest of the UK.

Science: They investigated the question 'Are hard materials absorbent?' and explored hard materials such as wood, metal, plastic and rock.  

DT: They are exploring levers and hinges this week, they made a card which showed an egg hatching so used a hinge to open and close the egg.  The children enjoyed deciding what would hatch from their eggs!

(2nd September - 6th September)

Year 1

In English the children are learning about traditional tales, starting with Little Red Riding Hood.  They have been writing labels, lists and captions. 

In Maths the children in Year 1 have started their mastery maths lessons, working well with partners. They have been counting objects to 10 and sorting objects into groups. 

In Art the children have enjoyed drawing spirals in different ways and in History they have been comparing new and old houses. 

Year 2

In Maths Year 2 have been learning to understand the value of each digit in 2-digit numbers using base 10 equipment and part whole models.  They have been comparing the numbers and deciding which numbers are greater or less.

In English they have read the traditional story Jack and the Beanstalk, created story maps to re-tell the story and have begun collecting adjectives to describe the setting of the castle.

In Science they tested absorbency of different types of paper to see which were the best for cleaning up spillages.  

In Geography the children discussed where dairy products come from.  They followed a farmer in Wales on a dairy farm who showed the process involved for milking cows, refrigerating the milk, collecting it to take to factories where it is pasteurised and bottled up to go the shops.