Cherry Class
Welcome to Cherry Class!
2025 - 2026
The staff working in Cherry class are Mrs Rees, Mrs Godlewska, Miss Evans, Mrs Zdrava Miss Hendry and Mrs Williamson. If you have any questions or issues please come and speak to us.
Remember to check out Cherry classes Long Term Plan on the website under curriculum for more information!
Spring Term
Our topic this term is 'Our Local Area/ Community'. During this term we will be learning lots of things daily such as English/Phonics, Maths and Spelling. We will also be learning about our topic.
In Science, we will continue with our learning about... Animals including Humans! We will identify and name a variety of animals and learn all about their features such as talons, gills or fur. We will find out about human body parts and find out about a balanced diet and how germs spread. We will investigate our senses and complete some investigations about our bodies. What animals live in our school habitat? Who will be able to jump the furthest in our class? How could we test this?
In Geography, we will be learning about … Our Local Area/ Bentley. We will find out about things in our local area, any shops, house types and different community buildings. We will understand vocabulary such as near and far. We will begin to understand what maps are, draw classroom plans and then follow a map to go on a local walk around the area! What do you think we will find on our local walk?
In other areas of the Curriculum, we will begin to find out about 'Dreams and Goals' linked to our PSHCE, answer questions in RE such as 'Which books and stores are important?' learn to count to 10 in French and draw shapes, lines and patterns linked to buildings around out local area. How could we show different colours using a pencil? What shapes and patterns do you notice in our local area?
Please see below our Parent Forecast for more information and if you have any questions just ask!
Parents Forecast
PE Kits
PE will be on Wednesday each week.
Please remember children should come to school wearing their PE kits (black or blue shorts/ joggers, trainers/ pumps and a plain white top). Anybody who wears earrings will need to remove them either at home or be able to do this in class independently before the lesson. Any questions please just come and ask!
Homework
This term in Cherry class we have a homework menu about ‘Our Local Area/ Community’ which links to our topic in class. Please complete an activity each week and return the homework by Wednesday.
The children will also need to complete their spellings to for a spelling test on Monday’s each week! Any problems please come and see an adult in Cherry class before Wednesday.
Homework Menu
Reading at home
Apart from the obvious benefits of improving reading skills, by encouraging children to read regularly, it can improve their imagination, spelling and punctuation accuracy. Reading also improves their concentration and vocabulary. The habit also makes children more stylish writers, as they copy elements of authors they have enjoyed and adopt these as their own. Children who read for pleasure are far more academically successful than those that don’t. So it really is a no-brainer: good reading habits make successful children.
By reading regularly with you and discussing the situation that characters find themselves in, children have an invaluable opportunity to help build empathy skills. For example, if a character in a book is being treated unkindly by a classmate, it gives a ‘safe space’ for relationships and treatment of others to be discussed in a situation where children can be objective and measured, rather than approaching the issue with bias and heightened emotion, as may often be the case when these situations arise in their real lives.
Remarkable Readers
Our new Reading recognition system, Remarkable Readers, aims to ensure that all our children are remarkable with their Reading throughout the year. Each time a child reads they achieve a ‘Reading Point’. Depending on age, this could be:
- Reading at home to an adult
- At home independently
Reading Points are cumulative and will be added up weekly throughout the year.
35 points = Bronze Award (Certificate)
85 points = Brilliant Bronze Award (Certificate)
130 points = Silver Award (Certificate, message home and prize)
175 points = Super Silver Award (Certificate, message home and prize)
220 points = Gold Award (Certificate, message home from Mrs Clifford and prize)
265 points = Glittering Gold Award (Certificate, message home from Mrs Clifford and a prize)
310 points = Diamond Award (Certificate, message home from Mrs Clifford and a prize)
355 points = Dazzling Diamond Award (Certificate, message home from Mrs Clifford, a prize and an Afternoon Tea in The Reading Nook with our Reading Ambassadors)
400+ points = Platinum Award (Certificate, message home from Mrs Clifford, a prize and a Book Voucher)
