Cherry Class
Welcome to Cherry Class!
The staff working in Cherry class are Mr Maltby, Miss Wykes and Mr Clifford. If you have any questions or issues please come and speak to us.
Summer 1
This term we will be learning all about Plants in Science. We will be looking at the different parts of plants and what plants need to be able to grow. In History we will be learning about the different people who have helped us to take important steps towards flying as easily as we can today, The Montgolfier Brothers, The Wright Brothers and Otto Lilienthal to name a few! Our class book this term in James and the Giant Peach, we will be looking at the curios friends he meets and the adventures they get upto.
Homework Menu and Parent Forecast
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.
On the website, there is now a dedicated folder to 'Reading'. It is under 'Parents' and then 'Reading'. This page explains about the Oxford Reading Scheme and gives you and your adults useful tips on how to support reading at home. It has some fantastic suggestions of questions to ask when reading at home and offers guidance for parents to feedback to teachers about their child's reading. I look forward to seeing all the wonderful comments on Purple mash about your reading at home.
Please see below for a range of useful documents to support you with your reading at home.
