Welcome to Cherry Class!

The staff working in Cherry class are Mrs Rees, Miss Wykes, Miss Wallett and Mrs Godlewska. If you have any questions or issues please come and speak to us.

Summer Two

This half term our topic in Cherry class is 'Under the Sea'.

We will be completing lots of work about the sea, sea creatures and different habitats.

In Science, we will be finding out about habitats such as the beach and under the water. We will find out about the animals that live there and also find out which habitat is best suited for different animals. What is your favourite sea creature?

In Geography, we will be finding out about oceans, seas and different continents. We will learn about the five oceans of the world and the seven continents.  We will revisit our previous learning on the United Kingdom, locating it again on a map before we look at the human and physical features of some British coasts and beaches, then comparing these to some other coastlines around the world. Have you been to a sea before? What was it like?

In Art, we will be painting a colour wash which we will then use as background when we draw an paint a sea creature. Afterwards we will add collage materials to make our painting 3d.

In Design Technology, we will make biscuits in the shape of sea creatures. We will design and make them following the recipe carefully. Do you like biscuits? What is your favourite type?

We will also complete work in other areas of the curriculum linked to our topic such as RE, ICT, PE and Music.

Finally, we will also begin some work on transition, talking about life cycles and how they will change and stay the same as they get older. Afterwards we will talk about being assertive and finally begin to think about next year and the changes they will have. 

Summer One

This half term in Cherry class our topic is' Orchestra'.

In Music, we will be learning about the orchestra and finding out about the 4 sections. We will find out about brass, woodwind, string and percussion instrument. What instruments do you know? Which part of the orchestra will they be in?

In History, we will find out about 2 composers from different times. We will find out what it was like for Mozart in the 18th century and Andrew Lloyd Webber in the 21st century. Do you know anything about these 2 composers? How was life the same and different for them?

In Science, we will learn about sound. We will go on sound walks, learn how to describe sounds using the correct vocabulary and complete some investigations to find out what happens as we move away from the sound source. Do you know how sound gets to our ears?

In Design Technology (DT), we will investigate instruments, how they work and what they are made from. Afterwards we will design and create our own instruments. How will you create the sound will you hit, shake, pluck, blow or buzz your lips to make it work?

We will also be doing lots of other things such as PE, Art, PSHCE, Literacy, Numeracy and some ICT work on keeping safe online.

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.

Useful Websites