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.
Homework Menu- One task needs to be completed each week and handed in on a Tuesday.
This term we will be learning all about animals including human beings. We will be discussing the different types of diets that animals have and different features of animals that can help to make them so deadly. When writing we will be producing a narrative and also look at creating our own poem. In Maths, we will be learning about about place value looking at the value of two digit numbers, then we will be moving onto solving addition and subtraction problems. In History, we will be starting to look at the history of flight. We will look at how humans first started to fly and who the people were who invented the first plane. In PE, will be learning the different areas of Gymnastics. We will be learning how to balance, turn and control our bodies. In Music we will be learning a number of different songs all along the theme of flight, such as 'five little men in a flying saucer'.
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.
