Cherry Class
Welcome to Cherry Class
Mrs Sivyer and Mrs Wakeman teach Cherry class. Cherry class is our Year 2 class.
Our topic for Summer i 2024 is... Space
For more information please read our newsletter below.
Our Monster Phonics spellings for the Summer term 2024
Our spelling test day will be a Friday. Please help your child to learn their spellings.
Children will bring home paper copies of thewir spellings so that you know which ones they should be learning.
If you require any additional help please ask.
English overview - what your child should know by the end of Year 2
English overview - what your child should know by the end of Year 2.pdfMaths overview - what your child should know by the end of Year 2
t-par-580-what-your-child-should-know-year-2-maths-guide-english_ver_12.pdfOur approach to writing in Cherry class
During the Autumn and Spring term we will be using The Drawing Club in our English lessons. The Drawing Club is a time for children to choose to come and be creative with their imagination. After listening to a traditional tale, a well-known story or an animation from the past, the children are taken on an adventure with words, actions and descriptive drawings. The children use their imagination to create a theme, object or character from the story and they use their stories as a conversation starter to talk about what their picture means to them. It allows us to immerse children in the world of story. It enables us to share a treasure trove of vocabulary with children to open up the playground of language to them.
Later the children will be continuing to learn to write through ‘The Write Stuff’ approach. It is a fun, creative and rigorous approach to develop writers. We start writing from enjoying and sharing books and stories, placing a strong emphasis on a love of literature.
'The Write Stuff' follows a method called 'Sentence Stacking' which refers to the fact that sentences are stacked together chronologically and organised to engage children with short, intensive moments of learning that they can then immediately apply to their own writing. An individual lesson is based on a sentence model, broken into 3 learning chunks. Each learning chunk has three sections:
Initiate section – a stimulus to capture the children’s imagination and set up a sentence. Children 'chot' (chat and jot) down their ideas in the initiate phase from stimulating resources, such as pictures, music and drama.
Model section – the teacher then models sentence scaffolds that outlines clear writing features and techniques taken from the 'Writing Rainbow'.
Enable section – the children write their sentence, following the model.
Children are challenged to ‘Deepen the Moment’ which requires them to independently draw upon previously learnt skills and apply them to their writing during that chunk.
Through regular reading, we want children to build up an extensive and rich vocabulary for use in their own writing and this word collecting is an integral part of the write stuff approach.
Gallery
We found out about the abstract artist Peter Thorpe and we have started to create our own abstract pieces of work.
We love maths
We enjoy reading in our library
Super art - working on our fine motor skills after looking at pen drawings by Vincent Van Gogh.
