Cherry Class
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Cherry Class is a Year 2 and 3 class.
Our class teaching adults are Mrs Sivyer and Mrs Jappy.
For more information please read our newsletter below.
Summer i 2026 - Journeys That Changed The World
This half term in Cherry Class, our topic is Journeys That Changed the World. In History, Year 3 will explore the Industrial Revolution, learning how life changed over time, including the impact of railways and steam travel. In Geography, Year 2 will study explorers and adventurers, finding out about famous journeys, mapping routes across the world and developing their understanding of continents and oceans. In Science, we will be learning about rocks, soils and fossils, investigating their properties and how they are formed.
In English, we will be writing adventure stories and diary entries inspired by exploration, while developing our descriptive writing and reading comprehension skills. In Maths, we will focus on fractions, length and height, as well as multiplication and division. Our PE lessons will take place on Wednesdays and Fridays, and we will continue to promote active lifestyles throughout the week. It is set to be an exciting half term full of discovery and learning across the curriculum!
Our School Council representatives are:
Poppy and Maddison
Our Eco Council member is:
Sumer i 2026 Cherry Timetable
Our spelling test day will be a Monday. The first test this half term will be on the Tuesday 14th April 2026 - due to the Inset day on Monday 13th.
Please help your child to learn their spellings.
Children will bring home a paper copies of their spellings for the half term so that you know which ones they should be learning.
If you require any additional help please ask.
Year 2 and 3 Spellings tests on a Monday
Year 2 uses the end of Spring ii sheet below for the 1st 2 weeks of Summer i
Spring ii / summer i Year 2 2026
Spring ii / summer i Year 2 2026
Easter
13/04/26 - week 5 - Tuesday 14th April
20/04/26 - week 6
YEAR 2 - Spellings for Summer i continue on sheet below.
Year 2 2026 Summer i 2026
Year 2 2026 Summer i 2026
27/04/26 - week 1
04/05/26 - test on Tuesday due to bank holiday - week 2
11/05/26 - week 3
18/05/26 - week 4
Half Term
Year 2 Summer ii
YEAR 2 2026
Summer ii 2026
1/06/26 - week 5
08/06/26 - week 6
NEW Spelling
<-- Table
15/06/26 - week 1
22/06/26 - week 2
29/06/26 - week 3
06/07/26 - week 4
13/07/26 - week 5
Year 3 uses the Spring ii sheet below for the 1st 2 weeks of Summer i
Year 3 2026
Year 3 2026
Spring i//Summer i Spellings
Easter
13/04/26 - week 5 - Tuesday 14th April
20/04/26 - week 6
Year 3 - Spellings for Summer i continue below
Year 3 2026 Summer i 2026
Year 3 2026 Summer i 2026
27/04/26 - week 1
04/05/26 - test on Tuesday due to bank holiday - week 2
11/05/26 - week 3
18/05/26 - week 4
Half Term
Year 3 Summer ii
YEAR 3 2026
Summer ii 2026
1/06/26 - week 5
08/06/26 - week 6
NEW Spelling
<--Table
15/06/26 - week 1
22/06/26 - week 2
29/06/26 - week 3
06/07/26 - week 4
13/07/26 - week 5
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
Cherry class uses the Drawing Club approach 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.
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