Cherry Class
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Cherry Class is a Year 2 class.
Our class teaching adults are Mrs Sivyer and Mrs Jappy.
For more information please read our newsletter below.
Our spelling test day will be a Monday. The first test will be on the 15th September 2025.
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 test dates always on a Monday
Week 1 test date - 15th Sep
Week 2 test date - 22nd Sep
Week 3 test date - 29th September
Week 4 test date -6th October
Week 5 test date - 13th October
Week 6 test date - 20th October
HALF TERM 27th October - 2nd November
Week 7 test date - 3rd November
Year 2 Spellings
Year 3 Spellings
Our School Council representitives are:
Iris and Ottie
Our Eco Council member is:
Poppy
Autumn i 2025
This half term, our topic “One World – Living Together” will explore the fascinating connections between people, animals, and the places we live. Pupils in Year 2 and Year 3 will be learning through science, geography, and art, discovering how humans and animals interact with their environments. In science, Year 2 will explore living things and their habitats, learning to distinguish between things that are living, dead, or have never been alive, while Year 3 will investigate skeletons and muscles, understanding how bodies are built to move and grow. In geography, we will study where we live in the UK and compare it with settlements in India, exploring physical and human features. Our art and English work will link to patterns from around the world, including Rangoli designs from India and patterns found in local surroundings, helping pupils make creative connections across subjects.
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.pdf
Our 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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