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.
Spring 1 2026- Ice, Fire and Iron
This half term, pupils will enjoy a rich and varied curriculum across subjects. In History, Year 3 will explore Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, learning how people lived and how life changed over time, while Year 2 will compare continents with a focus on the polar regions, developing their locational knowledge. In Science, Year 2 will learn about plant habitats and explore the properties and changes of materials, including hands-on sculpture work using soap. Art will be inspired by prehistoric cave paintings from sites such as Lascaux and Chauvet, alongside drawing and painting skills. Pupils will also learn about cooking and nutrition, understanding where food comes from and how to make healthy choices. In RE, Year 2 will find out How Sikhs Celebrate, learning about key beliefs and traditions in Sikhism. In Computing, pupils will develop digital skills through spreadsheets, turtle programming, Scratch, and programming in Year 3. French lessons will introduce elements of L’ancienne histoire de la Grande Bretagne, while PSHE will focus on keeping safe and understanding our place in one world. In PE, pupils will build strength, coordination and teamwork through gymnastics, dance and tag rugby.
The year 3's will be going swimming on a Thursday morning.
Our School Council representitives are:
Iris and Ottie
Our Eco Council member is:
Poppy
Spring i 2026 Cherry Timetable
Our spelling test day will be a Monday. The first test this half term will be on the 12th January 2026.
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 - 12th January
Week 2 test date -19th January
Week 3 test date - 26th January
Week 4 test date -2nd February
Week 5 test date - 9th February
February Half term 16th February - 22nd February
Week 6 test - will be the first week back, day to be confirmed.
Spring i Year 2 2026
Spring i Year 2 2026
Spellings
Spellings
Spring i Year 3 2026
Spring i Year 3 2026
Spellings
Spellings
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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