Cherry Class - Year 1 & Year 2 2024 - 2025

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Welcome to Cherry Class Year 1 and Year 2

We are really lucky to have different people who help us in Cherry Class.

Here are our key adults:

• Mrs Crook – Class Teacher (Monday-Thursday)
• Miss Woods - Teaching Assistant
• Mr Kelly-Weekes- PE Teacher (Wednesday)
• Miss Sparrow- Trainee Teacher

Spring 2

What are we reading in Cherry Class?

English

Our focus text for Pathways to Write will be The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth. Our writing outcome will be to write story based on the structure of the book with a change of character. Y1 will be joining words and clauses using 'and', punctuating sentences using full stops, question marks and exclamation marks and also using suffixes e.g ed, ing, er, est. Y2 will be learning to use the present and past tense correctly, use the progressive form of verbs (jumping, singing, running etc), using subordination (because, when) and using apostrophes for posession.

Maths
We follow ‘Maths No Problem’ daily and continue to become super mathematicians. Year 1 will be solving additiona nd subtraction word problems and begin to understand the idea of multiplication and divisoion. Y2 will be learning about fractions (halves, quarters and thirds).

We also have maths fluency sessions 4 afternoons per week. We follow the NCETM Mastering Number programme for this. 

We love Numbots! We have daily practise on Numbots on the class ipads and we hope that the children continue this at home. We give out certificates for different levels achieved fortnightly in our Friday celebration assembly. 

Science
Year 1 and 2 will be learning about 'Plants'. The children will explore decidious and evergreen trees, wild and garden plants, name the main parts of plants, find out what happens during germination, understand what plants need to grow well and also do some planting of our own. 

Wider Curriculum

Our RE topic will be Islam. We will understand why Muslims think it is important to obey God and the five pillars of Islam. 

Our Design and Technology topic this half term is smoothie making. 

In Geohgraphy the chidlren will learn about the weather in the UK. They will learn about the different seasons, capital cities within the UK, different weather across the UK, weather maps and symbols and how people prepare for different weather. 

Computing will be a focus on technology all around us and how it can be used safely. 

PE 

PE is on Wednesday and Friday. Please come to school dressed in full PE kit on this day.

Reading

At Westfield, we expect all children to complete five reading sessions a week. These should be recorded on each child’s individual reading account on the Boom Reader app. The children are split into different Read Write Inc. Phonics groups whilst in school and will have a separate book focus for that week which can be accessed from home via Oxford Owl and sent home in their book bags each week. Their books need to go home every night and come back to school every morning. We encourage all of our children to read five times per week. We also have a library where children are encouraged to take home a library book that interests them, to share with an adult at home. this is a 'reading for pleasure' book.

Online Learning Resources

Our children have access to a range of online resources to aid their learning. Here are the links to some useful websites that children can use whilst not in school, their usernames and passwords can be found on their bookmark  All children are familiar with how to use these.