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
• Mrs McIlroy - PPA Cover Teacher (Tuesday and Friday)

Spring 1

What are we reading in Cherry Class?

English

Our focus text for Pathways to Write will be The Lion Inside. Our writing outcome will be to write a short story about a small animal who befriends a larger animal. Y1 will be using capial letters and full stops to punctuaute sentences and begin to use exclamation marks and question marks too. Y2 will be learning to write different sentences such as statements, commands, exclamations and questiosns and punctuating them correctly. They will also continue their use of subordination (because, introduce when). 

Maths
We follow ‘Maths No Problem’ daily and continue to become super mathematicians. Year 1 will be learning about numbers to 40, solving addition and subtraction word problems and introduce the idea if multiplication and division. Year 2 will be learning multiplication and division with 2, 5 and 10. 

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 'Living Things and Their Habitats'. The children will explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive. They will learn how to identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats; and describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food

Wider Curriculum

Our RE topic will be Hiduism. We will learn about the different gods that Hindus worship and look at how they do thjis. We will link it back to our own lives and how we show our devotion to others. 

Our Art and Design focus will be on sculpture and making clay houses. 

In History ithe chidlren will investigate and explore how toys have changed over time. 

Computing will be a focus on digital painting and how we can use different apps and tolls to create images. 

PE 

PE is on Monday (outdoor) and Thursday (indoor). 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.