Cherries Autumn 2

10th December 2021H Warburton

This half term Cherries topic has been To Infinity and Beyond. We have been reading the Aliens Love Underpants books and finished this half term with Aliens Love Panta Claus.

We have retold the stories, wrote descriptions about the underpants, created wanted posters to catch the aliens and matched rhyming words in Literacy.

In art we have been using paints to mix and add textures to paint underpants and in DT we made split pin astronauts. We used all of this work to create a fabulous display outside of our classroom.

In maths we have been naming 2D and 3D shapes and looking at the properties of shapes. We all went on a shape hunt around school and found lots of objects of all different shapes.

In science we have been learning about living and non-living, we are able to sort and name living and non-living things and explain what it means to be alive.

We have finished off this half term with some Christmas activities. We have decorated our class Christmas tree, drew our own Christmas jumpers on Christmas jumper day, enjoyed time with Willows at our Christmas party and had a winter warmer session toasting marshmallows.

 

Cherries Autumn 1

20th October 2021H Warburton

This half term in Cherries our topic has been Teeth, Claws and Dinosaurs. We have been reading the series Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs and retold the story, described the characters and identified the characters feelings and why they feel that way.

In cookery and DT we have made cookies with dinosaur foot prints in, used a dinosaur foot print cutter in cookies and made our own salt dough that we printed a dinosaur into.

In science we have described dinosaur skeletons and sorted them into different categories as well as sorting dinosaurs into different categories.

In ICT we have used the iPads to take photos, videos and even used augmented reality to put a stegosaurus in our school!

Cherries Summer 1

24th May 2021H Warburton

This half term in Cherries our topic has been Summertime. We have been learning all about hot and cold items and packing a suitcase for a hot and cold holiday. We also kept a weather chart for a week looking outside to see the weather every morning and afternoon (it was very rainy!)

We have read the story The Messy Magpie which all about recycling which linked to our Science topic of materials.

In DT we have practised cutting different fruit and made a banana loaf which we all had a try of.

In PE we have been using tennis rackets to practise balance and aiming.

Autism Awareness in Cherries

1st April 2021H Warburton

For Autism Awareness week Cherries collaged number 7’s in bright coloured paper to represent the 700,000 people in the UK who have autism.

We then created self-portraits with pictures of 7 things that we enjoy. Can you guess who is who?

Red Nose Day in Cherries

19th March 2021H Warburton

For Comic Relief in Cherries we decorated 6 red noses using different styles of art.

We then played bowling with Red Noses and went fishing for red noses using different sized spoons.

Cherries Maths Day

19th March 2021H Warburton

Cherries completed some fantastic shape work for Maths Day. We created graphs looking at different shapes and colours. Then practised our cutting skills creating a rocket out of different shapes.

Cherries Autumn 2

16th December 2020H Warburton

This half term Cherries topic has been Let’s Celebrate!

We have learned about bonfire night and read the story Sparks Fly in Literacy. We made our own firework pictures on the computer and with paint by dipping and twist toilet roll holders.

Our next celebration was Remembrance day, we completed poppy jigsaws, painted cake cases to make poppies and used red icing and chocolate buttons to make poppy biscuits.

We then learned about Diwali and read the story Dipal’s Diwali. We sequenced the story and used colourful semantics to make sentences about the story. We made Diva Lamps and explored lights and scents in Science.

We then celebrated Christmas and read the story Ten Little Lights. We were excellent as identifying the animals either verbally or using symbols. We also had great fun helping to decorate our class Christmas tree!

A very busy half term.

 

Cherries Autumn 1

22nd October 2020H Warburton

This half term Cherries topic has been ‘Magnificent Me!’ We have all settled back into school well and love our new classroom. We enjoy using our own outdoor space to enhance our learning, such as water play or writing with chalks.

In PE with Adam we have been practising running around cones, weaving through cones, running in hula hoops and jumping over hurdles. We are able to complete these very independently.

We have been learning all about plants in Science, labelling their parts, what helps them grow and planting some of our own seeds.

In Art we used a mirror to look at our faces to draw an accurate self-portrait. Our drawings were amazing! Using the correct eye and hair colours and some of us even drew our hairstyles.

We have also loved having Lenny, the school dog, in our class. Our confidence is growing in touching him and some of us love to hold his lead when we take him for a walk.

A fun and busy half term!

 

 

Spring Term 2

5th April 2019V Scott

Red Group have had a great half term. We have started swimming lessons at Jarrow pool and are becoming more confident in the water. Here we are having a race across the pool!

February News

4th March 2019V Scott

We have been learning tennis in PE with Coach Adam this month. We have been trying hard to develop our skills in serving the ball and hitting it accurately.

We are all trying hard with our reading at home, and are very excited about our new Karate Readers scheme!