Cherries Summer 1

24th May 2022H Warburton

This half term Cherries started our topic of Magnificent Monarchs. We have been learning lots about the Queen. We have read lots of books about the Queen including The Queen’s Hat and The Queen’s Handbag. We have retold the stories and looked at naming and matching London landmarks from the story.

In Science we have been learning about growth, we planted sunflowers in class and have been measuring and observing their growth over the weeks.

We celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with lots of great activities, including decorated biscuits red, white and blue, joining Willows class for some games and enjoyed a picnic on the main school field.

 

Cherries Spring 2

4th April 2022H Warburton

This half term Cherries have continued with their Coastlines topic. In Literacy we have been reading Katie Morag books, we have retold the story and looked at characters’ feelings and explaining why they were feeling this way.

In Science we have been learning about plants and what they need to survive, we also explored some unusual plants that don’t need certain things to grow. For British Science Week we created some plant posters drawing and labelling what plants need to survive. In Maths we have been identifying coins and notes and began adding varied coins to make different amounts.

For Red Nose Day we created 6 different red noses using different media. We also created some lighthouses in DT by cutting and wrapping red and white stripes of paper, scrunching tissue paper to create the rocks and the sea and adding a tea light for the light. Some children commented they looked like The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch lighthouses and that we should connect them with string to send his packed lunch. Some great learning this half term!

 

 

Cherries Spring 1

15th February 2022H Warburton

This half term in Cherries our topic has been ‘Coastlines’. We have been reading ‘The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch’ books and the children participated in some fantastic role play to retell the story.

We made our own delicious packed lunches and some of us were brave enough to taste mustard!

In Geography we have been exploring maps and globes and labelled the countries of the UK and its surrounding seas and oceans.

In Science we have been learning about materials. We went on a material hunt around our classroom. We have also tested properties of materials to see if they can bend, stretch, squash or twist and if materials are waterproof.

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 2

16th July 2021H Warburton

This half term our topic has been Parks and Playgrounds. In Literacy we have been reading Percy the Park Keeper books, ordering the story, using colourful semantics to retell the story and writing sentences about the story. We have also played lots of I spy using park pictures.

In Maths we have been identifying heavy and light objects and turned ourselves into human scales to say if an object was heavy or light.

Our sports day was a carousel of activities using skills we have been practising all year. We used hockey sticks, cricket bats, footballs and basketballs. We then cooled off afterwards with an ice lolly.

We ended our topic with a trip to Hedworthfield park, it was lovely and sunny and we had lots of fun.

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.