Cherry Class - Year 2
Cherry is a Year 2 class and the teacher is Mrs Jeffers
Welcome to Cherry Class!
We have a fun-filled and exciting final half term planned in Cherry Class!
Our topic this term is “What makes Carlton special?” To launch our learning, we’ll be heading out on a local adventure to explore Carlton village. We’ll be identifying human and physical features, creating maps, and using directional language through fieldwork. Later, we’ll learn about the types of food grown in Carlton and discuss the benefits of buying locally.
In English, we’ll be diving into the delightful story Supertato! Children will get the chance to interview characters like the Evil Pea and Supertato, before using adjectives and expanded noun phrases to describe them. They’ll then plan and write their very own Supertato story, set in a location of their choice—some of the ideas already shared have been wonderfully imaginative!
In Maths we will continue working on time, learning to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes, including O’clock, half past, quarter to, and quarter past. We will then explore statistics, working with tally charts and data interpretation.
We’ll be inspired by the land artist Andy Goldsworthy, creating our own natural artwork using materials found in the local orchard. This hands-on experience will allow children to explore patterns, textures, and shapes in the great outdoors.
This half term in Science, we’ll be learning all about the five senses and how they help us explore the world around us. We’ll be labelling the parts of the human body, and learning about how to keep our bodies healthy and clean through good hygiene, diet, and exercise.
We’re looking forward to a half term packed with creativity, curiosity, and community exploration!
Mrs Jeffers 04.06.25
Good afternoon, I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas break, you are well rested and ready to start a fantastic new year. This half term our school value will be 'innovate' and our enquiry question will be 'How did the plague come about and what happened?'. In Maths we will be focusing on money and multiplication & division. In English our learning will be focused around the story 'The Day the Crayons Quit'. Please see below some pictures of our wonderful Autumn half term.
- Mrs Jeffers 04.01.24
Cherry Class
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04.01.25
What a brilliant start to the new academic year, it has been so nice getting to know the children and getting stuck straight into the learning. Our learning this half term is around 'Who were the greatest explorers?' We have learnt about Captain James Cook, Amelia Earhart and Neil Armstrong. The children have been enthralled with their learning. The children particularly loved our rocket launch and presenting BBC news for space week, all about Neil Armstrong (can you believe it?)
Highlights...
In English, we have wrote our own poetry based around the story 'we're going on a Bear hunt', we had 'we're going on an orca hunt'... some of these absolutley blew me away!
We have moved on to the story 'The man on the moon'. First we made a predicition about a picture within the story, using the illustrations to make our predictions. We were then shocked to find Bob had written us a post card, how exciting! Then.... we had an alien visit to school!!! We were absolutley flabbergasted, he brought moon cake and we saw live footage of the spaceship landing in our school. We have made wanted posters to try and find the alien.
In maths we have been looking at place value and addition and subtraction, the children are working hard and really enjoying our super six activities that were launched in September.
In science we have been learning about things that are alive, once alive and never been alive and looking at different habitats. We are now learning about food chains. Children are now confident with saying what a herbivore, carnivore and omnivore is.
We are excited to continue our learning this half term and I cannot wait to see what we acheive.
Mrs Jeffers- 10.09.24
Mrs Jeffers
