Cherry Class - Year 1 & Year 2 2025 - 2026

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Welcome to Cherry Class Year 1 and Year 2

Here are our key adults:

• Mrs Crook – Class Teacher (Monday-Thursday)
• Miss Speakman- Class Teacher (Thursday and Friday)

Spring 1

What are we reading in Cherry Class?

English

Our focus text for Pathways to Write will be The Dragon Machine. 

Maths
We follow ‘Oak Academy Maths’ daily and continue to become super mathematicians. 

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 Everyday Materials. We will learn the names of different materials of objects all around us (wood, plastic, glass, metal, water and rock). We will discuss how materials can be described (rough, smooth, waterproof, absorbent, transparent, opaque etc). 

Wider Curriculum

Our Art and Design topic this half term is 'Painting and Mixed Media: Colour Splash'.

In History the children will explore the question 'How was school different in the past?'.

Computing will be a unit on 'digital writing'.

Music will be learnig about orchestral instruments.

RE we will discuss the question 'What do Hindus believe about God?'

PE 

PE is on Tuesday and Friday. Please come to school dressed in full PE kit on these days. Tuesday will be gymnastics and the chidlren will explore different pathways. Friday will be a focus on fundamental movement skills. 

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  and will be 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.