Welcome to Cherry Class

Teacher: Mrs Waters
Teaching Assistant: Miss Cobden

Autumn Topics

Expressive Art and Design (Art): Drawing: Marvellous marks

Exploring mark making through different drawing materials. Beginning to draw from observation using faces and self-portraits as a stimulus.

Expressive Art and Design (D&T): Structures: Junk modelling

In this unit, pupils explore and learn about various types of permanent and temporary join. They are encouraged to tinker using a combination of materials and joining techniques in the junk modelling area.

Expressive Arts and Design (Music) Celebration Music: Diwali music

Children learn about the festival of Diwali and respond to music through movement

PSED: Building relationships: Self-regulation: My Feelings

In this unit, children are learning to explore and understand their feelings, identify when they may be feeling something, and begin learning how to communicate and cope with their feelings and emotions.

PSED: Building relationships: Building relationships: Special relationships

In this unit, children are learning to explore why families and special people are valuable, understand why it is important to share and develop strategies, see themselves as valuable individual and explore diversity through thinking about similarities and differences.

PSED: Managing self: My wellbeing

Learning how to look after their wellbeing through exercise, meditation, a balanced diet and care for themselves.

Communication & Language (Computing): Programming 1: All about Instructions

The children learn to receive and give instructions and understand the importance of precise instructions

Understanding the World (Science): Changing Seasons

A unit to be taught across the year, observing how the natural world transforms through the year and recognising how these changes affect the weather, plants and animals. This term we are focusing on Autumn.

Understanding the World (Geography): Exploring Maps

Exploring maps through discussion, story-telling, games and creative activity. 

Understanding the World (History): Peek into the Past

Opportunities for the children to reflect on memories and experiences from their own past and comment on images of familiar situations in the past.

Talk Through Stories

^{Talk through stories grows children's spoken vocabulary by drawing on the best of children's literature. It is designed to extend and deepen children’s vocabulary so that they can understand the books they will soon be able to read for themselves.} 

^{Each week we will be reading a different story and learning new vocabulary.}

Our Autumn Term books:

Useful Information

PE is on Wednesday. Please ensure your child wears their named, correct PE kit to school on this day, that earrings are not worn or taped and long hair is tied up.

The children have access to their water bottles in the classroom at all times during the day. Please ensure that your child has a named water bottle in school which is taken home regularly to be washed.

Your child is welcome to bring in a snack of fruit or vegetables each day.