CHERRY CLASS

Welcome to the

Cherry Class Page

From January, Cherry will be taught by:

Miss Townly, Miss Hawker, Mrs Wendt, Mrs Daisley

and Mrs Nwaeke. 

In Cherry Class we live through the school values of Grace, Courage and Friendship. We support each other to do the best learning we can. 

Class Notices:

SUPER SIX: Please could you help your child to make sure they have the essential items at school: writing pen, pencil, rubber, ruler, pencil sharpener & glue stick. 

P.E.: Cherry Class have PE on Monday and Thursday. The children will need to wear their PE kits to school - not their school uniform. They will remain to their PE kits all day. Please still ensure that all items are labelled. This term, Cherry Class will have Forest schools on a Thursday. Please send children to school in their PE kits, including trousers. They will also need a warm/waterproof coat, a bag with named wellington boots and on particularly cold weeks, a hat and gloves as well. 

Homework: Maths and Spelling homework are both set on Thursdays, to be returned by the following Thursday. It is expected that children read at least 5 x per week at home. They will give in their reading records on a Thursday and receive a house point if they have had 5 signatures in their reading record. Children may read independently, but we encourage parents to listen to them read aloud and discuss the text as often as possible. 

Spellings will be set every week and each child will bring a copy of their spellings home with them. The spellings will also be put on Teams along with the homework, for your convenience. 

Spellings - 23.3.23

Dolphins                         Sharks                            Whales                             Jellyfish                                 

food                             television                    chef                               though

pool                             treasure                      chalet                             although

moon                           usual                           machine                         dough

soon                            division                        brochure                        through

zoo                              vision                           crochet                          breakthrough

book                            pleasure                       ricochet                         thought

took                             measure                      parachute                      bought

foot                              occasion                      moustache                    brought

wood                            usually                        champagne                    fought

good                             leisure                         chute                             ought

There may be some individualised spellings included following each spelling test.

Useful Dates for your Diary:

Wednesday 4th January - INSET day

Thursday 5th January - Pupils back to school

Thursday 19th January - Maths training for parents

Thursday 2nd February - Synagogue Visit Year 3 & 4

Friday 3rd February - Hawthorn Cake Sale

Wednesday 8th February - Big Pig Trip Year 3 & 4 TBC

Friday 10th February - INSET day

Monday 13th February - Friday 17th February - Half Term

Thursday 2nd March - World Book Day

Friday 3rd March - Hawthorn Collective Worship

Sunday 19th March - WASMA Choir Concert at the Hexagon

Monday 20th March - Friday 24th March - STEM Week

Tuesday 28th March & Thursday 30th March - Parents Evening

Friday 31st March - Last day of Spring term, 1:30pm finish

Book Week

Audio books can be found here www.worldbookday/world-of-stories/ 

Reading Gives You Wings!                

Read a book (or even two!) and review it on Our Reading Den: https://www.ourreadingden.com/

Not sure what to read next? Take a look at the ideas in the links below:

https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-3 

https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-4

Week ending 24.03.23

What an amazing week we had this week, celebrating all things STEM. On Monday we kicked off our week with an interhouse engineering competition, which involved each group having a different project to complete followed by the INCREDIBLE science fair. We were amazed by the different science investigation including an amazing example of the water cycle, making oxygen and testing memory and that was just from Cherry class! 

We were also treated to seeing Motorbikes and an amazing forensic workshop! It has been such a  fantastic week!

English

This week we have started to learn about kenning poems. We have learnt about the difference between verbs, nouns and adjectives and how they are important in Kenning poems. We have also had a go at writing our our Kenning Poems!

Maths

In year 3, we have continued learning about measurement. In year 4, we completed our learning about fractions. 

History and Geography

This term we are looking at the Anglo Saxons to the Vikings, exploring that through the concepts of Liberty, Justice and Legacy. We will look at how these settlements came to be and how it impacted Britain long-term.

PE

This term in PE we are looking at Tennis and Gymnastics.

DT

In DT this term we are working towards creating a slingshot car, looking at mechanisms involved.

Science

We are exploring Sound in science this term, looking at how we hear sounds, the parts of the ear and how volume and pitch work.

PSHE

In PSHE this term we are learning about Dreams and Goals, we will discuss differences and challenges that we may face as well as celebrating ourselves and our own dreams and goals. 

Below are some links to websites which you can use to supplement your learning at home. Most of them we also use in school. 

Useful learning apps for tablets

Spelling Shed

Mathletics

Nessy

If you have any more suggestions please let me know so that we can share them with other parents.