Cherry Tree Class 2026-27

Welcome to Term 2!

Welcome back children and families! We have so many exciting plans in the weeks ahead! Autumn is one of our favourite terms as we lead up to the excitement of Christmas! As term 1,  I will also be sharing the class with Mrs Barton and Mrs Jones on the afternoons to help with the continued transition to Year 1.

Teacher Timetable:

Monday to Thursday mornings - Mrs Morton

Monday & Tuesday afternoons - Mrs Barton

Wednesday and Thursday afternoons - Mrs Jones

All day Friday - Mrs Jones

The theme for our learning this term is ‘Let's Remember’ and we will be asking ourselves 'Why is it important to remember?' For the first two weeks in History we will be focussing on Remembrance Day and finding out about the significance of the poppy.

In Science we will be learning about Seasons and we are looking forward to some real hands on experience of seasonal change through our weekly sessions at Forest School in November, before our break until the Spring.

In RE, we will be thinking about Christmas and gaining a deeper understanding of the Christmas Story through our Nativity play. We will try and answer the question ‘Why do Christians perform nativity plays at Christmas?’

In PSHE we will be thinking about ‘building relationships’ and ‘special relationships’ and we will also focus on being EPIC by demonstrating 'reflectiveness’ and 'honesty'. In art, we will be asking ourselves ‘how can we transform materials into sculptures?’ and will have a go at designing and making a simple bird sculpture.

Our PE sessions for the Term 2 will be on a Tuesday throughout November and then, once Forest School has finished, we will also have an additional PE session on a Wednesday as well. This term our focus will be dance.

In Literacy we will be reading the story 'Rapunzel' by Bethan Woollvin and using this as a basis for all our learning. In addition, the children have a daily phonics session where we focus on learning sounds, reading and writing. We will continue to read and write words containing all Set 1, 2 and 3 sounds (including reading 'alien' or nonsense words).

In Maths we will continue to deepen our understanding of numbers to 10 including recall of number bonds odd, even and doubles. We will keep counting, reading and writing our numbers up to 10 in numbers and words as well as looking at part whole models and using the symbols for greater / less than and equals. Please remember to keep using our Numbots App too!

Each day, children need a named water bottle in school (containing just water please) and a healthy snack if they wish to have one at break time. We recommend a piece of fruit, chopped vegetables, yoghurt, cheese, smoothie etc. As the weather gets cooler please also send in named hats, gloves and scarves as we do go outside whatever the weather! 

For more detail on the rest of our learning, please see our termly plan and knowledge organisers below.

  As always, please get in touch via Class Dojo if you have any queries.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Morton