Welcome To Cherry Class 2025-2026
All About Us....
Hello and Welcome to our Cherry Class webpage. We are a wonderful class of year 2 children. We hope you enjoy looking at our webpage and finding out about the things we have been learning over the year.
The Adults in Our Class Are...
Mrs. Evans is our class teacher and Miss. Hindle and Miss. Pickles are our teaching assistants.
If you have any questions please feel free to pop and see us at the classroom door or leave a message with the office and we will get back to you as soon as we can. Thank you.
Topic Homework
Each half term, a topic homework grid is sent out within each key stage. You can also view an online version from this webpage. Please support your child by helping them complete some of the fun activities. They can bring in photographs or models to school to show us in class. You could also email the office with any photographs and we will look at them in class. All children will be awarded with house points and raffle tickets. Have fun!
Home Learning
Lots of our weekly homework will need to be completed online. We will support children who are unable to access this at home. Your child will have a copy of their login details in the front of their reading diary. If you are unsure about any of these, please pop in for a chat.
Maths
- TT Rockstars (Year 2) Times Tables Rock Stars: Play (ttrockstars.com)
- Numbots (Maths Year 1 and 2) NumBots | Motivational maths practice for schools and families.
Reading
In Cherry class, we love to read! Please support your child by helping them to bring their reading book and diary every single day. All children will have a lovely bookmark which has some questions which you could ask your child, This encourages them to gain confidence with comprehension and retrieval. Books will be checked and changed on Mondays and Fridays (if your child has finished their book and needs it changing, please encourage them to let us know).
Your child will also have a 'Reading Trail' in the front of their diary. Certificates and rewards are given for completed reading trails. Please have a go at the different challenges. The local libraries have lots of books which your child can borrow for free and they often hold their own reading challenges for children as well. We also have lots of lovely books in school which your child is welcome to borrow.
Every time your child reads at home they will be awarded with raffle tickets and entered into our weekly raffle prize draw!
Waterfoot Primary School Badge Scheme- Your children are able to choose a badge project to take part in at any point during the year. The badge information is available near our school office. Children can complete and take part in as many badges as they wish. There are a variety of badges linked with many different themes. Have fun!
Extra links:
Here are some links to online learning platforms which you might like to use at home to help support your child's learning, some of which we use in class:
Maths: Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)
English and Maths activities: ictgames || Teaching Tools: Tools for teaching
Phonics/ Spelling: Letters and Sounds, English Games for 5-7 Years - Topmarks
Mixed: Bitesize primary games - BBC Bitesize
Read, Write, Rap: Zog 🐲 | MC Grammar 🎤 | Educational Rap Songs for Kids 🎵 (youtube.com
PE Days
Please make sure your child comes to school wearing their active uniform on our PE days. Refer to the Uniform Policy if you are unsure.
Tuesday: Outdoor PE. During colder weather, your child will be able to wear a coat, hat/ scarf/ gloves.
Wednesday: Indoor PE
It is very important that your child is able to dress themselves and fasten their own shoes/ shoe laces and coats. Please encourage your child to become independent and support them as they master these essential life skills.
You must make sure that clothes, coats and all footwear has your child's name inside.
Thank you. 
Routines
Please encourage your children to come into school independently. Children are awarded house points, raffle tickets and stickers for showing independence.
Mornings in Key Stage 1- Year 2 Spelling, English and Maths.
Monday:
- 'My Happy Mind' class assembly 
- Cherry Class Show and Tell: 2 children will be selected each week to fill a special bag with things that tell us all about them. The children will then share this with everyone.
- Numbots/ TT Rockstars Awards
Wednesday: Computing
Friday: Whole school celebration assembly. Cherry Class raffle prize draw and awards.
Rewards in Cherry Class
Recognition Board- In class children work hard to get on the class recognition board. Each week the children agree on a class target which links with our school values.
Respect, Responsibility and Be Ready!
House Points- Your child will be in one of our wonderful House Point teams (Badger, Heron, Deer or Fox). Each weeek a house point team will be awarded the whole school trophy in assembly and a class winner will also be chosen from the class house point chart. They will be able to wear a badge for the following week (please return by Friday at the end of the week).
Reading Raffle- Raffle tickets will be drawn on Fridays. Children earn raffle tickets by reading at home and by bringing their reading book to school every day!
Star of the Week- Cherry class celebrate the star of the week by singing a fab song and sitting in a circle to recognise wonderful things about our weekly star! Every child who recieves star of the week also is rewarded with a Cherry class medal.
Cherry Class Kindness Award- One child is awarded with a medal and recognition for kindness from the previous week.
Numbots/ TT Rockstars- Certificates will be awarded weekly during a mini class award ceremony.
Autumn Term 1 🧡
The year 2's have made a great start to the term. They are trying hard to show respect for each other and their new Cherry class friends, they are trying hard to show good focus by listening carefully and they are showing responsibility towards the younger children in KS1.
Amazing Autumn 🎃
We have been exploring our school woodland area and spotting signs of Autumn.
L.S Lowry Art
We have been learning about the artist L.S. Lowry. We have sketched buildings from his artwork and our own buildings around school and Waterfoot. Look at some of our amazing work...
World Mental Health Day- Hello Yellow! 💛
Everyone looked so bright and cheerful dressed all in yellow! Thank you for helping us to raise money for the charity Young Minds. We took part in some happy breathing and we read a story called 'Ruby's Worry.' We talked about the things which make us feel worried or stressed, then we talked about how to help ourselves feel better and what we can do to make our worries smaller. In the afternoon we did a yellow treasure hunt around school and we collected natural yellow things in our woodland area, which we used to make 4 giant yellow sunshines. We finished the day with some songs and dances which we love!
Year 2 Fire Safety Talk
Today we were visited by Lancashire Fire Brigade. They talked to us about how to be safe in our homes and how to make a fire plan so that we could get out safely if there was a fire. Everyone listened carefully and took leaflets home to share with their family.
Toys and Games from the past
This term we have been learning about toys and games from the past. Alex brought in some wonderful wooden toys which had been made by his grandad, Fraser brought in some fantastic mechanical toys which were really cool and Penny brought in an old electronic game. In PE we have been learning games which children used to play in the past, such as Hospital Tig, Line Tig and different Hopscotch games.
Construction Time
During independent learning time. Cherry class love using their imaginations to create wonderful buildings and constructions. Here are a few for you to see....
