Welcome to Cherry Class, Year 2.

Teaching team

Teacher: Miss Sarah Moll

Teaching team: Mrs Elin Mardell, Mr Elliott Hindley and Miss Kerryn Edwards.

Class email address: year2@obps.set.education

Welcome to Cherry Class, Year 2

Cherry Class: helping children blossom!

Our school has class names based on trees that grown in our own school grounds. Look out for cherry trees in the field...

Welcome to the Cherry Class page. We hope you find the information useful and informative.

Cherry Class is the Year 2 class at Old Buckenham Primary School. We take pride in the positive learning environment in Cherry Class and work hard to provide a supportive classroom where every child can thrive. We look to build on the knowledge and skills children have learnt in preceeding years and develop their understanding in our broad and balanced curriculum. We aim to help children blossom, personally and educationally, and to establish strong roots to build future learning on.

The 'Old Buck Way':

Embedded within our school ethos is our mantra: 'Ready, Respectful and Safe'. These three words are taught throughout all parts of our curriculum and are at the heart of our whole school approach and the core of our school rules. 

Our Values:

At Old Buckenham, we also have five core values which we teach our children explicitly throughout our curriculum. 

These values are:

Respect                 Honesty                Communication              Teamwork              Resilience

Each week, we explicitly celebrate and promote one of our values in assembly as well as talking about and finding ways to model, consider, show and value these character traits across the school day.  

Our Curriculum:

At Old Buckenham, we understand that questioning and speculation are key learning skills and they sit at the heart of many of our subjects. There is lots of time and space to discuss learning in class, alongside offering many practical experiences and visual examples and models to support thinking. 

We follow the national curriculum and use some schemes to support consistency and quality of delivery, tailoring lessons to fit the needs of our class.

In our writing lessons we use The Write Stuff by Jane Considine to guide our teaching. This combines experience days, sentence stacking days and a clear independent writing sequence to enable children to extend their writing and continually improve.

In Maths we use White Rose Maths as a starting point. This teaches Maths topics in blocks throughout the year. We cover: place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, shape, time, statistics, position and direction and measure.

Science: In science we aim to encourage children's sense of wonder and curiosity in the different strands of Science. We conduct experiments in all half terms and in every topic. Our topics are: Everyday materials, Living things, Habitats, Animals including humans and Plants.

Spring Term

Having made a great start to the year, we are working hard to show our improving writing skills and are enthusiastic about lessons. Children are increasingly beginning to use cursive handwriting in school. We are embeddingkey maths skills and concepts while explroing money and multiplication. RE and PHSE are both already setting us challenges to commit to, and we will have some great practical art and computing. See our newsletter for more details!

Key Dates

10/1 Non-Uniform Day Fundraiser- Zones of Regulation

13/1 @ 8.30 You are invited- parents can drop into class and see their children’s work

22/1 @ 2.30 Handwriting café for parents

23/1 Handwriting competition

29/1 Promoting Mental Health at Home- Parent Workshop

3/2 Walk to school week and Mental health awareness

3/2 Class trip to Science Museum* Y2 will not do You are invited on this morning.

7/2 NSPCC Number day -Fundraiser and Non-Uniform Day

11/2 Safer Internet Day

12/2 Random Acts of Kindness day

14/2 @ 2.30 Safer Internet sharing assembly

Home learning and how to help at home

The children have been issued log in details for Microsoft Teams, Boom Reader, Letterjoin and Numbots/Times Table Rockstars which are stuck inside their home work books.

We ask you to hear children read daily, and regularly play maths games or rehearse key maths facts (our online games will support this and count as homework). Practising spellings weekly will also really support children to be successful writers. We will also set topic homework which children can select from weekly, and complete in their homework books (alternately, any homework completed on a computer can be emailed to me).

Boom Reader online reading record https://teachers.goapps.app/

Letterjoin https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/log-in.html

Times Table Rockstars https://ttrockstars.com/

Numbots https://play.numbots.com/#/intro

Statutory Spellings for Key Stage 1 (Year 1 and Year 2) are listed below.