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Welcome to Cherry Class - Year R

Mrs Perry and Mrs Alexander are the teachers in this busy but friendly Reception class. Mrs Perry teaches all day Monday and Tuesday morning and on a Friday and Mrs Alexander teaches all day on a Wednesday and Thursday. We meet together for our planning time on Tuesday afternoons and Miss Hawkins and  Mrs Greenwood teach the class during this time. Miss Hawkins and  Mrs Hancock are our main class LSA's. 

 

Our topic this term is Pirates and Mermaids. In our number lessons we will do a bit of a money focus and learn to add using 1p pieces. We also learn about naughty Pirate Pete who can't share fairly, we teach the children how to fair share and learn to take away as pirates also steal treasure. In literacy we make a wanted poster to try and catch a pirate. We also create Pirate maps and write some clues to find our buried treasure. We will also be focusing on Mermaids and have found some lovely books to base our learning on for this, including Julia Donaldson's, 'The Singing Mermaid'. Hopefully we will be able to revisit story writing and plan and write a story about a pirate or mermaid and their adventures. 

 

We explore our topic themes during our Discovery Time with loads of great learning opportunities as well as more focused, teacher led activities. Hopefully the Cherries will be able to think of how they might be able to catch Pirate Pete. However, in Reception nothing is set in stone and we like to follow our children's interests, which can lead us into a lot of exciting learning opportunities as they take us in various directions that we haven't planned for. 

 

We like to make the most of our lovely setting here at St Martin's. We take regular Welly Walks up the lane opposite the school and find many things of interest to develop our understanding of the world there. This term we will focus on the Spring season and look at new life and growth. We learn about insects and flowers and the beauty in our natural world. We also use the Nature Area on a regular basis to enhance our learning. We are very lucky to have great facilities at our school and we love to cook in Acorn room and make lots of delicious treats during the year. This term we will make pirate biscuits. 

 

We bring our topics to life by going on lots of regular trips with the class. The children really enjoy these opportunities and learn a great deal from them. The farm and castle trip are particular favourites of theirs! This term we will also hopefully be invited to visit the baby lambs again. 

 

Parents are always encouraged and welcome to help us in our many class activities. We always value the support that is given to our children and we are looking forward to welcoming you into the class with us. 

 

 

You can access an overview of what we are learning this term by clicking on the link underneath .