Welcome to Cherry Class, Year 2.

Teaching team

Teacher: Miss Sarah Moll

Teaching team: Mrs Elin Mardell, Mrs Victoria Cooper and Miss Kayleigh Skeels.

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.

Autumn Term

This term we will work hard to secure and embed our phonics skills and apply them in reading and writing. we will be establishing our new class community, and learning about topics including how Penguins are adapted to their environment, writing instructions and creating self portraits. See our newsletter for more details!

Key Dates

13/9/24 Roald Dahl Day - wear yellow.

18/9/24 Sport for Schools launch event.

20/9/24 Meet the Teacher - parents and carers are invited in at 8.30 a.m.

25/9/24 School photographer in.

30/9/24 You are Invited - parents and carers are invited to drop into class at 8.30 a.m.

3/10/24 Harvest Festival - donations are welcome.

10/10/24 Word Mental Health Day.

24/10/24 Black History Sharing - parents and carers are invited in at 2.30 p.m.

Home learning and how to help at home

The children will be reissued log in details for Boom Reader, Letterjoin and Numbots/Times Table Rockstars which will be 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.