Have a look at some of the fun activities we get up to in Team Cherry
Art Topic – Making Birds
Team Cherry have really enjoyed this art topic continuing to develop their understanding of sculpture and observational drawing.
P.E. – Running Relay
Lots of fun in P.E practising running a relay!
Visiting Auckland Castle
Team Cherry enjoyed a great day out at Auckland Palace!
We started the day by visiting the Faith Museum, hearing the Buddhist story of The Bodhi Tree and investigating & handling religious artefacts.
We enjoyed a picnic lunch in the sunshine before spending the afternoon exploring the castle on a scavenger hunt, identifying different Bishops from the past.
We ended the day with some Knight training.
What a super day! 😊
Visit to Beamish Museum
Team Cherry enjoyed a fantastic day at Beamish Museum in the sunshine! ☀️
We started with a lesson in the Victorian school, practising our reading, writing & arithmetic with a very strict teacher!
We enjoyed exploring the 1900s Pit Village before taking the open top vintage bus to the 1950s town. We loved trying a choc ice from the Milk Bar and looking at the toys from the past.
We couldn’t resist sneaking into the traditional fish shop to share a few cones of chips! 😋
We ended our day playing in the 1950s play area before another vintage bus brought us to our coach.
Team Cherry have been an absolute credit to our school with outstanding behaviour and lovely manners throughout the day.
What a wonderful day we had! 😊
Art – Making Birds
This term our new art topic is Making Birds.
We looked carefully at photos and films of birds to take in details and shapes, and then made drawings of we noticed. 😁✏️
D & T – Fruity Desserts
We have had a great afternoon in Team Cherry making (and eating!) our fruit desserts.
We were super sensible using the bridge technique to ensure we cut up our fruits safely.
What wonderful fruity creations!
Mental Health Awareness
Looking gorgeous in green to raise awareness for mental health 💚
VE Day Celebrations
Workshop with Esh Construction
We enjoyed a great workshop from ‘Esh Construction’ showcasing links between the curriculum and careers in construction. 👷🏽👷🏽♀️🏗️
P.E.
Lovely to get out into the sunshine for P.E at last! 😊
Maths Café
A big thank you for your continued support at our Maths Café – the children loved it and it was great to see so many happy faces!
Science – Microhabitats
In science we have been exploring microhabitats in the forest school garden.
We observed the microhabitats closely. The children were very excited to find a variety of minibeasts.🐞🐛🕷️
Reading Cafe
What a fun morning at the Team Cherry Reading Cafe!
Thank you to parents/carers who were able to join us 😊
Big Walk & Wheel
A super start to the Big Walk & Wheel in Team Cherry! 😀
The competition is running for the next two weeks and the more children who bike, scoot, walk or wheel to school, the better chance we have of topping the leader board. Well done, Team Cherry! ⭐️
P.E. – Handball
We had lots of fun in Dance to trying out different styles of dance to music. We enjoyed practising our dance moves and putting three or moves together to start a sequence.
Our P.E homework is to listen to lots of music and help us choose a song for this year’s Team Cherry Dance! 😀
Fun in P.E practising skills needed to play Handball 😀
Book in a Box – World Book Day
Phenomenal effort in Team Cherry to create books in a box. A huge well done to everyone! 😀⭐️
World Book Day
Looking amazing in Team Cherry for World Book Day 😀📚
World Book Day – Stories by the Campfire
Having a great time having s’mores and listening to stories by the campfire🔥
Science – Habitats
We had a great time exploring our school grounds to look for plants and animals that live there. 🐜🌾🌿🌳
Look at Our Fabulous Homework
Look at our fantastic display to show off all of the wonderful homework Team Cherry have completed recently 😀⭐️
P.E. – Gymnastics Showcase
Team Cherry have enjoyed showcasing their gymnastics routines after working really hard to develop their sequences throughout the term. Top teamwork and outstanding examples of tucks, rolls & balances!
Well done, Team Cherry! Be proud! 😀⭐️
My Happy Mind
Team Cherry have loved starting the My Happy Mind programme this term. We’ve learned all about our brains and what the different parts (hippocampus, amygdala & prefrontal cortex) are in charge of.
We found out that when we are feeling sad or upset, our amygdala takes over and can make us feel big emotions like anger and sadness. We’ve learned ways to help to wake up the other parts of our brain to help us cope when we feel this way. We especially loved Happy Breathing!
Valentine’s Celebrations!
Very excited to party the afternoon away 😀💕
Wow Homework!
WOW! Just a small selection of some of the outstanding homework projects completed all about Mary Anning.
Well done, Team Cherry! 😀⭐️
D & T – Freestanding Structures
In D&T we’ve been observing examples of freestanding structures to name the parts using correct vocabulary. Can you guess which iconic structure we have been sketching?
Top teamwork in Team Cherry as we work together to build freestanding structures using recycled materials 😀
Very proud of our final products and having lots of fun testing their strength & stability by seeing how many toy cars they can hold!
A super range of structures including beam, truss, arch & cantilever bridges 😀
English – Performing Poetry
Working in groups to create performances of dinosaur poems from our core text. Some very dramatic reading going on! 😀🦖
Vocabulary Skills
Working hard in English improving our vocabulary skills by making a glossary of key words from our core text, ‘A First Book of Dinosaur’ by Simon Mole.
There’s some very tricky vocabulary in the text so we are very pleased to have some dinosaur experts in class!
English – A First Book of Dinosaurs (Core Text)
We are really enjoying our new core text in English! We’ve started ‘A First Book of Dinosaurs’ which is non-fiction poetry anthology.
We have had great fun drawing & describing a stegosaurus 🦖
P.E. – Gymnastics
Working hard in P.E developing balance & co-ordination by practising a range of balance shapes such as star, dish, tuck & arch.
We had fun creating a short sequence linking together the gymnastic shapes we practised throughout the lesson. 😀
We are always BUSY BEES in Team Cherry
Busy bees in Team Cherry!
Merry Christmas from Team Cherry
We’ve had a magical time in Team Cherry with lots of festive fun. A little extra magic was sprinkled when Santa Claus came to visit us all the way from the North Pole!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Merry Christmas!
That’s a Wrap!
That’s a wrap! We had so much fun filming the dvd of our nativity.
We can’t wait for you to see the first live show! 😀⭐️
Christmas Journey
Team Cherry enjoyed a lovely festive morning at St Andrew’s church for the Christmas Journey. We loved meeting all of the characters from the Christmas story, especially trying Mary’s freshly baked bread & exploring the posh palace of the wise men.
The children made us so proud with their brilliant listening skills and lovely manners – what super ambassadors for our school! ⭐️
The members of the church were very impressed when Team Cherry sang & signed Last Christmas for them.
Chartwell’s Workshop – Healthy Eating
We enjoyed a fun Friday morning with Sian from Chartwell’s who taught us all about healthy eating and why this is important for our bodies.
We loved making our own Very Hungry Caterpillars with fruit & veg – especially eating them! 😀
Dress Rehearsal
An exciting afternoon performing our nativity for our friends in Key Stage 2
Sneak Peek
Sneak peek of our KS1 nativity! 😀
English – Writing Fact Files
We started our new core text ‘One Day on our Blue Planet’ in English and have enjoyed researching lions and the African savannah.
We worked hard to put all of our research together to write lion fact files 😀
Children In Need
oking amazing in our spots & pyjamas to raise awareness for Children in Need 🙂 We also had a special visitor who came to visit!
Art – Watercolour Shells
Continuing our Spirals topic in art we created some watercolour shells 😀
Art – Spirals
Our topic in art this term is Spirals.
The children were introduced to the idea that making a drawing is a physical activity which uses the whole body and connects head, hand and heart.
We worked hard drawing snail spirals using a continuous line for a minute or two. The children used chalk, oil pastels and felt tips. We explored different qualities of line and colour blending. 🖌⭐️
Halloween Disco
Looking spook-tacular and ready to party 😀👻
Beamish Workshop
We enjoyed a fascinating workshop with Hannah & Bill from Beamish Museum all about the mining history of our village and what life would have been like for the miners who lived here in the past. We loved testing out the tin bath and singing the pit songs! 😊
Victorian Day
A fun day in Team Cherry celebrating 150 years of Stanley Crook Primary School 😀
Maths
Working hard in Maths using language such as fewer, greater, less, more & equal to compare amounts.
Music – Rocksteady
We enjoyed an amazing band session with Will from Rocksteady Partners.
This session amplified children’s self belief, support, wellbeing and helped to maximise potential back in the classroom.
The children learnt to play instruments and sing songs in a dynamic way. It was a fantastic experience for everyone. 🎶🎵🎸🎤🎹
P.E.
Having fun in P.E building fitness, balance, control & coordination.
English
Working hard in English writing descriptive poems based on our core text, ‘The Fox and the Star’ ⭐️
Have a look at some of our amazing writing! ⭐️
Maths
Year 2 have been working super hard in Mathematics to flexibly partition numbers to 100 ⭐️ Look at all the different ways we could answer our challenge question!
Phonics
We have been busy bees in phonics!
SCHOOL COUNCILLORS
Our School Councillors as elected by their peers during a very exciting, top secret vote.
Team Cherry
We enjoyed a fantastic, fun first day in our new team! A big well done to all children – they have settled in brilliantly.
