Welcome to Cherry Class 2025/2026

Macbeth

This week we’ve been diving into Macbeth ⚔️✨, starting right at the beginning with the mysterious witches 🧙‍♀️. The class threw themselves into some fantastic drama activities, experimenting with spooky voices, dramatic movements and eerie staging to bring the opening scene to life. The atmosphere in the room was brilliant – dark, tense and full of energy! 🌩️

We also met Macbeth himself for the very first time 👑 and explored what Shakespeare tells us about him in Act 1. Alongside the drama, pupils created some amazing descriptive writing ✍️, capturing the stormy, unsettling world of the play. The writing was packed with atmosphere, imagination and plenty of spooky detail – a great start to our Macbeth project! 🎭

Take One Picture - Yayoi Kusama

This term, Year 6 have been exploring the amazing world of artist Yayoi Kusama 🎨✨. We learnt about her love of dots 🔴, pumpkins 🎃 and her famous Infinity Rooms 🌌. The children created their own Kusama-inspired artwork 🖌️, including colourful patterned pumpkins and imaginative “infinity” designs. We also wrote descriptive poems 📝, researched her life 📚, and reflected on how art can support our wellbeing 💛

This week our class got really hands-on with a fun autumn art project! 🎃 We started by shaping our own clay pumpkins, each one turning out a little different and full of character. Once they were dry, we gave them a coat of white paint to make a fresh background. 🖌️ After that, we took inspiration from the artist Yayoi Kusama and added bold colours and lots of bright dots. 🔴⚪ The children loved experimenting with their designs, and the finished pumpkins look amazing – a perfect mix of autumn creativity and Kusama’s playful style. 🍂✨

Cherry class has been busy learning how to write non-chronological reports, and we used the life of Yayoi Kusama as our focus. 📚✨ The children researched different aspects of her life and work, from her childhood in Japan to her famous dotted pumpkins and immersive art installations. 🎨🔴⚪ Cherry enjoyed discovering fascinating facts about Kusama and presenting them in their own words. It was a brilliant way to practise report writing while learning about an inspiring artist! 🌟

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