Magnificent Monarchs

 

 

 

 

 

Geography

This project teaches children about the physical and human features of coastal regions across the United Kingdom, including a detailed exploration of the coastal town of Whitby, in Yorkshire.

 

DT

This project teaches children about three types of mechanism: sliders, levers and linkages. They will make models of each mechanism before designing and making a greetings card with a moving part.

 

Science

This project teaches children about growth in animals by exploring the life cycles of some familiar animals. They build on learning about the survival of humans by identifying the basic needs of animals for survival, including food, water, air and shelter.

PE

The target, control, combine unit of PE has a focus on developing the children’s hand eye coordination and foot eye coordination skills linked to sending and receiving. The send, receive, return unit of PE builds on early fundamental skills of striking with hands and equipment. It also supports the development of catching, tacking, chasing and aiming.

 

RSHE

The RSHE curriculum will have a focus on recognising our feelings and emotions.

 

Maths

In our Maths lessons we are continuing to learn about addition and subtraction within 100.

 

English

In our English lessons we will be using our topic ‘Movers and Shakers’ to write a recount and a set of instructions.

 

Phonics

In Phonics we will continue our phonics scheme called Essential Letters and Sounds. We will focus on the alternative graphemes for phase 5 sounds. In. Please return reading books and bookmarks every Thursday as these will changed within the phonics lesson on Friday.

 

RE

The RE curriculum will have a focus on how symbols are used to welcome new life.

 

Computing

Children will initially recap their learning from the Year 1 ScratchJr unit. They will learn that sequences of commands have an outcome, and make predictions based on their learning. Children will then modify designs to create their own quiz questions in ScratchJr, and realise these designs in ScratchJr using blocks of code. Finally, they will evaluate their work and make improvements to their programming projects.

 

General

We will be using Seesaw as our online learning platform for homework as well as any wow moments we would like to share. We also ask that you, as parents, share things with us too. The children love to share their photos with the class. We like to use this site daily so please

check regularly for updates of your child’s learning. We usually send a text if there is something exciting to look at.

Please do feel free to say hello and get to know us and we look forward to getting to know yourself and your child over the next few weeks. 

 

Year2@stthomas.org.uk