Year 2

Welcome to Year 2's Learning Page

MEET THE TEAM

Miss Madigan- Class teacher

Mrs McGregor - Class teacher

Mrs Sloan- Class teacher

Mrs Yaqoob- Special needs assistant

Mrs Blanchard- Special needs assistant

Dear Parents / Carers and Year 2 children,

We hope you all had an enjoyable summer holiday and managed to have lots of fun and family time. As a team we are really looking forward to welcoming you back, with lots of fun and learning along the way.

Please feel free to come and speak with us with any questions, suggestions or concerns- we are always willing to listen and help in any way we can.

All the best,

Miss Madigan, Mrs McGregor, Mrs Sloan and the rest of the Year 2 team.

Our Topic this half term is continuing:

Movers and Shakers

Geography

This project teaches children about the world including continents, oceans and the UK and its capital cities.

This project teaches children about remarkable recipes involving food technology. We will be learning about the different kitchen utensils we have and what we use them for.

Science

This project teaches children about human survival and we will learn about health, hygiene, nutrition and what we need to survive.

Our PE days will be on Wednesday and Thursday we will be working with the children on the skills: agility, balance coordination, which will provide them with the opportunity to develop key fundamental movement skills. Please make sure your child comes to school in the correct school PE kit every Wednesday and Thursday.

RSHE

In RSHE this half term we will be discussing Relationships, learning about what makes a good friend, what bullying is and what to do if this happens, safe and unsafe secrets and what is the same and different about us.

Maths

In our Maths lessons we will start with place value- thinking about numbers to 20/50 and then 100. We will then move on to 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 non chronological report about Huddersfield.

Phonics

In Phonics we will continue with Essential Letters and Sounds. We will focus on phase 5 learning the alternative spellings. Reading books will be sent home on a Friday, as this links into our phonics scheme. Your child will have a book to read over the week, our phonics scheme recommends the book is read four times over the week, this is to help with fluency and expression. Please return reading books and bookmarks every Thursday as these will changed within the phonics lesson on Friday.

History

This project which teaches children about significant people. We are beginning with learning about Huddersfield and the impact the Ramsden family have had on our town centre.

Art

This project teaches children about colour mixing and still life. It includes recapping of the primary and secondary colours and how artists use colour in their artwork.

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. The log in details will be sent home ASAP. 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

Download all the Charters as a PDF file

Here is your Year 2 Class Charter challenge sheet. You can also download a copy by clicking on the image.