Year 2

Welcome to Year 2's Learning Page

MEET THE TEAM

Miss Madigan

Class teacher

Mrs Dockery

Special needs assistant

Mrs Martin

Class teacher

Mrs Yaqoob

Special needs assistant

Dear Parents / Carers and Year 2 children,

We hope you all had an enjoyable October half term and managed to have lots of fun and family time. As a team we are really looking forward to another exciting half term in Year 2.

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, Miss Martin and the rest of the Year 2 team.

Our Topic this term is:

Movers and Shakers

Geography

Our topic this half term has a Geography focus - Let’s Explore The World. This project teaches children about atlases, maps and compass points. They will learn about the characteristics of the four countries of the United Kingdom and find out why there are hot, temperate and cold places around the world. They will also develop their fieldwork skills.

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. We will also discover why some foods are cooked and learn to read a simple recipe. The children choose and make a new school meal that fulfils specific design criteria. We will learn to chop, slice, mash and cook vegetables.

Science

Our Science topic this half term is Habitats where we will explore different habitats and what they need to provide.

For 2FM their PE days will be on a Wednesday and Thursday and for 2EM their PE days will be Tuesday and Thursday. We will be working with the children on the gymnastics skills of balancing and linking movements. This unit will focus on developing the children’s balance, coordination and body control. They will explore a range of balances at different levels and learn how to link movements together smoothly to create short gymnastics sequences.

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.

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.