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.

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

DT
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.

PE
PE for this half term will be on a Wednesday and Thursday for 2FM and Tuesday and
Thursday for 2EM. 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 on these days.

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