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

Dear Parents / Carers and Year 2 children,

We would like to welcome you back to school after the Spring bank holiday. As a team we are really looking forward to another exciting half term.

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

Our Topic this term is continuing with:

Magnificent Monarchs

History

This project teaches children about the English and British monarchy from AD 871 to the present day. Using timelines, information about royal palaces, portraits and other historical sources, they build up an understanding of the monarchs and then research six of the most significant sovereigns.

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.

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.

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

RSHE

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

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.

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.

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.

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.