

ST THOMAS
CE PRIMARY SCHOOL
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YEAr 2
Welcome to Year 2's Learning Page
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MEET THE TEAM
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Miss Madigan- Class teacher
Mrs McGregor - Class teacher
Miss Cherelle - Special needs assistant
Mrs Mulla- Teaching 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 McGregor and the rest of the Year 2 team.
Our Topic this half term is continuing:
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.


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