Welcome to Year 2

St Thomas Class 

Learning and serving together in the light of God's love

St Thomas the apostle is our class saint. He was a great friend of Jesus and helped to  spread Christianity throughout the world,  especially in southern India.

 Class Teachers : Mrs Ayliffe 

Class Learning Support: Mrs Lock & Miss Bryden

Useful information

Weekly Spellings are provided each Friday, applied in spelling lessons and tested the following Friday. Your child has a login they can use to practice their spellings on the following website: Spelling Shed - Spelling Shed - The Science of Spelling

P.E kits should be in school at all times, our allocated sessions are on  Mondays and Thursdays.

Electronic books are provided for each child and accessible through the following link using your child's personal login details: https://ops.collinsopenpage.com/sso/login?service=https%3A//ebooks.collinsopenpage.com/wr/index.html&eulogin=true

Please read daily with your child and return reading records to school.

Library Books are changed on a Friday. We are currently enjoying reading Roald Dahl stories.

Important dates:

Thursday 7th March - World Book Day - children can bring in £1 for our Lenten fundraising, dress up in pyjamas and bring in their favourite  bedtime story. 

Friday 15th March - Our Class Assembly at 9.15am. Please join us if you can.

Tuesday 19th March - St Joseph's Day - Mass at 9.30am  and Easter Egg Raffle.

19th and 21st March - Parents' Evening. Appointments can be booked online.  See newsletter.

Monday 25th March - End of Term Mass at 9:30am parents are welcome to  attend.

World Maths Day.

Thursday 28th March - break up for the Easter holidays.

Curriculum (Spring 2)

English

Our English books this half term focus on London. We are reading Katie in London, and doing lots of super writing with correct letter formation and sentence punctuation. 

Maths

This half term we are focusing on 2 times tables and related facts, length and height and mass and volume. 

Science

This half term we are studying materials. We will learn what things are made of, properties of different materials. We will do an experiment to test which materials are suitable to protect an egg from breaking and what material would be best to make a house from. 

History

We are learning about the history of the Great Fire of London. We will learn about how it happened, why and what we learnt from the Great Fire of London which shaped the way houses are built today. 

R.E

This half term we are focusing on learning about Lent, the Mass and the Easter story. 

PSHCE- Jigsaw

Our topic this half term is Healthy Me. We are thinking about how to keep healthy, discussing diet, exercise, keeping clean and sleeping. 

Art

We are using paper to make 3D artwork pieces. We will be doing lots of bending rolling and sticking to create these pieces, as well as collaborating on a huge class project to make a sculpture of a giant spider. 

P.E

This term we have a sports coach in on Mondays for team games and in our other PE lesson we will be focusing on creating dance.

Music

In our music lessons this half term we will focus on finding the beat in music and songs as well as learning some new songs to sing.