Welcome to the Fantastic Finches

Welcome to the Finches Class page. Our teacher is Mrs Tickner and we have three T.As working across both classes in year 2: Mrs Payne, Mrs Medland and Mrs Ward.

This term we will:

Continue to look at fiction and non- fiction writing. In our writing sessions, we will learn about how to join sentences in different ways, sentence types including the correct use of punctuation. We will be writing a story including imaginative creatures and we will be writing information texts linked to our science learning about animals.

In Maths, we will learn about place value, addition and subtraction.

During our Computing lessons, we will be learning how to stay safe on the internet.

In Music, we will be developing our singing skills and continue to use glockenspiels to perform a song.

In DT, we will learn about how to make a bookmark using sewing skills.

During Geography lessons, we will be learning about continents and oceans and comparing Europe to Africa.

In History lessons, we will study the historical event of The Great Fire of London.

The children will learn about different drawing skills in this half term’s art lessons.

In Science, we will learn about living things and their habitats.

During Jigsaw (PSHE), we will focus on thinking about Dreams and Goals for the first half of the term.

In Religious Education lessons, we will learn about Christianity this half term and we will focus on the Christmas story in the second half of the term.

PE will take place on a Tuesday and Thursday for both classes. Children need to come into school in their PE kit on PE days. In addition to this, the children will have the opportunity to take part in Wild Tribe termly.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Mrs Clift and Mrs Westrope

Mrs Tickner