Welcome to Nightingales
Teachers: Miss Thompson, Mrs Welsh and Mrs McDonald
Welcome to Nightingales!
Welcome to Nightingales! We want our classroom to be a happy, friendly place where children are encouraged to feel confident, cared for and excited about learning. In Nightingales, we love celebrating achievements, supporting one another and helping every child to do their very best. We look forward to sharing lots of wonderful learning experiences and making happy memories together throughout the year!
Year 2 Homework
Homework is set every Friday and should be completed and returned by the following Thursday. Year 2 children will complete activities from their CPG books, alternating weekly between Maths and English tasks.
Year 1 Homework
During the first term, Year 1 children will take part in a ‘Pick and Mix’ style homework programme. Each week, children can choose an activity they would like to complete. Homework will be given out on a Friday and should be returned by the following Thursday.
Spellings
A spelling overview will be sent home at the beginning of each half term, outlining all the spellings children will be learning. Children will also receive a weekly spelling list containing that week’s focus words. Regular practice at home will help children to become confident and successful spellers.
Reading
Children should read at home every day for a minimum of 10 to 15 minutes.
Daily reading is vital for developing children’s fluency, vocabulary and comprehension skills. We encourage families to make reading a regular and enjoyable part of their child’s daily routine.
PE
PE Day: Wednesday
This term, PE lessons will be taught by Mr Peden. Please ensure that children have the correct PE kit in school each week.
We appreciate your support and look forward to working together to help every child achieve their very best.
Resources:
Must Reads KS1 master copy
https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/2/Year-2
https://www.thereaderteacher.com/year2
Walking Water Investigation
During our first week back after the holidays the children have been set a couple of whole school science challenges. All children this week have thought about what science is to them and have either drawn pictures, written captions or short sentences to describe what...
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We’ve had a great week welcoming both familiar and new faces to Nightingales. Everyone has settled in quickly and we are so proud of each and every one of them. We've had a busy first week reminding ourselves of the routines and working hard in all of our subjects. We...
Hello Summer Happiness
A summer holiday workbook created to help empower you to manage your own happiness by developing your emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence means understanding your feelings and knowing how to handle them in a good way. It's like being a feelings detective...
Water Safety Day
Please click on the link below for further information or should you require a paper version then please just ask at reception: water safety day
Gateshead School Sports Awards
Last week, some of our children were lucky enough to attend the Gateshead School Sports Awards at The Fed. We had 2 individual award winners- Riley for Young Primary Achiever of the year and Emilia McDonald who was highly commended for Primary Young Sport Leader. Our...
Magical Maths in Nightingales
This week, Nightingales and Bees have been practising their addition skills by playing different maths games. We have had to use our understanding of place value as well as our addition, applying our problem solving and strategic thinking to try to score points...
Year 2 Homework 28.6.24
English Homework - conjunction sheet Remember to practise reading. Maths Homework – Symmetry sheet TT Rockstars- in their Maths homework book. Homework needs to be in by Wednesday 3.7.24 Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and...
Windy Winners!
A huge well do to all of our winners this week. Top Sportsperson and our monthly value: Top Friendship. Windy Winners 27.6.24 Class Value - Friendship Top Sportsperson Dragonflies Haroon Thomas Ladybirds Millie Layla Robins Liliana Louie Owls Enya George...
Olympics Day!
On Wednesday, we held an Olympics Day to celebrate the upcoming summer games. As part of this, children all came dressed in the colours of an Olympic country and made flags and banners in class for our final parade. They also took part in a number of physical...
Sports Day 2024!
On Monday, we were lucky enough to have our sports day. 3 representatives from the GSSP came into set up and run the day with a range of exciting activities. In the morning, KS1 began to earn points for their house teams with the Rubies gaining the most in the morning...
Year 2 Homework 7.6.24
English Homework - Page 40 Remember to practise reading. Maths Homework – Page 38 TT Rockstars- in their Maths homework book. Homework needs to be in by Wednesday 12th June Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities. It...
Plant Hunters in KS1
This afternoon, the weather was finally dry enough for Robins, Owls and Nightingales to get out into our amazing school grounds and explore. We were looking for some of the many different types of plants in our school grounds to complete this term's science topic. We...