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Owls (Y1/2)

Welcome to Owls

Hi and welcome to Owls. Our teacher is Mr McKay, who is accompanied by Mrs Collison, Miss Turnbull and Miss Carr and Mrs Wilson.

In Owls we love to have fun and learn lots of new and exciting things. We always try our best in everything we do.

Resources:

Must Reads KS1 master copy

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Important Information for Owls Parents

Homework – KS1 – Owls, Robins and Nightingales

Choose one of the activities each week as a homework task.  You can choose any activity you want from the table and you can record it in your homework book.  Once you have completed the task, colour the box and add the date you completed it.  Homework books will be handed out on a Friday to be returned on the Wednesday.

Spellings

Spellings will be set each Friday and tested the following Friday. Each week, your child’s spellings will be stuck in their reading diary so please ensure it is in school on a Friday. A half termly overview can be found below. Please check carefully which set of spellings your child is learning.

Overview of Spellings Spring 1

P.E. – Tuesday

Children must come to school in their school P.E. kit of plain white t-shirt, black shorts, leggings or tracksuit bottoms and plain white or black trainers.

Please check ARBOR for regular updates and information.

Thanks

Mr McKay

Robins and Owls homework

Robins and Owls homework

This week’s homework 10.3.23 for Year 1 is CGP Grammar Punctuation and Spelling page 13 Children to return completed for Friday 17.3.23 Thanks Miss Thompson & Mrs Short    Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go...

Open wide -the dentists are in!

Open wide -the dentists are in!

The children learned all about looking after their teeth properly today. They practised cleaning model mouths, learned about sugary foods and drink and even role-played a bit of dentistry themselves. We may have some future dentists amongst us!     Article...

KS1 walk around our local area of Windy Nook

KS1 walk around our local area of Windy Nook

The children enjoyed taking a walk around our local area of Windy Nook. They discussed on their walk all of the human features that they could see such as paths, roads, shops, houses and churches as well as physical features of trees, grass, bushes and rocks. Article...

Sorting properties of 3D shapes

Sorting properties of 3D shapes

Year 1 have been investigating the properties of 3D shapes. They have worked hard looking at different ways that they could be sorted such as curved faces, more than 8 vertices, square faces or triangle faces. Article 13: You have the right to find out things and...

Windy Winners!

Windy Winners!

Congratulations to all of our winners this week. Top Reader and Top Effort. Well done everyone! Class  Top Effort  Top Reader     Dragonflies  Ayla  Poppy    Ladybirds  Gracie   Theodore     Robins  Harry  Faye    Owls  Elsa  Bobby    Nightingales  Charlie  Myla   ...

3D shape investigation

3D shape investigation

Owls have enjoyed investigating the properties of 3D shapes during their Maths lessons this week. They investigated how they were made up of 2D shapes, how many faces they had, how many edges and how many vertices each shape had. They also played guess who with their...

Owls & Robins Year 1 Homework w.e. 03.03.23

Owls & Robins Year 1 Homework w.e. 03.03.23

This week’s homework 03.03.23 for Year 1 is CGP Maths pages 7 & 8 Ordering Numbers. Children to return completed for Friday 10.03.23 Thanks Mrs Short & Miss Thompson Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to...

Pitch Perfect

Pitch Perfect

In music, we have been learning about pitch. We have been identifying whether we can hear a high or a low pitch. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can.

In the hot seat!

In the hot seat!

Year 1 have enjoyed reading Mr Wolf's Pancakes this week. We thought about questions we would like to ask Mr Wolf if we ever met him and wrote these down. Then, we took turns to play the role of Mr Wolf and answer these questions. Article 12: you have the right to an...

World Book Day 2023!

World Book Day 2023!

On Thursday 2nd March, Windy Nook Primary joined schools around the country and around the world to celebrate World Book Day. The idea of this special day is to promote a love of reading and enjoyment of books. We had lots of book-based activities going on in school,...

Understanding Palm Sunday

Understanding Palm Sunday

This week in RE the children watched a video telling them about Palm Sunday and how Jesus and his followers went to Jerusalem for the Passover Feast. Jesus told two of his followers to bring him a donkey and told them where to find it. He also said, “Tell the people...

Working like Matisse

Working like Matisse

Today we have been looking at the work of Matisse. He did not have pens and paint to work with so used cut and torn paper to make his art  We copied his ideas and have made some great pieces of artwork.