by Crowe | Jul 16, 2021 | Nightingales, Outdoor Learning, Science
This afternoon in Nightingales we ventured up to the pond for the first time this year. The children learnt how to safely gather water and use the nets. In small groups of 3 they did some pond dipping and managed to find a variety of different creatures such as pond...
by Amanda Clough | Jul 1, 2021 | Butterflies and Caterpillars, English, Health and Well-Being, Maths, News, Outdoor Learning, Science
This week we focused on the story, Vanilla Loves Vanilla and tasted the vanilla and strawberry ice cream that we made last week. It was delicious! We have continued designing and making computer and collage ice creams, which look almost good enough to eat! Article 28:...
by Amanda Clough | Jun 25, 2021 | Butterflies and Caterpillars, English, Health and Well-Being, Maths, Science
This week we have based our learning around ice cream. We enjoyed the story of Keith the Cat and his Magic Hat and some us designed an ice cream on the computer and then made a collage of it (we will be continuing this next week). We practised some number recognition...
by Amanda Clough | Jun 17, 2021 | Butterflies and Caterpillars, English, Health and Well-Being, Maths, Outdoor Learning, Science
This week, we have continued our camping/outdoors theme. We pretended that our maths area was a camp fire and used a frying pan and some fake sausages to help us learn the song, Ten Fat Sausages Sizzling in a Pan. We did some fantastic counting while making the...
by Mr. Hawdon | May 27, 2021 | Beeches, Elms, News, Oaks, Science
This term UKS2 have began to look at properties of materials and this week we’ve decided to carry out some investigations. We looked at different types of paper and tried to measure their respective tensile strengths. Further investigations will be carried out...
by Miss Calam | May 25, 2021 | Beeches, Bees, Bluebells, Butterflies and Caterpillars, Dragonflies, Elms, Ladybirds, News, Nightingales, Oaks, Outdoor Learning, Owls, Robins, Science, Snowdrops, Tulips
Last week was Science week here at Windy Nook and we took the opportunity to look at the biodiversity of our school grounds. Each year group had a specific natural aspect to investigate and we explored all around our school grounds, taking notice of the different...
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