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Letters to Parents

Often, a letter home requires a response from you, for example, the return of a permission form.

We would be very grateful if you could respond to such requests in a timely fashion. This will help us work more efficiently.

Frequently used letters – please click the link below to download a copy.

Windy Nook updated Home School Agreement

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Kind Hands in Nursery

Kind Hands in Nursery

We have continued to focus on following our nursery routine and getting to know each other this week. We read the story, Picasso's Trousers and talked about how we are all artists like Picasso. We have now all completed self portrait paintings which look fantastic...

Phonics Meeting for Reception Parents

Phonics Meeting for Reception Parents

Further to the Reception class parent reading meeting in school this week, please find attached information about phonics and reading information. You can download the presentation as a PDF, where there are QR codes signposting you to different areas of support from...

New Beginnings in Nursery

New Beginnings in Nursery

A warm welcome to our new friends in nursery and also our children who attended nursery last term. Our existing children have welcomed their new friends with kindness and some friendships are already beginning to form. We are focussing on following the nursery routine...

Rotbots and rosemary seeds

Rotbots and rosemary seeds

Today we completed our rotbot activity. We topped our rotbots up with compost from our compost bin that we have been making over the last eighteen months and then added some rosemary seeds. We are going to take our finished rotbots home tomorrow to look after and...

Beach Treasure Sculptures by Nursery!

Beach Treasure Sculptures by Nursery!

Nursey have been artists again today and made some fantastic sculptures and patterns using our beach treasure. We made pictures of flowers, faces, tall pebble structures and driftwood collages to name a few. Article 1: Everyone, under 18, has the rights of the UN...

Nursery Sports Day

Nursery Sports Day

Nursey had a super Sports Day today! They took park in a variety of races which included an obstacle race, running race, balancing race and a basket ball activity. The children showed determination throughout the activities and encouraged their fiends when challenges...

90s Summer Festival 2023

90s Summer Festival 2023

Today was the return of the annual Summer Festival at Windy Nook. We decided on a 90s theme and all of the children really dressed for the occasion. Year 6 led the event, painting banners and manning all of the different stations on offer: bubbles; juice and biscuits;...

KS1 Art Gallery

KS1 Art Gallery

Round 2 for our Windy Nook gallery and this time with EYFS and KS1. What a great evening seeing all of the children’s hard work on their portraits as well as their sketchbooks. It was lovely to see the children so proud of what they had created and showing this off to...

Games, art, 90s and much more!

Games, art, 90s and much more!

This week in nursery we have continued to focus on beaches and Summer. We read the story, Bluey, The Beach and discussed words like; scuttle and pipi. We used the internet to find out what they mean and we watched a video of a crab scuttling and then we pretended to...

School Games Day

School Games Day

This week, across the whole school, we celebrated School Games Day. This is a day where we focus on a mass sports event and look at some of the countries involved with it to celebrate sports achievement. This year, we focussed on the upcoming Women's World Cup. In...

Terrific Transition in Early Years!

Terrific Transition in Early Years!

Nursery have thoroughly enjoyed their transition sessions in their new classrooms over the last two days. Mrs Ramanandi and Miss Burns were very complementary about the children and referred to them as delightful which has made the nursery staff very proud indeed! The...