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Hands on with handspans in Nightingales
Today Nightingales have been in investigating in Maths. We used our new measuring skills. The statement we investigated was, "Jace has the biggest handspan in the class. True or false?" We checked everyone's handspan measurement accurately and put our results into a...
Year 5 Homework (11.2.22)
This week our homework is as follows (11.2.22). Reading Plus – Complete two texts CGP Maths book- Multiplying fractions by whole numbers (pages 32-33 ) Spelling practice sheet- Look, cover, write and check activity CGP Books English-Silent letters(pages 90-91) ...
Investigating Forces in Nightingales
This week Nightingales have been investigating how the gradient of a ramp impacts on the distance a car can travel. We started by exploring the movement of objects on different surfaces. Then we set up our investigation using 3 blocks, a ramp and a car. Everyone had a...
Measuring Madness!
This week Nightingales have been learning how to measure accurately. They started by measuring simple lines and progressed to measuring objects around the classroom. Today they worked with their partners to measure parts of their bodies. They learned some new...
Boccia
Today a team of children from Year 5 attended the Top Sportsability Boccia event. This event is specifically ran to help children who may find contact sports and other more traditional competitions overwhelming. The children took part in Boccia, which is a renowned...
Democracy with Durham Politics Students
Year 6 have been lucky enough to work with 2 Politics students from Durham University for the past few weeks during their History lessons on Ancient Greece. Today, the students delivered lessons on democracy comparing Ancient Greece to the modern UK. It gave the...
Jane Goodall Expert’s Virtual Visit
This morning, children were lucky enough to have a live link lesson with an expert from Dr. Jane Goodall's 'Roots & Shoots' programme. The children are learning about Dr. Goodall, who made amazing scientific discoveries regarding chimpanzees. Dr. Goodall has spent...
Relationships and Sex Education Consultation Questionnaire
At Windy Nook Primary School, we aim to promote personal wellbeing and development through a comprehensive taught programme of Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education that gives children the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to...
Fraction Scavenger Hunt in Year 5
The past three weeks, Year 5 have been learning all about fractions. They have done brilliantly at learning lots of tricky methods such as converting between mixed and improper fractions and comparing and ordering. Today, we took the fractions outside to take part in...
Windy Winners!
Our children had the opportunity to show-off their language skills this week as our feature award was for a 'Top Linguist'. We also awarded 'Top Attitude' as well; this is a fantastic certificate to receive. Well done everyone! Class Top Attitude Top Linguist ...
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