School Policies/Useful Documents
Footy Skills in the Beeches
The Beeches class completed their first football session last night. Passing and creating space was the main focus and even the rain didn't dampen our spirits! Article 15: You have the right to choose your own friends and join or set up groups, as long as it isn't...
Owls Art Club
The children in Owls had a fantastic time at Art club. We started creating our clay hedgehog pencil holders by moulding and shaping the air dry clay to create our hedgehog shape. The children also created some fantastic superhero crafts. What fun!! Article 15...
Windy Winners!
Winy Winners has a new format moving forward in that we will be presenting two certificates per week. Each week will have a particular focus and this week it is 'Maths'. So a huge well done and thank you to our winners this week! Our Top Effort and Mathematician...
Logging on and logging off with the Dragonflies
The Dragonflies visited the Web, the school computing suite, for the first time this week. The children learned how to log on to the computers, open a program and use it, and log off. The children will be visiting the Web weekly to practise learn and practise...
A great first week back in Ladybirds
The children all seemed to have had a lovely Easter half term and came back safe and well. Our topic this half term is all about the garden and outdoors. What grows in the garden? How we can look after it? This week they have been spending lots of time enjoying...
Fun in the sun!
A warm welcome to our new starters this week. We have had a super busy week learning about zebras, focusing on the book, Gorgeous, about a mother zebra and her foal. We found out that the stripes on zebras are a little bit like like finger prints as no set of stripes...
Change4Life in Snowdrops
This term, Snowdrops are lucky enough to have an extra PE session each Friday - thanks to Change4Life. We were very grateful to Alex who came in and taught us some skills and drills in tag rugby. We played some exciting and energetic invasion games, as well as doing...
How to…
...make a jam sandwich! In our English lessons we have been finding out about the features of instruction texts to help us write our own instructions next week. We looked at - what you need lists, numbered steps, time words, bossy verbs (and even found out they are...
It has been a ‘jammy’ Friday in the Robins
In Year 1 this week we have been learning all about instructions. We have been exploring what instructions are, what they are used for and what they must include. Today we used some instructions that we created as a class to make a jam sandwich. The Robins agreed that...
Tulips Spelling Lists 23.4.21
Both spelling groups have a new set of spelling words and a spelling test on Friday 30th April. Lists are below. Miss Hogg's Group Spelling Test: Friday 30th April 2021 Spelling rule: words with the /s/ sound spelt sc (Latin in origin) In the Latin words from which...
Bluebells Homework – 23.4.21
Hello Bluebells. Homework is posted on Google Classroom (https://classroom.google.com/) - I have copied the details below but could you please check you have a working login for Google Classroom as it has been some time! The homework is on your BLUEBELLS class - not...
2’s 5’s and 10’s!
Year 1 have been learning and practising their 2, 5 and 10 times tables in class. To encourage the children to become more confident and fluent with their times tables, they will be tested every Friday. This will start from next week (30.4.21) and for the next two...
Place value games in Maths
This week in Maths we are focusing on place value. The children in Nightingales have been looking at the tens and ones in two-digit numbers and comparing numbers. Today to practice recognising which numbers are greater, the children in Nightingales played a place...
Our Windy Nook Community
This week in RE lessons, the children in LKS2 discussed what it means to belong to a community. The children then considered what it means to belong to the Windy Nook School community. As part of their lesson the children designed a badge which reflects the values of...
Bluebells Pop into Easter
Bluebells enjoyed a Pop Art themed Easter celebration today. Children had a fun-filled day of art tasks to use some of the key ideas of Pop Art (bold colours, contrast, comic strip) and apply them to Easter. Afterwards, children completed a Pop Art quiz to see what...
Eggsellent Easter Eggs!
What a fantastic response we had to our virtual Easter Egg Competition. There were some amazing designs and we'd like to thanks everyone who participated. Why not have a look at the some of the 'eggselllent' designs below! Well done and congratulations to the...
Windy Winners!
A huge well done to our children today for all their efforts and hard work! Ladybirds - Oliver Dragonflies - Oliver Robins - Evie Owls - Alex Nightingales - Freya Bees - Cole Bluebells - Redoz Tulips - Wania Snowdrops - Luke Elms - Maddie Beeches - Lydia Oaks - all of...
PE for the remainder of the school year
Dear Parent/Carer We have decided to continue doing PE twice a week in KS1 and KS2 until the end of the school year. We think it's extremely important that children are engaging with exercise regularly as this is beneficial for their physical and mental health and...
Easter fun in Nightingales!
To celebrate Easter in Nightingales, the children made some Spring coloured Easter baskets. We also sorted instructions in English to work out how to make chocolate nests and then made them as a class. The children all had a lot of fun and went home with a tasty...
Happy Easter!
This week, we have focused on the Easter Story and why Easter eggs are a tradition at Easter. We made some Easter nests using Weetabix and chocolate, which we enjoyed eating during snack time today. We also listened to the story, We're Going on an Egg Hunt. We were...
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