Welcome to Nightingales
Teachers: Miss Thompson, Mrs Welsh and Mrs McDonald
Welcome to Nightingales!
Welcome to Nightingales! We want our classroom to be a happy, friendly place where children are encouraged to feel confident, cared for and excited about learning. In Nightingales, we love celebrating achievements, supporting one another and helping every child to do their very best. We look forward to sharing lots of wonderful learning experiences and making happy memories together throughout the year!
Year 2 Homework
Homework is set every Friday and should be completed and returned by the following Thursday. Year 2 children will complete activities from their CPG books, alternating weekly between Maths and English tasks.
Year 1 Homework
During the first term, Year 1 children will take part in a ‘Pick and Mix’ style homework programme. Each week, children can choose an activity they would like to complete. Homework will be given out on a Friday and should be returned by the following Thursday.
Spellings
A spelling overview will be sent home at the beginning of each half term, outlining all the spellings children will be learning. Children will also receive a weekly spelling list containing that week’s focus words. Regular practice at home will help children to become confident and successful spellers.
Reading
Children should read at home every day for a minimum of 10 to 15 minutes.
Daily reading is vital for developing children’s fluency, vocabulary and comprehension skills. We encourage families to make reading a regular and enjoyable part of their child’s daily routine.
PE
PE Day: Wednesday
This term, PE lessons will be taught by Mr Peden. Please ensure that children have the correct PE kit in school each week.
We appreciate your support and look forward to working together to help every child achieve their very best.
Resources:
Must Reads KS1 master copy
https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/2/Year-2
https://www.thereaderteacher.com/year2
Key Stage One Spelling Workshops
Least week, Robins, Owls, Nightingales and Bees invited parents and carers into school to take part in a spelling workshop. This gave parents and carers an overview of how we teach spelling in school and some useful hints to make practising spellings at home more...
A Special Visitor in Key Stage One
This half term, Key Stage One have been learning about the Jewish festival of Purim. We were lucky enough to have a visitor from the Jewish community visit our school to tell us all about why and how Purim is celebrated. The children enjoyed listening to the stories...
Researching Ghana in Year 2
This week, Bees and Nightingales have been researching to find out lots of different information about Ghana. We started the week learning about the differences between fiction and non fiction texts, identifying the different features of both and sorting a range of...
Windy Winners!
A huge well done to all of our winners this week: 'Top Effort and Top Writers'. 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. Class Top Effort Top Writer Handwriter ...
Year 2 Homework 22.3.24
English Homework – Page 4 Remember to practise reading. Spellings can be practised by logging in to Spelling Shed. Maths Homework – Page 53 Practise 2, 5, 3 x tables. Your child has their TT Rockstar login in their Maths homework book. Homework needs to be in by...
Comic Relief at Windy Nook
Staff and children at Windy Nook made a great effort on Friday to support comic relief, with many wearing red to support the day. Children shared their best jokes in a competition which saw a winner chosen from each class. As well as the show of support in clothing...
Science Week 2024
Last week the children all took part in this year's science week. This year the theme of British Science Week was time and the children had lots of fun across school taking part in different live lessons and mini practical investigations, some of which were related to...
Year 2 Homework
English Homework - Page 9 Remember to practise reading. Spellings can be practised by logging in to Spelling Shed. Maths Homework – Page 14 Practise 2, 5, 3 x tables. Your child has their TT Rockstar login in their Maths homework book. Homework needs to be in by...
#LetGirlsPlay Celebration Day
On Friday, we celebrated a national event by taking part in the #LetGirlsPlay campaign. This campaign is designed to help get more girls involved in football and address some of the gender inequalities that currently exist. As part of this day, children had an...
Sorting 3D shapes
Year 2 have been busy looking at properties of 3D shapes, using them to sort the shapes in different ways. We have been using Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams to think about edges, vertices and surfaces of shapes. We even created our own labels for each other to...
Windy Winners!
A huge well done to all of our winners for both this week and last. 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. Class Top Effort Top Reader Handwriter Dragonflies Haroon...
Nightingales Homework 8.3.24
English Homework – Page 12 & 13 Remember to practise reading. Spellings can be practised by logging in to Spelling Shed. Maths Homework – Page 44 Practise 2, 5, 3 x tables. Your child has their new TT Rockstar login in their Maths homework book. Homework needs to...