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Nightingales (Y2)

Welcome to Nightingales 

Our teacher is Miss Thompson, who is accompanied by Mrs Welsh. 

In Year 2 we work hard, always do our best and have fun! 

We like to look out for each other and work as a team. 

Resources: 

Must Reads KS1 master copy  

https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/2/Year-2 

https://ttrockstars.com/login 

https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks1-school-pupils/suggested-reading-list-year-2-pupils-ks1-age-6-7/ 

https://www.thereaderteacher.com/year2 

Important information: 

Our PE day is Tuesday – children come into school wearing their PE kit on this day. 

Homework – KS1 – Owls, Robins and Nightingales
Choose one of the activities each week as a homework task.  You can choose any activity you want from the table and you can record it in your homework book.  Once you have completed the task, colour the box and add the date you completed it.  Homework books will be handed out on a Friday to be returned on the Wednesday.

Spellings are given out on Monday and expected to be practised regularly during the week. Spelling test is on Friday morning.

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask.

 

 

School Games Mark Platinum Award!

School Games Mark Platinum Award!

Each year, our school applies for the school games mark, which is a nationally recognised value mark for PE and school sport. Over the last couple of years, the school games mark hasn't ran due to Covid. However, prior to Covid we had achieved Gold in the school games...

Let’s go fly a kite!

Let’s go fly a kite!

In Nightingales this week children have been using their knowledge of materials to make a kite for Barnaby Bear. They looked at different materials before choosing which would be strong enough. Then they went outside to test their kites. Comparable test Article 12:...

School Games Day!

School Games Day!

Yesterday, children across the whole school came together to celebrate School Games Day. Each class was assigned a country and came dressed in the colours of their countries' flags. This year's School Games Day was focused on Paralympic and disability sport. In the...

Windy Winners!

Windy Winners!

A huge well done to all our winners this week. Our two awards were for a 'Top Effort and Top Reflector' Class  Top Effort  Top Reflector   Dragonflies  Oliver  Caleb  Ladybirds   Ariadne     Elsa  Robins  Heidi  Oscar  Owls  Yomna  George  Nightingales  Leo  Jace ...

WN PTFA Splat the Staff and Break the Rules

WN PTFA Splat the Staff and Break the Rules

Windy Nook PTFA will host a summer fun day on Thursday 14th July 2022. Hopefully the children will have lots of fun and we will raise a little bit of money for the PTFA. Break the Rules! The children can break any of the following rules No uniform – come in casual...

WN PTFA Tombola donations needed please

WN PTFA Tombola donations needed please

Can you help us raise money by donating a new/unopened item for our Fun Day Tombola? Bottles or cans of wine, spirit, lager and cider – welcome. Bottles, jars or sprays of toiletries – we’ll take those too! Boxes of biscuits and sweets – most definitely. Gift cards or...

Proud of our Pointillism in Nightingales

Proud of our Pointillism in Nightingales

Nightingales have been learning about artists who used the technique of pointillism in art this week. First we experimented with lots of different tools before deciding which would be most effective. Then we created our own art just like the Aborigines did. We are so...

Marvellous Mathemagicians

Marvellous Mathemagicians

This week Nightingales are focusing on working in teams to use their problem solving skills. They had digit cards 0-9. They had to add 3 cards to make 12. The challenge was to find at least 10 different ways. They had lots of different systems working in teams to do...

Awesome adjectives in Nightingales!

Awesome adjectives in Nightingales!

This week Nightingales have been super creative with words. We have been reading Dogger by Shirley Hughes and looking at the setting in the story. We sorted adjectives and nouns to create expanded noun phrases and found many different options. Then we created more...

KS1 and KS2 Sports Day

KS1 and KS2 Sports Day

On Friday, children in KS1 and KS2 had a fantastic day taking part in their sports day. With some help from Gateshead School Sport Partnership, the children competed  in 6 different events. The events were split into scored and non-scored events and the children won...

Look at our Playtimes in KS1!

Look at our Playtimes in KS1!

Playtimes at Windy Nook have just got a bit more exciting. We now have lots of pens, pencils and crayons so the children can be creative at playtimes. We have a big box of books so they can lie on the rugs and read together when the weather is dry. We still have lots...