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://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
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.
Maths
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!
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!
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...
Travel Information from Tyne & Wear Metro
Some great free travel information from Tyne & Wear Metro. Please click on the link below to download the flyer: Tyne and Wear Metro_Take the kids for free poster
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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!
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...