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
Support for Parents and Carers
The guidance we have been given at school is that we should not have parents and carers in school at the moment. We would usually be holding reviews for our children with additional needs in the next few weeks. In school I have regular conversations with teaching...
Which direction? Maths in Nightingales.
This week in Maths Nightingales have been learning about Position and Direction. We have been using mathematical language such as clockwise, anti-clockwise, forwards, backwards, left and right. We went outside to practise! Then we found we could use this to solve...
Windy Winners!
This week the focus has been on 'Top Handwriters' and at Windy Nook we believe that handwriting and presentation are very important; equally as important is to have a 'Top Attitude' to learning. Windy Winners 4.11.21 Class Top Attitude Top Handwriting Dragonflies...
Windy Winners!
Our last Windy Winners certificate for this half term were awarded for Top Reader and Top Effort! So, it's a huge well done to everyone. We would also like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy and safe half term holidays and we look forward to seeing you all...
Spooky Goings on in KS1
The children loved showing off their spooky halloween costumes today. We loved the t-shirt designs. They were spooktacular! Article 15: You have the right to choose your own friends and join or set up groups, as long as it isn't harmful to...
Times Tables support KS1
Times Tables links to games and songs 3x table rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzVyBQ5uTbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyqWKt89Je4 5x table rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8qZ66l_bhA 2x table rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGWMPqh04o4...
Windy Winners!
This week our focus has been on a Top Reflector and it' a fantastic way of demonstrating speaking and listening skills. Top Attitude was our other award and it's always a difficult one to give out because all of our children demonstrate 'Top Attitudes' on a daily...
Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones…
In Science Nightingales have been learning about our skeletons. We can name lots of our bones and we know why our bones are so important. Today we used art straws to create the skeleton. Look at the amazing results! Article 28: You have the right to a good quality...
Smartie Pants!
Today Nightingales have been learning about division using the power of smarties! We used the smarties as counters to work out division calculations. We worked out that we needed an even number of smarties to share equally between 2 people. There were empty plates by...
Adventurous Adverbs!
Today Nightingales have been learning about adverbs. We started by reminding ourselves about verbs by doing our verb rap. Then, we took turns to act out our adverbs. Children took turns to walk angrily, anxiously, cheerfully, fearfully and grumpily. Can you match the...
Our Autumn Walk
Nightingales enjoyed a walk around the school grounds looking for signs of Autumn. On our way we thought of adjectives to describe our findings. Back at school we wrote a recount of our travels and we are fabulous at writing expanded noun phrases like 'amber, crunchy...
Halloween T-Shirt Competition & Dress Up or Down Day
Calling all witches, wizards, skeletons and ghosts. Halloween is almost here! To celebrate, Windy Nook PTFA would love the children of Windy Nook primary School to design a Halloween themed t-shirt. It could be anything Halloween related e.g. a pumpkin, ghost, mummy,...