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
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...
Spaghetti Towers!
Today in Maths the Nightingales have been using their measuring skills to create towers using spaghetti and marshmallows. They learned that the base of the tower needed to be wider than the top and their measuring needed to be accurate. The marshmallows were tasty...
Investigating Materials in Nightingales
Today Nightingales have been learning about the properties of materials. They have learned vocabulary such as transparent, translucent and opaque and have been sorting materials into groups using these words. They used a variety of microscopes to look closer at the...
Celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go...
Wants and Needs in Nightingales
This week the children in Nightingales have been learning about the value of money and have been discussing the difference between wants and needs. They have also been learning how to prioritise what they can buy with a budget. Article 12: You have the right to give...
Diorama Workshop in Nightingales
We have had such an exciting week in Nightingales. As part of our research about The Great Barrier Reef the children invited their parents into school to make a diorama depicting a coral reef of their own. We were thrilled with the results! Article 12: You have the...
Nightingales go to Washington Wetlands
Today Nightingales climbed on a coach and travelled to Washington Wetlands for a day out. As it was the first full day visit out of school they were very excited! We had a tour around the site with June who told the children lots of information about the wetland birds...
Windy Winners!
This week our children had the opportunity to showcase their geography skills. Our supplementary award was for a 'Top Effort'. As always, it's a huge well done to all of our winners! Class Top Effort Top Geographer Dragonflies Isabelle Emily Ladybirds ...
Celebrating the Queens Platinum Jubilee
Friday 27th May will see the whole school celebrating the Queens Platinum Jubilee. Children can come to school dressed in red, white and blue. A traditional Punch and Judy show has been arranged, singing by the school choir and sign squad, a royal parade, a picnic...