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:
- Reading books will be changed on a Friday. Please ensure children bring their reading book and diary every day as they will also read in school. Please fill in the diary when you have read with your child at home.
- Our PE day is Wednesday – children come into school wearing their PE kit on this day.
- Homework will be given out on a Friday and we ask that it is back in school by the following Thursday.
- Weekly spellings will be introduced to the children on a Monday and should be practised throughout the week, little and often.
- If your child is having a school lunch, please ensure that payment is now done on Arbor.
February Walk to School Badges
In February, we had another successful month with our walk to school badges. In February we recorded 2,519 active trips as a school and 202 children received their badges (an increase of over 20 children from last month). We are really pleased that so many families...
Fairtrade Fortnight
Last week we enjoyed exploring Fairtrade Fortnight across the school. We have learned about food producers from different parts of the world and the problems that affect farmers in some countries and areas. We learned what the Fairtrade scheme is and the importance...
KS1 Art Club- Vehicle Creations!
KS1 Art Club were busy last term creating some vehicles linking to their topic, 'Trains, planes and automobiles'. The children were excellent at thinking creatively and thoroughly enjoyed getting to design their own vehicle. Take a look below! Article 31- Rest,...
Windy Winners!
This week sees our children having the opportunity to 'show off' their maths skills - it's an important subject and our children give 100% in every lesson. Our children also give 100% effort in everything that they do. So it's a huge well done to all of our 'Top...
More fun on World Book Day!
As you'll see in another post, World Book Day was celebrated enthusiastically by staff and children at Windy Nook this week! 3rd March is a day to revel in a love of books and reading, to celebrate the amazing places books can take us and to share our favourite...
World Book Day at Windy Nook!
What a wonderful World Book Day we had at Windy Nook! On 3rd March, along with children all over the country and many parts of the world, the Windy Nookers celebrated the joy and wonder of books. The children had brilliant costumes of many great characters from story...
Where in the world…
Today Nightingales have been finding out about the 5 oceans and 7 continents of the world. They have also located the United Kingdom and Ghana. They also matched flags to their countries. Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and...
Growth Mindset in Nightingales
Today in Nightingales we have been comparing growth mindset with fixed mindset. We worked in groups to sort statements into the correct columns. We watched a video to learn about how we can expand our brains. Follow the link below: Your brain is like a muscle - Big...
Nightingales research non-fiction books features
Nightingales have been researching the features of non-fiction books. They discovered that most non-fiction books have: headings, sub-headings, photographs, diagrams, labels, captions, an index, a glossary and a contents page. Article 29: Your education should help...
Windy Winners!
Our Monthly Value this month is 'Tolerance' and the children have been learning about this through assemblies and just daily life around school. Top Readers and Attitudes were our weekly awards. A huge well done to all our children this week. Class Top Attitude Top...
Keeping Safe Online
Safer Internet Day was on Tuesday 8th February this year. The theme for this year was 'All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online'. In all areas of the school our children participated in a range of activities such as: quizzes, comprehensions and...
Growth Mindset in KS1
Dear Parent/ Carer After the half-term break we are having a Growth Mindset re-launch. We introduced this a few years ago and it is still at the heart of everything we do in school but the re-launch will give us the opportunity to be more explicit. We are teaching the...