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
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,...
The Great Fire of London Houses
In history Nightingales have been finding out about the Great Fire of London. We have been creating our own 'burning' houses too. Just look at the results. They are fabulous! Article 17: You have the right to get information that is important to your well-being, from...
Golden Time Lego Club
In Lego Club KS1 have had a building frenzy! A well-deserved reward on a Friday afternoon for all their hard work! 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 others. Article 13: You have...
London’s Burning! Send for the Nightingales!
In Nightingales we have been learning about the Great Fire of London. We have been comparing the fire services in 1666 to our services today. We experienced how difficult it must have been to put out the fire by passing containers of water down the line. It was so...
Windy Winners!
It's been another amazing week in Windy Nook! The focus has been on science and our children have had the opportunities to display these key skills. Our other award this week was for Top Effort, so well done, as always to our Winners! Windy winners 7.10.21 Class Top...
Windy Winners!
This week our focus has been on history because this links in with our topics UKS2 (Stone Age), LKS2 (Romans) and KS1 (Great Fire of London). Our other award was for Top Attitude, so it's a huge well done to all of our winners! Windy winners 30.9.21 Class ...
999, What’s Your Emergency?
Article 29: You have the right to an education We have been learning about the emergency services and what to do if we need the fire service, an ambulance, the police or coastguard. We used various scenarios, and role play, to act out emergency situations and then...
Spelling Information for KS1 Parents
Please read the attached document for supporting your child with their spelling. KS1 Spelling Parent Workshop pdf KS1 Spelling Parent Workshop For any further information contact your child's class teacher. Article 2: All children have rights. No child should be...