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
Home Learning Feedback
A huge thank you to all parents who have completed the home learning survey so far; we really appreciate your input. Your feedback will help us to improve our home learning, and we already have some ideas for improvements we can make after Christmas. There is still...
17.12.20 Home Learning Bees and Nightingales
Good morning Bees and Nightingales! Our home learning is posted on Google classrooms. Spelling Practice spellings from this term. Choose the trickiest spellings. Write them down and highlight the bit you need to learn. Write 5 of them on 5 pieces of paper so you have...
16.12.20 Home Learning Bees and Nightingales
Good morning Bees and Nightingales! Our home learning is posted on Google classrooms. Spelling Practice spellings from this term. Choose a tricky one and see how many times you can write it in 1 minute. English Choose 3 countries from Christmas around the World on...
Home Learning Feedback
Dear parents and carers, Firstly, I'd just like to say again how much we all appreciate your support in our efforts to minimise the disruption to our pupils' learning while classes have been closed. We are always looking to improve, and we'd be grateful if you could...
Christmas PE!
Today in Nightingales we mixed PE with a bit of Christmas crafts. This morning we made reindeer and elf headbands for our Christmas themed PE lesson. The children put on their reindeer hats and got into character for our 'Reindeer races'. They then switched to their...
End of Term Message
15/12/20 Dear parents and carers As the Autumn term comes to an end, school is a very different place to what it normally would be. No carols are playing in the school office, there have been no visits from Santa and no pantomime dames have been seen dancing and...
15.12.20 Home learning Bees and Nightingales
Good morning Bees and Nightingales! Our home learning is posted on Google classrooms. Spelling Practice spellings from this term. Use rainbow spellings to help you reinforce 5 of them. English Read the Space text from yesterday. What happens next? Continue the story....
14.12.20 Home Learning Nightingales
Good morning Nightingales! Our home learning is posted on Google classrooms. Spelling Practice spellings from this term. Use triangle spellings to help you reinforce 5 of them. English Read the Reading Comprehension on Google Classroom. Answer the questions. Maths...
Winter Runderland Week 2
Well it's been another fantastic week across the school for our Winter RUNderland challenge. The children have been earning even more carrots both in school and at home. The activities this week have ranged from dance, to running to yoga! It is so great to see so many...
Important Information for parents/carers (11.12.20)
11th December 2020 Dear Parents & Carers As we come to the end of a very difficult of year, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your vital support in keeping the Gateshead School community safe and ensuring your son/daughter maintains their...
11.12.20 Nightingales
Good Morning Everyone! Login to google classrooms for your home learning. English Login to Purple Mash for a Nativity Quiz. https://www.purplemash.com/ Then draw your own Nativity scene with all of the characters and lots of detail from the story. If you would like to...
Let’s Get Creative!
As part of our topic 'Let's Get Creative' we have been designing and making Christmas stockings. The children started by researching different types of stockings and making some decisions about the stockings they liked best and why. Next they designed the stocking...