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
KS1 look at colour and pattern
In art this half term the children have enjoyed using paint and pattern. They began the topic by looking at primary colours on a colour wheel and how those primary colours can be mixed together to make secondary colours. They also created warm/cool shades and...
Windy Nook -vs- Ghana
This half terms geography topic was comparing Windy Nook to Ghana in Africa. The children began the topic by locating the UK and Ghana on the map of the world as well as naming and locating the world's 7 continents and five oceans. Next they compared human and...
Key Stage One Spelling Workshops
Least week, Robins, Owls, Nightingales and Bees invited parents and carers into school to take part in a spelling workshop. This gave parents and carers an overview of how we teach spelling in school and some useful hints to make practising spellings at home more...
A Special Visitor in Key Stage One
This half term, Key Stage One have been learning about the Jewish festival of Purim. We were lucky enough to have a visitor from the Jewish community visit our school to tell us all about why and how Purim is celebrated. The children enjoyed listening to the stories...
Researching Ghana in Year 2
This week, Bees and Nightingales have been researching to find out lots of different information about Ghana. We started the week learning about the differences between fiction and non fiction texts, identifying the different features of both and sorting a range of...
Windy Winners!
A huge well done to all of our winners this week: 'Top Effort and Top Writers'. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can. Class Top Effort Top Writer Handwriter ...
Year 2 Homework 22.3.24
English Homework – Page 4 Remember to practise reading. Spellings can be practised by logging in to Spelling Shed. Maths Homework – Page 53 Practise 2, 5, 3 x tables. Your child has their TT Rockstar login in their Maths homework book. Homework needs to be in by...
Comic Relief at Windy Nook
Staff and children at Windy Nook made a great effort on Friday to support comic relief, with many wearing red to support the day. Children shared their best jokes in a competition which saw a winner chosen from each class. As well as the show of support in clothing...
Science Week 2024
Last week the children all took part in this year's science week. This year the theme of British Science Week was time and the children had lots of fun across school taking part in different live lessons and mini practical investigations, some of which were related to...
Year 2 Homework
English Homework - Page 9 Remember to practise reading. Spellings can be practised by logging in to Spelling Shed. Maths Homework – Page 14 Practise 2, 5, 3 x tables. Your child has their TT Rockstar login in their Maths homework book. Homework needs to be in by...
#LetGirlsPlay Celebration Day
On Friday, we celebrated a national event by taking part in the #LetGirlsPlay campaign. This campaign is designed to help get more girls involved in football and address some of the gender inequalities that currently exist. As part of this day, children had an...
Sorting 3D shapes
Year 2 have been busy looking at properties of 3D shapes, using them to sort the shapes in different ways. We have been using Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams to think about edges, vertices and surfaces of shapes. We even created our own labels for each other to...