Welcome to Owls
Hi and welcome to Owls. Our teacher is Mr McKay, who is accompanied by Mrs Collison, Miss Turnbull and Miss Carr and Mrs Wilson.
In Owls we love to have fun and learn lots of new and exciting things. We always try our best in everything we do.
Resources:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Important Information for Owls Parents
Homework – KS1 – Owls, Robins and Nightingales
Choose one of the activities each week as a homework task. You can choose any activity you want from the table and you can record it in your homework book. Once you have completed the task, colour the box and add the date you completed it. Homework books will be handed out on a Friday to be returned on the Wednesday.
Spellings
Spellings will be set each Friday and tested the following Friday. Each week, your child’s spellings will be stuck in their reading diary so please ensure it is in school on a Friday. A half termly overview can be found below. Please check carefully which set of spellings your child is learning.
Overview of Spellings Spring 1
P.E. – Tuesday
Children must come to school in their school P.E. kit of plain white t-shirt, black shorts, leggings or tracksuit bottoms and plain white or black trainers.
Please check ARBOR for regular updates and information.
Thanks
Mr McKay
Online Homework and Information
Resources
Phonics websites for games to help support your child with phonics.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase3Menu.htm
For more information about helping your child with phonics please refer to the following websites.
P.E.
Windy Winners!
This week our two awards were for a Top Growth Mindset and Top Researcher. Well done to all of our winners! 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 Growth Mindset ...
Year 1 Homework 02.12.22
This week’s homework 02.12.22 for Year 1 is CGP Maths pages 10 and 11 Adding. Children to return completed for Friday 09.12.22 Thanks Mrs Short & Miss Thompson Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to...
Christmas Clothes Appeal
Please can you help our school fundraise for Christmas? Fundraise & recycle poster
A visit from Reverend Danie
This week, KS1 and KS2 were lucky enough to have the wonderful Reverend Danie come into school and carry out some workshops. The children were so engaged in KS1 and LKS2 as Reverend Danie acted out the Christmas story. The Reverend left us with some 'I wonder'...
Road Safety Day 2022
Windy Nook celebrated Road Safety Day by taking part in various activities that raised awareness of how to be safe when in or around vehicles. Classes took part in practical activities that looked at how a seatbelt/helmet works; the importance of crossings and why...
Windy Winners!
Last week our two awards were for a Top Effort and Top Scientist. Well done to all of our winners! 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 Scientist ...
Anti-Bullying Newsletter
Bullying comes in many shapes and forms including physical, emotional and psychological. The latter of the two can create many hidden scars and can go unnoticed. This is particularly prevalent online, our children spend an increasing amount of time online on social...
Children In Need 2022
Today all of the children in school have celebrated and raised money for Children In Need. As a school we have raised an amazing £509.82. A huge thank you to everyone for your generous donations. In classes, the children took part in a spot design competition...
Anti-Bullying Week 2022
In celebration of Anti-Bullying Week, children across the whole of Windy Nook have taken part in a variety of activities and lessons to spread the message to 'Reach Out'. On Monday, everyone wore their favourite odd socks to kick-start the week by celebrating...
Year 1 Homework 18.11.22
This week’s homework 18.11.22 for Year 1 is CGP Maths pages 4 and 5 Number and Place Value. Children to return completed for Friday 25.1.22 Thanks Mrs Short & Miss Thompson Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go...
2022 Remembrance Day
This week as a whole school we have been preparing poppies to create a poppy garden and a fallen poppy display in the entrance of school. Today the whole school came together to pat their respects at 11am for a 2 minute silence around the poppy garden. They listened...
Logging onto an ebook
This weeks ICT lesson saw Owls logging on to a chrome book with their own login and password. Then they went onto Google Classroom to click on the link to open Purple Mash. Once in Purple Mash they then opened an ebook to look at and read. Article 16: You have the...