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Robins (Y1/2)

Welcome to Robins

Hi and welcome to Robins. Our teachers are Mrs Preece and Mrs Ferry, who are accompanied by Miss Pearson, Mrs Pattison and Miss Carr.
In Robins we like to have lots of fun with our learning and try to be the best that we can be.

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Important Information for Robins 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.

 

Spellings Spring 1
P.E. – Friday
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.

 

World Book Day Celebrations

World Book Day Celebrations

Windy Nook celebrated a fun-packed World Book Day last Thursday, with the entire school taking part in a wide range of activities to cheer-on everything reading. All children received free books thanks to Mr. Atkinson from WHSmith, who kindly supplied these for us. In...

King of the Castle

King of the Castle

KS1 rounded off their 'King of the Castle' topic with a DT project. Their brief was to design a castle strong enough to protect the king! The first part of the process was to research different types of castles and identify the features found on both stone castles and...

Champion Gymnasts in KS1!

Champion Gymnasts in KS1!

KS1 have been learning about how to be a champion gymnast this half term. They have stepped up to the challenge showing many different ways to travel and balance using their big and small body parts.         Article 13: You have the right to find...

Humpty Dumpty Sat On a Wall

Humpty Dumpty Sat On a Wall

This half term we have been learning about everyday materials in science. Our investigation was to decide which material would be best at protecting Humpty Dumpty. Investigation focus: comparative test Before the investigation we explored different materials and...

How Many Jelly Beans?

How Many Jelly Beans?

The pupils and staff had a fantastic time celebrating the 25th anniversary of Number Day. We based our maths activities around the story 'How Many Jelly Beans?' The day was filled with fun activities focused on exploring the world of statistics and numbers. The...

Achieving the Silver Artsmark Award!

Achieving the Silver Artsmark Award!

Our journey towards achieving the Artsmark award has been a success! We have been awarded the Silver Award! After 2 years of hard work, we have raised the profile of the arts within school. This award (accredited by Arts Council England) is the only creative quality...

Safer Internet Day 2025

Safer Internet Day 2025

This year, we marked Safer Internet Day (which was on Tuesday 11th February) with special assemblies in our phases and a range of activities in all of our classes. This year's theme was ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online‘. Children...

Windy Nook Prepares for World Book Day

Windy Nook Prepares for World Book Day

Plans are underway for a fantastic day of literary fun as the school prepares for World Book Day on Thursday 6 March 2025. Children should have come home from school with a letter, detailing all the important events. If you did not receive a letter, please let your...

KS1 Visit Hylton Castle

KS1 Visit Hylton Castle

KS1 headed off to Hylton Castle this week to learn more about castles for their topic 'King of the Castle'. We learned about the armour a knight would wear and had the chance to hold chainmail so we could see how heavy it was. Our tour around the castle showed us how...

Maths in KS1

Maths in KS1

This week in KS1 we have Maths magicians. Owls and Robins have been looking at addition and subtraction, creating our own number stories and reinforcing number bonds to 10. Nightingales have been multiplying by 10! Why not ask us a tricky question at home and let us...

Body percussion in KS1

Body percussion in KS1

In KS1 we have been exploring body percussions. We have been marching to the beat, recognising a change in tempo (speed) and clapping along to different rhythms including crochets and quavers.