Welcome to Robins
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School Bags: Children should bring their school bag every day.
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Toys: Please check that your child is not bringing toys into school.
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Reading Diaries: These should be brought in daily along with their ditty or reading book.
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Reading Rewards: On Fridays, we count how many times your child has read at home.
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3 times = 1 reward point
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More than 3 times = 1 reward point and a dip in the prize box
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Please make sure reading is recorded in their diary.
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Spellings: Children are given a set of spellings to learn each week.
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These are displayed on the classroom window and in homework books.
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Key Words: Your child has a set of key words to learn in their bag.
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Once they can read the words fluently, we celebrate their achievement and they are given the next level of words.
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Homework Books: Sent home on Fridays and should be returned by the following Wednesday.
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PE Day: Friday
Children should wear: -
Black shorts or joggers
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White t-shirt
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Trainers
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School jumper
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Labelling Clothes: Please ensure all jumpers, cardigans, and coats are clearly labelled with your child’s name.
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Lunch: If your child is having a school lunch, please ensure that payment is now done on Arbor. Please check Arbor for regular updates and information.
Science Club Fun!
In the Spring term, some pupils in Year 2 took part in Science Club. Over the 6 weeks, the children investigated many different scientific concepts and carried out investigations such as, astronaut food tasting, creating bouncy balls, growing and measuring our own...
Windy Winners!
Well done to our Top Scientist and Attitude winners this week! 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 Attitude Top Scientist Dragonflies Lucy Enya Ladybirds ...
Robins and Owls homework
This week’s homework 10.3.23 for Year 1 is CGP Grammar Punctuation and Spelling page 13 Children to return completed for Friday 17.3.23 Thanks Miss Thompson & Mrs Short Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go...
Open wide -the dentists are in!
The children learned all about looking after their teeth properly today. They practised cleaning model mouths, learned about sugary foods and drink and even role-played a bit of dentistry themselves. We may have some future dentists amongst us! Article...
KS1 walk around our local area of Windy Nook
The children enjoyed taking a walk around our local area of Windy Nook. They discussed on their walk all of the human features that they could see such as paths, roads, shops, houses and churches as well as physical features of trees, grass, bushes and rocks. Article...
Sorting properties of 3D shapes
Year 1 have been investigating the properties of 3D shapes. They have worked hard looking at different ways that they could be sorted such as curved faces, more than 8 vertices, square faces or triangle faces. Article 13: You have the right to find out things and...
Windy Winners!
Congratulations to all of our winners this week. Top Reader and Top Effort. Well done everyone! Class Top Effort Top Reader Dragonflies Ayla Poppy Ladybirds Gracie Theodore Robins Harry Faye Owls Elsa Bobby Nightingales Charlie Myla ...
Owls & Robins Year 1 Homework w.e. 03.03.23
This week’s homework 03.03.23 for Year 1 is CGP Maths pages 7 & 8 Ordering Numbers. Children to return completed for Friday 10.03.23 Thanks Mrs Short & Miss Thompson Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to...
Pitch Perfect
In music, we have been learning about pitch. We have been identifying whether we can hear a high or a low pitch. 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.
In the hot seat!
Year 1 have enjoyed reading Mr Wolf's Pancakes this week. We thought about questions we would like to ask Mr Wolf if we ever met him and wrote these down. Then, we took turns to play the role of Mr Wolf and answer these questions. Article 12: you have the right to an...
World Book Day 2023!
On Thursday 2nd March, Windy Nook Primary joined schools around the country and around the world to celebrate World Book Day. The idea of this special day is to promote a love of reading and enjoyment of books. We had lots of book-based activities going on in school,...
Working like Matisse
Today we have been looking at the work of Matisse. He did not have pens and paint to work with so used cut and torn paper to make his art We copied his ideas and have made some great pieces of artwork.