Welcome to Snowdrops
Teacher: Mr Hill
Welcome to Snowdrops! We want our classroom to be a safe, positive and encouraging environment where everyone feels valued, supported and ready to learn. In Snowdrops, we work together, listen to one another and celebrate everyone’s achievements. We believe that everyone has a voice, and we encourage children to share their ideas, ask questions and have confidence in their learning.
We are looking forward to a fantastic year filled with exciting learning, new experiences and lots of fun!
Homework
Homework is set every Friday and should be completed and returned by the following Friday.
Spellings
Spellings will be sent home at the beginning of each spelling unit. Some spelling units will last for a number of weeks, so children may keep the same spelling list for more than one week.
Please check the spelling sheet carefully for information about the spelling test date. Regular practice at home will really help children to develop their spelling skills and confidence.
Times Tables
Times tables should be practised regularly to build speed, accuracy and confidence with multiplication and division facts.
Little and often is best – even a few minutes of practice each day can make a big difference!
Reading
Children should read at home every day for a minimum of 10–15 minutes.
Daily reading is essential for developing children’s fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and love of reading, so please encourage your child to make reading part of their everyday routine.
PE – Thursday
Our PE day is Thursday. Please make sure children have the correct PE kit in school.
Resources:
https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://student.readingplus.com/seereader/api/sec/login
https://www.conquermaths.com/login/
https://www.purplemash.com/sch/windy-ne10
Y3/4 Quad kids
Yesterday two teams competed in the Gateshead SSP Quad kids competition at grace college. Everyone competed in a 400m race 50m sprint, Long jump and the howler throw. All points were added together to make a team total. Windy Nook A came 3rd overall out of 25 teams...
Liz Million visits Windy Nook!
Yesterday, Liz Million came to Windy Nook for the day to share her amazing knowledge on illustrating. She worked with the whole school in workshops across the day. Liz began to share her story to the children about how she is from Darlington, went to university in...
Identification Keys for Amazonian Animals in LKS2
This week in science, LKS2 have been linking their learning to their topic of 'Rocking Rainforests' and have been creating identification keys for different Amazonian animals. First, we recapped some of the animals that live in the Amazon rainforest and the different...
Y4 Tennis
well done to our tennis team who won silver at Cardinal Hume School. The team competed against 8 other schools to win a medal. The team showed great individual efforts winning their games and team competitions which all counts towards the total by the end. A real team...
Online Safety Parent Information Session
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Cricket Tasters
On Friday, we were very lucky to have Mr Mawson back in school to deliver some cricket taster sessions. Mr Mawson now works for Durham Cricket and came in to give the children a taster of a cricket session. He did a range of different activities and games with all...
LKS2 take on cricket!
This term, LKS2 are learning all about cricket. In our first lesson this week, we practised a mini game to see what skills we already know. We focussed on assessing how far we can run until the ball returns to the wicket stumps. It was impressive how many children...
Easter Service at St Albans
Once again our children excelled at St Alban's Church for our Easter service. Everything from musicians, Sign Squad, Singing and especially the Year 5 children who narrated the service was excellent. We would like to that St Alban's Church and Rev. Danie for allowing...
Y3/4 Futsal Winners
A group of our Year 3/4 children were chosen to attend Heworth Grange school, to take part in a futsal competition. Our teams played amazingly well, scoring goals for fun scoring goals for fun all afternoon, one of our teams managed to make it all the way to the...
Art around the world!
In LKS2, this term, we have been looking at art for our topic and in particular, focussing on the skills of a range of artists from all over the world. We began our topic by using a map to find four figure grid reference for the places that artists such as Picasso,...
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 ...
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...