Welcome to Tulips!
Teachers: Mrs Hope & Mrs Bulch
Welcome to Tulips! We want our classroom to be a happy, welcoming place where everyone feels safe, supported and ready to learn. In Tulips, we work hard, help one another and celebrate everyone’s achievements. We are looking forward to a fantastic year together!
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 and children will be tested at the end of the unit.
Our spelling units are different lengths, so please check the spelling sheet for the date of each spelling test. Regular practice at home will really help!
Times Tables
Times tables should be practised daily to build speed and confidence and to prepare children for the Multiplication Tables Check.
Little and often is best – even a few minutes each day makes a 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 and understanding, so please make this part of your child’s everyday routine.
PE – Tuesday
Our PE day is Tuesday. Please make sure children have the correct PE kit in school.
Swimming – Wednesday
Swimming takes place every Wednesday.
Where possible, please send children to school wearing their swimming kit underneath their uniform to make changing quicker and easier.
Please remember to bring a towel every Wednesday.
Resources:
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/menus/multiplication.htm
Food Bank Donations – Thank you
Today, the Trussell Trust Gateshead Foodbank came to collect the kind donations from the school community. The food will be packaged and given out next week, helping to feed some of the 10,000 people who use the service in Gateshead each year. School Councillors met...
Singing in LKS2
This afternoon, LKS2 started their music topic of Life on the Tyne. They started singing songs about the keel row and the industrial times of the North East's past. Children began learning the songs and thinking about pitch and pace. Once we were more confident with...
Computing in LKS2
The last few weeks, in computing, LKS2 have been learning all about branching databases. We began the topic by looking at yes and no questions and figuring out how to sort objects into different groups. Now confident with this, we were ready to have a go at creating a...
Windy Nook Elects School Council
Children across Key Stage 2 have been preparing speeches in their bid to represent their classmates on the School Council. Some fantastic and confident pitches were made and all children should be proud of the courage and clarity they showed. In the end, each class...
Walking Water Investigation
During our first week back after the holidays the children have been set a couple of whole school science challenges. All children this week have thought about what science is to them and have either drawn pictures, written captions or short sentences to describe what...
Hello Summer Happiness
A summer holiday workbook created to help empower you to manage your own happiness by developing your emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence means understanding your feelings and knowing how to handle them in a good way. It's like being a feelings detective...
Water Safety Day
Please click on the link below for further information or should you require a paper version then please just ask at reception: water safety day
Athletics Festival
we had an amazing day at Gateshead schools partnership athletics festival at Gateshead stadium. Lots of semi finalists and finalists, a silver medal and lots of smiles! well done everyone. Article 24: You have the right to the best quality healthcare. Article 29:...
Windy Winners!
A huge well do to all of our winners this week. Top Sportsperson and our monthly value: Top Friendship. Windy Winners 27.6.24 Class Value - Friendship Top Sportsperson Dragonflies Haroon Thomas Ladybirds Millie Layla Robins Liliana Louie Owls Enya George...
Olympics Day!
On Wednesday, we held an Olympics Day to celebrate the upcoming summer games. As part of this, children all came dressed in the colours of an Olympic country and made flags and banners in class for our final parade. They also took part in a number of physical...
Sports Day 2024!
On Monday, we were lucky enough to have our sports day. 3 representatives from the GSSP came into set up and run the day with a range of exciting activities. In the morning, KS1 began to earn points for their house teams with the Rubies gaining the most in the morning...
Summer Cup Champions
Well done to our football team who won the Felling FA Y3/4 Summer cup The boys battled hard against some very good opposition winning all of their games in the final. They played some fantastic football, Scored great goals and defended with quality and determination....