Welcome to Nightingale Class

Welcome to Nightingale Class

Welcome to Nightingale class! We are so excited to have you all in year two as you learn more and grow! We will be learning about some amazing things this year, including learning about the great fire of london, how to use maps and of course phonics, maths and writing! We can't wait! Mrs Hollidge and Mr Munro


Key news and updates:

Here is our overview for term four:

Term 4 Week 4

We had great fun exploring the planetarium today. We were able to go inside the planetarium and find out about what life would be like as an astronaut in the international space station. It was really interesting to find out facts about being an astronaut. Children then have the opportunity to look at the nighttime sky and discover the constellations and the planets and where they are in the sky. It was a wonderfully immersive experience and the children really enjoyed it.

Term 4 Week 3

More clay fun!

We have been getting on so well this week with all of our work. All of our quizzes are finished now, which is amazing. The children worked so hard all week to complete their quizzes and I am so proud of them. We continued to develop our skills with clay this week as well. The children have been learning how to create interesting patterns on tile shaped clay ready for their design of their clay house next week. The children use the skills of, applying slip to the clay model to add pieces and they also learn to impress objects into the clay to make different shapes. The children are really looking forward to designing their own houses next week.

Term 4 week 2 

This week, the children have been busy writing stories and taking part in learning how to count and divide in 5s. We also have been busy creating pinch pots in Art and using scoring to create different textures. We even experimeted with slip and attaching different pieces of clay. Well done on all of your hard work this week, Nightingales. 

 Term 3 week 6 

Michael Rosen performance poetry




Term 3 Week 5

In our PSHE lessons this week we have been looking at the importance of having dreams and goals. The children spent some time thinking about gardens of their dreams. We then spent some time creating birds for our gardens of our dreams. It was a lovely activity where the children had to work collaboratively as a group to create a group of beautiful birds that would fill the gardens of their dreams.

Term 3 Week 4

We have had such great fun in our DT lesson this week. The children have had the opportunity to look and see how pivots, linkages and leavers are made. The children then had an opportunity to create their own linkages and make them move. Last week, the children created a designed their own monsters. They then took a tally chart on which of their two monsters their friends liked the best. This week they were able to take the winning design and create their moving monster with it using the linkages that were created a few weeks the children really enjoyed creating their monsters and making them move using the design brief that they had created the week before.

Term 3 Week 3

We had fun in our PSHE lesson this week. We have been looking at dreams and goals. The children were given a choice of four different goals to achieve. They had 10 minutes to try to achieve these goals and then perform them to the class. They were challenging and the children tried really hard to complete them. The goals were: learn the macarena, count to 20 in 2s in French, count to 10 in Mandarin Chinese or learn the first two verses of the Owl and the Pussycat. They had really good fun doing this and learning about how difficult some tasks are. 

Term 3 Week 2

In our DT lessons this term, we are looking at how to make moving mosters. The children have been looking at pivots and linkages. We had a go at making our own linkages and pivots in our lesson in preperation for making our.monsters in a few weeks time. Here are the results!

Term 3 Week 1

What an exciting first week we've had back after Christmas! The children have settled in well and are raring to go in our new term. We had the excitement of Bath Rugby come in on Friday to take the children for a session. This will be happening every Friday morning for this term up until half term. Just a reminder that PE sessions are on Tuesday and Friday this term. Here are some photos of the children learning to be excellent rugby players.

Term 3 overview

Here is the overview for this term.

Weekly updates

Week 4

A wonderful time with parents reading in the class!

Just to say a great big thank you to all the parents who came to read with the children in our class on Thursday. The children really enjoyed listening to stories. We shared some lovely books and had a really fantastic time enjoying the wonder of reading lovely books.

Week 3

Learning about algorithms.

We have been learning about algorithms in our computing lessons this week. Last week we had great fun guiding each other around the hall pretending to be robots. The children had a fantastic time making their friends go left, right, forwards and backwards. Today, we had a go at writing down some simple algorithms for our Beebots. The children then had a go at programming their Beebots to follow these instructions. 

Term 2 Week 1+2

Anti-Bullying Week. Choosing Respect!

This week is Anti-Bullying Week an we have been looking at the important theme of showing respect. We looked at the Anti-Bullying website and watched a video on what it means to respect people. We then acted out some scenarios, thinking about what was the respectful thing to do in that situation. The children had some great ideas on how to show respect.

What a great start back we've had! It's been an action-packed couple of weeks with lots of exiting learning, bonfire night, remembrance day, the carnival, odd socks day, the welly ramble - you name it, we've been doing it! 


In maths we have been learning to add two 2 digit numbers together! We have been using lots of conrete materials to help us understand this - see if your child can show you how to add 25 and 13 together! 


In maths we have been looking at creating different textures with our painting! We went into the playground looking for different textures to paint with to recreate a series of textures such as bumpy, smooth and prickly! 


Term 1 Week 7

We have been thinking a lot about our futures this week and the children had great fun thinking about their gifts and talents and how they might want to use these in future jobs. The children then had a go at drawing what possible jobs they might have in the future. here they are below.

Term 1 Week 6: A fantastic library trip!

We had great fun today walking to the library. We had some stories read to us and then we had a chance to choose some library books to take back to the school. What a fun time we had!

Term 1 Week 5: Dragon Machines!

We have been continuing our dragon-themed English this week by looking at the wonderful story of the Dragon Machine by Helen Ward. The children have been thinking about the Dragon Machine and had a go at doing some creative writing. They came up with some AMAZING descriptive writing about the Dragon Machine! Here are some samples below.


Term 1 Week 4 - Voting for our School Council!

This week, the children all learned about democracy as we discussed our roles for the School Council. The children who wanted to be candidates all had to stand up and give a speech about why they should be chosen as the class representative, then the children went to the polling station (the hall!) and cast their votes. They really enjoyed the experience. 

Term 1 Week 3

This week Nightingale's class have been working really hard. In Maths, we created our own human number lines to physically show how ones from 1-10 fit in between 0-10 on a tens number line from 0 - 100. 

In art we looked at texture and created images using a variety of mediums and mark making skills to show different textures. We used bark and sticks to inspire our creations. 

In science, we had an action packed live lesson where we worked scientifically to see the chemical reaction that takes place between bicarbonate of soda and a mixture of water, acid and washing up liquid! 

In English, we had a fun lesson where we acted out three separate images from George and the Dragon. We thought about the different characters in the image and how they might be feeling in that freeze frame. This then inspired our descriptive writing later on. 

We have been so impressed with the Nightingales this week as they enter in the middle of term 1. We are noticing that many of them are tired and we would encourage them to get a good nights sleep on a Sunday night! 


Term 1 Week 2

The children had great fun learning about the story of Zacchaeus in our RE today. I acted out the story and the children were very indignant at how badly Zachhaeus behaved! They loved the fact that he changed his ways after meeting with Jesus. Their writing reflected this well. 

Term 1 Week 1

Wow! Welcome back! What a week it has been. We have been recapping lots of our knowledge from last year as well as getting to know one another and getting our heads around being called 'year two' now! We are so proud of how well the nightingales have settled into year two - embracing the new routines and challenges with great resilience and eagerness. We will be hosting a 'meet the teacher' on Monday the 9th of September and you will have an opportunity to see the classroom and to meet both myself and Mr Munro. 

The children have been having great fun learning artistic techniques in our art lesson this week. We tried working with charcoal, experimenting with tone and shade. The children had a great time and produced some amazing pieces of art.