What’s been happening in school?

 

 

• On Wednesday we held a Pop-Up bookshop in school! The children really enjoyed browsing and choosing books to take home and keep!

• All year groups have started their new books in English this week. What are we reading?

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Year 1: Beegu	Year 2: The Baker’s Boy and the Great Fire of London	Year 3: The Iron Man
Year 4: The Adventures of Harris Burdick	Year 5: 1000 Year Old Boy	Year 6: The Last Wild

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Staffing Updates

Miss Banyard our SENDCO is now on Maternity Leave after the arrival of her new baby girl. In her absence, Miss Sharlotte will be SENDCO for the remainder of this academic year.

Mr Smith will be teaching Year 2 Pigeons for the next few weeks whilst Mr Illingworth recovers from surgery on his leg.

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Reading Books

Please send your child to school with their book bag and reading book every day. 

This year we are not using a reading record: we are using an online way of recording our reading called Track My Read. 

If your child has lost or forgotten their log-in details, please let your child’s teacher know.

How to log-in to Track My Read:

To access the site, use this link:

https://trackmyread.org/school/coop-academy-nightingale-180419 

Your child will be given a unique username and password to log-in.

• Go to the unique link provided by the school (on any device with internet access)

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• Bookmark or save the link so that they can easily use the link again and again

• Answer a few simple questions:

  • What did you choose to read? (from a dropdown list including audio book, comic, book etc.)

  • What's the title'?

  • How long did you read for?

  • Did you enjoy it? (a choice of 5 emojis)

Please encourage your child to complete this each time they read anything for fun. They will see different encouraging messages as they report their reading, and they will be contributing to the school’s reading target.

Happy reading!

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This week’s book recommendation

https://www.deyeshigh.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/the_lightning_thief.pdf 

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is a fantastic book for children in years 5 and 6. Percy, who suffers from dyslexia and ADHD, discovers he is a demigod and is accused of stealing Zeus's lightning bolt. He must find the thief to settle the fight between the gods and save his mother.

 

 

 

 

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Attendance

Our attendance target is 96%. We want your children to be in school ALL DAY EVERYDAY! School is open between 8.45am and 3.30pm Monday - Friday. Whatever the weather, we want your children to be in school learning and doing all the great activities the teachers are planning.

The highest attendance classes this week have been:

In Early Years: Sparrows with 90%

In KS1: Peacocks with 94%

In years 3 and 4: Eagles with 94%

In years 5 and 6: Hawks with 95%

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What’s coming up?

• 16th November - school is closed for a staff training day

• 8th and 9th December - Parent’s Evening