This week in school the children have been focusing on the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III, throughout the curriculum in different subjects, assemblies and after-school clubs. It has been a fantastic build up to the King’s coronation ceremony which will take place on Saturday 6 May 2023, 11am at Westminster Abbey in London. On Friday 5th May 2023 the children and staff were invited to come into school wearing red, white and blue clothing to mark this amazing event that will be wrote in the History books for many years to come.

Each child will receive a commemorative coin for King Charles III 🙂

The coronation of the new Sovereign is an occasion for pageantry and celebration, but it is also a solemn religious ceremony that has remained essentially the same over a thousand years. For the last 900 years, the English coronation ceremony has usually taken place at Westminster Abbey in London. The service is conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, as it has almost always been since the Norman Conquest in 1066. For more details about the ceremony are available on the royal.uk website.

Part of the ceremony will focus on St Edward’s Crown, the crown historically used at the moment of coronation and last worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her Coronation in 1953. It was made for Charles II in 1661, as a replacement for the medieval crown which had been melted down in 1649.

Please see the PowerPoint for more information: Coronation-Ceremony-Assembly

Here are some of our highlights from this week in School:

Article of the Week Article 6

Hello, This week we focus on every child’s right to life, survival and development – Article 6. Every child has the right to life and governments must do what they can to ensure that children survive and develop to their fullest. Health, education, food and clean water are essential but this pack will help you explore with your class different areas of support and assistance that need to be in place to ensure that children and young people can thrive. This pack has lots of activities for early years, primary and secondary learners and we would welcome your feedback or examples of the work you have done related to this pack – feel free to email us or share on our Facebook group!

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Inclusion Quality Mark Re-Assessment 2023 and Centre of Excellence 2023

We are very proud to have been awarded this prestigious quality mark with Centre of Excellence Status which reinforces the work that we do to ensure that every child in our school is valued and has their education directly tailored to their learning needs.  It represents the fact that we are a fully inclusive school who promote the social, emotional and academic well being of all of our pupils.

You can read the full report from the Quality Mark assessor by clicking on the link below.

Nettlesworth Primary School Report – April 2023

 

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

A fabulous well done to Harrison who has shown a Rights Respecting Gold attitude all year maintaining dedication and commitment to succeed in his Golf. All his hard work has paid off as he has been selected to represent Chester le Street Youth Team and Durham County.

A potential Future Career Harrison; we are very proud of you.

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

fabulous well done to Marcus and his football team for making their way to the final of the cup and actually winning the whole tournament.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all the players, with a potential future career for our Marcus.

We are all very proud of you.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

A massive well done to all our children who have really caught their teacher’s eye and earned their Head Teacher Award. We are all very proud of you.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

A massive well done to all our children who accessed their Lexia this week and achieved their next Level certificates.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

A massive well done to all our children who accessed their TT Rockstars and achieve their certificates.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

What is the Year 4 multiplication tables check?

The multiplication tables check is an online test for pupils in Year 4. Pupils are asked to answer 25 questions on times tables from two to 12. They are given six seconds per question, with three seconds rest between each question, so the test should last less than five minutes. It is very similar to the set-up of Times Tables Rock stars.

Questions about the six, seven, eight, nine, and 12 times tables are likely to come up most often, as these are the hardest for most children to learn. It’s a good idea to focus on these tricky times tables with your child.

First and foremost, the check is about finding out which children are struggling with their times tables so that they can get extra support. It is not a judgement on what your child can do, but a way for the school to know how their teaching is going and to adjust their focus if needed.

When is the check going to happen?

The next trial of the times tables check, open to all schools that want to take part, will take place between 5th–23rd June 2023.  Our school participated in the trial and if your child is in Year 4, then they took the test.

By June 2020, every school will be required to take part in the check by law.

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Article of the Week Article 39

Hello, Article 39 – Recovery from Trauma and Reintegration – has not been covered so far in this series. Conversations about the support needed to recover from the trauma of neglect, abuse, exploitation or torture have to be covered with the utmost sensitivity in class. Despite being a difficult article to cover, we would urge you to incorporate the activities in this pack, where you can and in a way that is appropriate to the context of your learners. As duty bearers, adults have an obligation to let children and young people know about the Convention (Article 42) and that includes the harder, more emotionally difficult articles. We strongly recommend covering these activities in class under the supervision of a teacher and not setting this pack, or activities in this pack, as homework. We would also recommend considering the situations your learners may bring with them into this discussion and have support and safeguarding in place.

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