UNCRC Article 28 Every Child has the right to an education.

Mrs Morton and the EYFS team are excited to share how wonderfully our new Reception children have settled into school life. Their enthusiasm, curiosity, and cheerful smiles have brought a lovely energy to our classroom. From exploring new routines to making new friends, they’ve embraced every part of their learning journey with confidence and joy. A huge thank you to our families for their support during this important transition — we’re excited for all the adventures ahead!

Article  29: We all have the right to develop our personalities, talents and abilities.

Over three days this week, the children across the whole school were spell-bound as they were visited by the illustrator and author Liz Million.

Liz writes, illustrates and publishes her own books as well as illustrating for other authors and working in schools. She talked to the children about her choices through education and how it led her to her present career – despite not thinking that it was possible as a child even though she always loved art.

She showed the children how she used things like ‘tacos’, ‘potatoes’ and ‘door arches’ to help to get the shapes for her characters and the children were amazed at how quickly she could come up with a finished picture. What was even more amazing, was the images that the children produced following her tips and ideas.

Throughout the week, all of the children and staff were amazed by the enthusiasm of Liz and she truly inspired everybody!

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Huge thank you to everyone who came along to our Easter crafts afternoon – the children had so much fun and it was lovely to welcome you all in school before the Easter break 🙂

Huge congratulations to every child and their wonderful egg creation that they have been working hard on in school this year. Every child received a prize for their efforts, donated by Nettlesworth School Community Group and the winners received something EGG-stra special.

As usual the competition was judged by 2 children from a different class and no names were on the egg creations to make sure it was fair – big well done to the judges too for standing up on stage and announcing your reasons for the 3 top prizes.

Class 1

1st Place – Bobby with Gruffy

2nd Place – Joshua with Sam the Dinosaur

3rd Place – Jos with Spiderman

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Class 3

1st Place – Reece with Mandalorian

2nd Place – Thomas with Roar

3rd Place – Ava with Stitch

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Huge congratulations to Bobby in class 1 who went for football trials at Willington Youth FC. He was proud to win a medal for his determination and resilience throughout his first session. He was excited to share that he had earned a place on the training squad in preparation for the team when he moves up into Year 1!

Huge congratulations to the children who have achieved 100% attendance from September and never had a day off school – we are very proud of you all!

We would like to applaud the children who have achieved 96% or more since the beginning of the academic year too – Keep this up!

We are so proud of Isla in Class 1 for her amazing achievements in Swimming. She has received her Stage 1 certificate and badge – Amazing!

This week we celebrated World Book Day.  This annual celebration of authors, illustrators, books and the joy of reading is one of the highlights of our year! Class 1 had so much fun taking part ion a day of storytelling & reading for pleasure – celebrating texts of all genres.  Our assembly focused upon the importance of reading and we had a special visit from 2 sneaky burglars, a cat in a hat and a ‘Thing’ who caused a whole lot of mischief! 

Thank you to all our parents and carers for supporting the day and sending children into school dressed as a favourite book character.  All staff joined in for the occasion too – it was a wonderful day for everyone 🙂

Today we had an exciting day where all of the staff and children came to school wearing their pyjamas, to help fund research into less toxic and kinder treatments for childhood cancer patients.

We looked at all of the hard work and different career pathways that contribute to medicine in this country and how they all play a part in helping find cures to many different types of cancer. Together we raised £68, thank you for all of your donations!

This week in school we have celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week raising money and awareness to support the work of the amazing charity Place2be. The campaign this year aims to empower children and young people across the UK to embrace self-awareness and explore what it means to them.

This year’s theme was ‘Know yourself, Grow yourself’ and all of the children were invited to come into school on Friday in clothes which make them feel most ‘like them’. It was great to see the children and staff expressing themselves in their own unique way; from fancy dress to football kits, dresses to pyjamas.

Each class also had bespoke activities in their PSHCE & SEAL lessons linking to mental health and on Friday afternoon we celebrated with treats and the movie Inside Out.

For more resources accessible from home please follow the link below:

Children’s Mental Health week 2025 and Mental Health Awareness week 2025 – BBC Teach

Class 1

We have been learning about emotions and how we cope with them as well as talking about what makes us feel different ways at home and at school. We used the visual representations of the characters from the film ‘Inside Out’ to help us recognise what these feelings may look or feel like.

Class 3

Class enjoyed coming in their own clothes, that allow us to express ourselves. We have been talking about our feelings in our PSHCE lesson and times when we have felt happy, sad, frustrated and joy etc. We then had a lovey afternoon watching Inside Out!