UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to all our children who have been working very hard and have earned their Head Teacher Award. We are very proud of all your efforts.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to all our children who have accessed their TT Rockstars this week and earned your certificates. We are all very proud of you.

UNCRC Article 12 – right to opinions

Well done to everyone who participated in our UK Parliamentary Coffee Morning. We were delighted to welcome our family and friends to view the many debates we have had during the last few weeks and conduct further debates in the hall whilst enjoying coffee, juice and biscuits.

We also enjoyed our Fair Trade tuckshop and our ambassadors helping to organise the stall.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all: we loved debating with our adults.

UNCRC Article Link: 38 – Governments must do everything they can to protect and care for children affected by war.

On the 11th day of the 11th month; on the 11th hour Nettlesworth Primary School got together to take part in our annual Remembrance Day assembly.

This year the children have worked incredibly hard in their classes and in assemblies to pay respects to those who fought for us in WW1 and those who are still working to create a safe world for us to live in.

We have created a gallery outside of the wonderful artwork and had a remembrance service in school on Monday where we held a minute’s silence.

Thank you for all of your donations to the charity; Royal British Legion.

Class 1 Remembers…

Class 1 created some wonderful handprint poppy paintings and watercolour poppy fields in our Art lesson. We also visited the local area and counted all of the Poppies that had been put up by our Parish – we loved the wreath and soldier silhouette. We added our paintings to the whole school gallery on the fence too!

Finally, after our Remembrance service we baked Poppy biscuits and took them home to enjoy with our families 🙂

Class 2 Remembers…

Class 3 Remembers…

Class 4 Remembers…

To commemorate Remembrance Day, we created some beautiful collage pieces to display outside of the school entrance. We used a range of materials for our designs to create eye capturing poppies. Following on from Mrs Lee’s beautiful remembrance service in assembly, we donated money to The Royal British Legion on our giant poppy. We’ve been working hard in learning about the importance of Remembrance Day in our History session this week. Lest we forget.

Class 5 Remembers…

In preparation for our Parliamentary Coffee Morning, members of the Rights Respecting Council, along with the help of Art Ambassador Hannah, have been creating some beautiful handmade beaded keyrings to sell alongside our Fairtrade sweet treats.

Fairtrade Ambassador Ava, along with Hannah, helped Mrs Nicholson in selling our products at the Coffee Morning and parents and carers were wowed by our crafting skills!

A big thank you to everyone who helped create keyrings during our Rights Respecting Council meetings!

UNCRC Article 31 – children have the right to take part in a wide range of artistic activities.

UNCRC Article 29 – Goals of Education

The children had a fantastic afternoon, celebrating Maths Day. Each class enjoyed two sessions, led by different teachers, taking part in a range of maths activities. A huge well done to all of the Maths Ambassadors who were a huge help in each class!

Class 1

Class 1 impressed Mrs Aspinall with their counting skills. They recognised numbers up to 10 and then practised their number formation1 Well done Class 1. And a massive thanks to the fantastic maths ambassadors for all of their help.

Class 1 enjoyed learning all about number and counting to 3 with Miss Grimes. The children were challenged to find objects around the classroom and then count them together. They then enjoyed completing some challenging maths questions with Chloe and Zander and were amazing at counting! Well done Class 1.

Class 2

Class 2 had a super exciting session with Mrs Morton where we practised our big body maths skills and got active with maths. She was very pleased to see how much our maths skills have progressed since being in Class 1! We then worked with the Maths Maths Ambassadors to solve conceptual word problems linking to number bonds – You have blown me away Class 2 🙂

Class 2 worked hard with Mrs Edwards to look at different ways of adding numbers! We first used our fingers to count to 10, 20 and beyond! Then, working with the Maths Ambassadors, the children began to add numbers together using number lines – starting from various points! Well done, Class 2!

Class 3

Class 3 worked wonderfully well with Mr. Graham to solve calculations using at least 2 different written methods. They then applied their skills to solve conceptual problems and explained their working out to their friends and class. A big thankyou to the Maths Ambassadors who worked very well as additional teachers – definitely potential careers in education.

Class 3 worked incredibly hard to explore ways of multiplying and dividing with Mrs Edwards and the Maths Ambassadors. We rehearsed the times tables we know before introducing the 3 times table into our calculations! Then, we discovered how many number sentences we could produce from one simple multiplication. To finish off, we had a scavenger hunt in the classroom to find physical representations of our calculations. Well done, Class 3!

Class 4

Class 4 worked super hard with Mrs Aspinall to show off their multiplication and division skills. They used their knowledge to solve mathematical problems. We finished off with a game of quick fire times tables work. Again a massive thanks to our maths ambassadors!

Class 4 worked fabulously well with Mr. Graham to enhance their multiplication and division skills using at least 2 different written methods to solve calculations. They then applied their skills to solve 3 conceptual problems and explained their reasoning skills to their groups. Well done to the Maths Ambassadors who shone through with their explanations and teaching skills.

Class 5

Class 5 worked with Miss Grimes to test their quick maths. They had lots of fun playing a game of countdown, with the help of Dallas and Karen. After choosing their team names, it was a competition to see which team could use all 4 operations to reach the number shown on the board. Miss Grimes was so impressed by their mental maths skills!

Class 5 took on a COJO mission with Mrs Morton right the way across the Saharan Sands. They had to practise communication, teamwork and show incredible determination to get across the self built obstacle course and solve the conceptual problems. It was wonderful to see the variance in their methods and the beaming smiles on their faces! Well done Class 5 🙂

UNCRC Article 29 – Develop your talents.

This half term, our talented artist is Dallas. Dallas created a beautiful piece of artwork using tracing paper and a variety of colours.

Well done Dallas!

Today we enjoyed a taster football session with Caitlin from the SSP.

We took part in lots of different activities and learned lots of new skills.

We can’t wait to put them into practise! 🙂

Class 1’s Session…

Class 2’s Session…

Class 3’s Session…

Class 4’s Session…

Class 5’s Session…

Thank you to Sarah and Mya for providing a spook – tastic lunch for us to all celebrate Halloween!