This year for Children in Need we came into school wearing Superhero costumes… from Spider-Man to nurses, parents to princesses; the children made a wonderful effort with all of their costumes / pudsey merchandise. We would like to send a big thank you to everyone who supported our fundraising for Children in Need. We had fun learning about working together to make a difference to children’s lives all around the UK. As a school we raised £89 towards this worthy cause.

It was so much fun taking part in the gladiator challenges on the BBC children in need live stream. We added a nettlesworth twist to the challenges and held our own games in the school hall. The children’s highlight, by far, was the teacher challenges at the end of a wonderful morning 🦸🏻

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to the children who have caught their teacher’s eye with outstanding work and earning their Head Teacher Award.

We are very proud of your efforts.

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Well done to Archie and his younger sister Tilly who both have been working very hard in enhancing their Horse Riding skills and earning a rosette for their efforts. We can definitely see a potential future career for you both in working with animals – in-particular, horses.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to the new Maths Ambassadors who will be undertaking the role of helping their peers from around the school in their maths challenges. These children will undertake the role of teachers and help others to solve calculations and conceptual problems. They can’t wait to participate in their first task – Maths Day 2024.

Rights Respecting Gold demonstrated by all the children.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to all our children who have accessed their Lexia this week and achieved their next levelled certificate. We are all very proud of you.

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.