On Friday 17th November, we celebrated Children in Need Day. Our Rights Respecting Council & Sports Leaders arranged some SPOT-acular activities for each classroom to be involved in to raise money for disadvantaged children and young people in the UK. Thank you to everyone in our school family for coming into school in non-uniform, spots or something yellow and donating money. We are overwhelmed with your generosity!  Thank you again for supporting such an important cause 🙂

On Friday 11th November, Nettlesworth Primary School gathered together to pay our respects to all those brave soldiers with a service including two minutes of silence, readings and poems.

We decorated the fence outside of the school with our artwork and writing that we have been working on in classes.

Today, Elaine, the Oral Hygienist, came to talk to us about the importance of keeping our teeth clean.  She talked about different foods, which can be eaten on their own as snacks and those that need to be eaten as part of a meal.  She showed us how to brush our teeth properly and explained what a dentist does when we visit their dental practice.  We role-played as dentists and dental nurses.  Elaine gave us new toothbrushes to take home.

Today we had lots of fun celebrating the end of our topic; Marvellous Me with our family. We worked with Stacey from STAR’s community group to make pizza portraits and read the story, ‘This is me’ before playing in our favourite classroom areas with our favourite people 🙂

 

UNCRC Article 29: Every child has the right to an education that develops their personality, talents and abilities to the full. 

Today we had a visit from Nurse Louise who works in a big hospital near Newcastle. She came to work with Class 1 who are working on the topic ‘Marvellous Me/People who help us’ but also worked with children who are interested in a career in medicine and healthcare.

UNCRC Article 24 – Health and Health Services

A wonderful effort by the children from Class 5 who demonstrated fabulous Rights Respecting ethos in their charitable work for Crisis Support. Our children donated money to participate in a variety of activities including shelter building; fashion parade and soup kitchen to raise funds for the charity.

well done to all our wonderful children and to the staff who also endured the sleepover!

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to all our children who have worked very hard to impress their teachers and achieved their Head Teacher Award.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to all our children who have accessed their TT Rockstars this week and achieved their certificates.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

What a wonderful morning we have all had when we welcomed our families into school to share and participate in a variety of activities to celebrate UK Parliamentary Day.

We explored photos of the Houses of Parliament; constructed the Elizabethan Tower; gave personal views on parliamentary issues and had live debates concerning children and school.

Thank you ever so much to our wonderful families who all enjoyed spending time with us during debate and having coffee, tea and treats.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children and families today.

UNCRC Article 28 – Right to an education. 

What a fabulous day our children have had participating in their Autumn Term Maths Day 2023. The teachers were very excited to teach conceptual problems based on Calculation to 2 different classes over the course of the afternoon. We have some fabulous mathematicians in our school and it was lovely to see all the children excel in their work.

Well done everyone.

Class 1

Class 1 had lots of fun, working with Mrs Aspinall and Miss Grimes. With Miss Grimes, the children worked hard to count sweets. Miss Grimes was amazed by their amazing counting skills and their number knowledge. With Mrs Aspinall, the children joined in with a Super-Movers and made towers of up to 3 blocks.

Class 2

Class 2 had a great time working with Mrs Hill. The children worked hard to answer calculation questions – some adding and even some subtracting! Mrs Hill was blown away by their methods and loved how they used their number lines to help.

Class 3

Class 3 have worked very hard with Mr. Graham solving conceptual problems using addition and subtraction. We even used the Part, Part, Whole model to enhance our reasoning skills.

Rights respecting gold ethos by all the children when they explained their mathematical thinking to solve missing numbers.

Class 3 had a fun time working with Mrs Hill. The children worked hard to answer calculation questions in as many different ways as possible – even using the inverse operation to check their answers!

Class 4

Class 4 have worked very hard with Mr. Graham solving conceptual problems using the 4 functions – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We used our application skills by explaining our workings to the rest of the class as teachers.

Rights respecting gold ethos by all the children when they explained their mathematical thinking to solve missing

Class 4 worked hard with Mrs Aspinall to become real life teachers! Children worked in groups to teach their peers how to solve a range of calculations. Well done Class 4!

 

Class 5

Class 5 worked hard with Mrs Morton and Miss Grimes, solving word problems involving all four operations. They worked hard as a group and gave each other challenges to complete.