Well done to the children who have earnt a TT Rockstar certificate this week for the highest amount of correct answers! Keep up the hard work.

UNCRC Article 24 – Right to the best possible health.

Well done to our first aiders, who have completed their first aid course with Mrs Hill.

UNCRC Article 29 – Goals of education

Well done to all of the children this week who have worked extremely hard to earn their Headteacher Award, keep up the good work!

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

Class 2

1st Place –

2nd Place –

3rd Place –

Class 3

1st Place – Reece with Mandalorian

2nd Place – Thomas with Roar

3rd Place – Ava with Stitch

Class 4

1st Place –

2nd Place –

3rd Place –

Class 5

1st Place –

2nd Place –

3rd Place –

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!

Class 1

Class 1 went right back to the stone ages and the children learned about how people used to live many, many years ago. We looked at mark making and places people would love – it was very different to our life today! We created fire torches to compliment our wonderful costumes 🐆

Class 2

Class 2’s theme was Kings and Queens, learning about the current British Monarchy.

Class 3

Class 3’s theme were the Romans and learnt about the way of life, what happened when Pompeii erupted and the differences between the regions of the Roman Empire.

Class 4

Class 4 dressed up as Vikings! We read a Viking story about a young girl named Tilda, uncovered Viking equivalent fractions using longship sails, discussed the Pagan gods and goddess the Vikings worshipped, created Viking shields and loved showing off our costumes.

Class 5

Class 5 learnt about the significant figures of history who sought out new countries and ventures of the world.

UNCRC Article 31 – children have the right to take part in artistic activities.

We were incredibly lucky to have a visit from the Mayor of Durham this afternoon, along with her bodyguards.

The children in Class 1 were fascinated at the jewels and clothing worn by the Mayor and were excited to perform her an action song using makaton signs. Class 2 performed a song in French that they have been practising this half term and Classes 3 and 4, performed; Three Little Birds using sign language. The children in class 5 ended the afternoon by sharing their work they have been doing with Durham Business Enterprise – she was blown away by the designs and detail put in and said she will pop by their market stall selling their products this weekend in Durham city. ✨

UNCRC Article 12 – every child has the right to be heard.