Everyone had a lovely time at the Christmas Fair. There were cake stalls, games, toys and of course the team colour raffle!

Thank you to Nettlesworth School Community Group for organising this fantastic afternoon.

What fabulous raffle prizes have been made with the generous donations from our wonderful children and families; have a look at those hampers👍
The raffle will be drawn this afternoon during the Christmas Fair: please don’t forget to check your tickets as you maybe the lucky winner. Good luck everyone.

Cornerstones Curriculum – Class 5

Design Technology – Food

UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

What a fabulous way to share our Cornerstones topic with the rest of the school. The children of Class 5 worked with our school cook to design a menu based on Mexico and created the perfect meal for all children and staff.
Well done to everyone involved and we all hope today has inspired you to try new foods at home.

A Rights Respecting Gold day for all our wonderful children.

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We are delighted to inform you that we have successfully received re-accreditation of Rights Respecting Gold Award. Please see below message from assessors and report.

Nettlesworth Primary School RRSA GOLD 16Nov21

 

Thank you so much for hosting our visit to Nettlesworth last month.  Jilly and I had a wonderful time hearing from you, children and staff about the fantastic rights work you are doing in school and the positive impact that learning about rights is having on outcomes for your children.

I am very delighted to confirm that the Accreditation and Standards Committee agree that sufficient evidence was provided

in our report to reaccredit Nettlesworth Primary as a Unicef UK Gold: Rights Respecting School.

Please pass on our congratulations to your pupils, colleagues, governors and parents for their contribution and commitment to RRSA and for your collective achievement in reaching the highest stage of Unicef UK’s Rights Respecting Schools Award, Gold: Rights Respecting. I hope you have a wonderful time celebrating your success.

Letter to Kevan Jones, MP

In Geography this half term we have learnt all about our local area. We talked about what we like and dislike about Nettlesworth. We noticed that one of the things that we don’t like is the smelly dog poo! So we decided to try and do something about it. We have written a letter to our MP, Kevan Jones, in the hope he can help us solve this smelly problem!

UNCRC Article 12 – right to a say in all matters affecting them

Letter to KJ

 

Update …

 

Further to your correspondence to Durham County Council dated 14 December in which you detail Ms Aspinal’s concerns regarding the installation of a dog waste bin near Nettlesworth Primary School.

Firstly, I am sorry to hear that irresponsible people are not picking up after their pets. Regarding your suggestion to install a dog waste bin near the school, I can confirm that we can install a dog waste bin next to a lamppost on the grass verge outside the school grounds. If this location is acceptable we can arrange for the bin to be installed.

If Ms Aspinal could confirm that she is happy with the suggestion, we can then make arrangements to carry out the work.

Yours sincerely

Jeff Talbot
Clean and Green Manager

Today we had our annual whole school tree decorating morning –

We all came together in assembly with our friends from each year and adults in school, we had Christmas music playing and every child in the school put a toy bauble on the Christmas tree before the big switch on. We then had a magical Christmas poem read to us by Mrs Lee!

Today EYFS & KS1 watched a one woman show who performed the amazing panto ‘The Naughtiest Elf’! The children giggled from tart to finish and it was a show to truly remember… and kick start the festivities well and truly at Nettlesworth Primary School 🙂

Huge thank you to Matt from Big Foot Arts, who spent the day working with our Key Stage 2 children to create a ‘play in a day’ – an amazing retell of The Grinch 🙂

All of the rest of the school watched and it was truly amazing – well done 🙂

 

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