County Durham Fun and Food programme is providing activities with healthy snacks and meals for children and young people this half term.
All activities are offered through Voluntary and Community Sector partners and schools who will be operating in a Covid secure way. There is a range of activities planned across County Durham.
Find out what’s on in your area at www.durham.gov.uk/FunAndFood
UNCRC Article 29 – Develop a child’s talents
Class 1 had lots of fun working with Papi, we have been working hard this half term to remember how to say ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ in French as well as how to say ‘mam’ and ‘dad’. We did some fantastic role play for greetings and even learned a new little rhyme that we can sing each morning 🙂
A big thank you to our governor Papi for taking the time to come into class to teach us French phrases. In class 2 we are very good at saying ‘Je m’appelle’. Thank you again Papi 😊
We had a lovely visitor for our French lesson this week. Papi was kind enough to come in and teach us all of the French colours. She was so impressed with how class 3 listened and learned the colours. It was an amazing experience for class 3!
In Class 4, we had lots of fun with French picture and word flashcards. Merci Papi.
This half term we have tried hard to read at home at least once a week. Each week we receive a leaf to add to our class beanstalk if we remember! Mrs Aspinall and Mrs Hindmarch promised a chocolate fountain treat if we could reach 60 leaves before half term. Well today we smashed our target and managed 61 leaves a week before our deadline! We were super excited to sample the chocolate fountain 🍫 yummy 😋
If pizza is always your go-to favorite food, your day is finally here; 9th February, is National Pizza Day and to celebrate this we made our own pizzas from scratch! Mrs Morton was sooo happy as pizza is her favourite 🤩
We looked at where in the world Pizza was first invented and found out it was in Naples, Italy!
We also found out that to make the dough rise you need a living thing, called good bacteria, to make the dough grow!
Our favourite part was adding our favourite toppings to the pizza bases …. not forgetting eating them after they were cooked! Mmmmmm delicious 😋🍕👩🍳🇮🇹
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We had a fantastic afternoon celebrating and promoting Schools Football week on Wednesday 9th February.
Earlier in the week the Sports Leaders introduced this week with a whole school assembly. They then held an afternoon of football fun with Mr Beveridge.
Each class had a football task to complete and score points towards their teams total. Sports Leaders kept score and gave our certificates of achievement!
We were pleased to announce the winning team was yellow who then had a go at beating the teachers!
We all had a great afternoon!
UNCRC Article 29 – right to join in a range of activities.
Amazing basketball skills demonstrated this week in multi skills. A special mention to the following children for showing our values throughout the sessions.
UNCRC Article 29 – develop talents
Today in school we had our very own Internet Safety coffee morning! We ate biscuits, drank juice and did a carousel of activities about staying safe online. We each took turns in our classes to come into the hall and take part in the activities – we also had bulletin boards about staying safe online that we each created in our teams!
UNCRC Articles 16 and 17 – children have the right to privacy and should be given reliable information from the media.
Monday 7th February 2022
Dear Parent/Carer,
Parent Governor Vacancy
I am writing to let you know that we have three vacancies for parents on the Governing Body of Nettlesworth Primary School and to explain in a little more detail about what the role involves.
The Role of Governors
Everyone says that the role of governors is increasingly important, especially with the increasing independence of schools as well as the increased scrutiny and accountability of schools and school leaders.
As Governors we are not there to manage the day-to-day running of the school – that is the job of the Principal. We are there to do three main things:
(1) To help set the vision and strategic direction of school;
(2) To hold the Principal to account for the school’s performance;
(3) To monitor the curriculum provision and teaching and learning in school .
Another common way of putting the role of governors is to say that our job is to provide a healthy mix of support and challenge.
The skills and qualities needed by Governors
Recent Government guidance on appointing and electing governors says:
‘All governors need a strong commitment to their role and to improving outcomes for children; the inquisitiveness to question and analyse; and the willingness to learn. They need good inter-personal skills, appropriate levels of literacy in English and sufficient numeracy skills to understand basic data.’
We have a range of backgrounds including: school and higher education, civil service, finance, and human resources.
Time Commitment
We meet as a full governing body once a term, ie three times per year. The meetings run at school. In addition to the meetings, we require governors to come in to school, usually in the school day over the course of the year. These visits usually focus on an aspect of school development. We try to attend various school events and may be called upon for other tasks such as: sitting on senior appointments panels or giving particular attention to a specific issue or policy. As well as these activities there is quite a bit to read and most importantly there is an expectation that Governors will attend training sessions in order to ensure that they are up to date on such things as: school performance data; finance; special educational needs; keeping children safe at schools etc. A comprehensive induction programme is provided.
A term of office is for four years.
Eligibility
Anyone who has a child on the roll of the school at the time of the election is eligible to stand (and you do not have to resign if your child leaves during your term of office).
If you are still interested after reading all the above, I would encourage you to consider putting yourself forward as a candidate. If you would like to speak with me about the role I can also be contacted via the school office. .
If you do wish to put yourself forward then you need to complete a nomination form, which can be collected from school or delivered.
Election Process
If there are more than three candidates an election will be held and this will take place. More details will follow on this.
I hope this is helpful in helping you decide whether or not you wish to stand as a Parent Governor in order to play your part in helping Nettlesworth Primary not only to retain its very high standards but to be part of the school’s development.
If you are interested in this vacancy, please can you let us know by Friday 11th February 2022.
Yours sincerely,
Donna Lee
Head Teacher
UNCRC 31 – Children have the right to relax and play and join in with a range of activities.
Class 4 loved number day! We took part in a carousel of maths games, like bingo, dominoes, a sweet and cake shop and TT Rockstar challenges on the ipads!
