TT Rockstars – England Rocks – 8th to 11th November 2021

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Our children continue to work hard on the development of their Multiplication Tables – these are essential skills to enhance the children’s mental mathematics and number property knowledge and understanding. The children from each class are actively involved in multiplication exercises through our TT Rockstars and Numbots initiative in school and using their electronic devices at home.

May I first say a huge thank you for all your commitment in helping your child complete their TT Rockstars and Numbots at home – long may this continue.

For Maths’ Week England (8^th – 12^th November 2021), we want to make maths exciting and high profile in our school. We will be taking part in a friendly competition involving schools from England from Monday 8th November to Thursday 11th November. It’s all done online via play.ttrockstars.com.

For every correct answer to a multiplication or division question, your child will earn their class a point. The Times Tables Rock Stars platform will calculate the class average (the number of correct answers per pupil in the class who play during the competition hours, subject to a daily 60-minute limit (see below). Winning classes in the school and in the competition as a whole will be the ones with the highest average.

All game modes (Gig, Garage, Studio, etc.) will count but only from games played between 7:30AM GMT and 7:30PM GMT on Monday 8th, Tuesday 9th, Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th. To support player wellbeing, there is a daily time limit of 60 minutes per player. In other words, each player can earn competition points for up to 60 minutes between 7.30am and 7.30pm. Once the player goes beyond 60 minutes of play on a given day, they will still earn coins but will no longer earn points towards the competition.

In the spirit of the competition, please don’t play on their behalf but by all means encourage and support them to the extent that it doesn’t cause high stress levels or impact on family plans. We suggest a limit of half an hour a day outside school hours – some will play more, some will play less.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any queries.

Once again, thank you for your continuous support.

England Rocks PowerPoint – 8.11 – 11.11.21

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Well done to our latest children who achieved the most correct answers on their TT Rockstars during the last 7 days. Good efforts to everyone else who accessed their APP at home during the week.

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

A fabulous effort to Florence who achieved her next Lexia Certificate.

Well done to everyone who has been accessing their Lexia and remember to try to use your APP whilst you are at home so that you can earn your certificates.

Halloween Disco – 21.10.21

UNCRC Article 31 (leisure, play and culture)

What a fabulous time we all had during our Halloween Disco. All of your costumes were fantastic – your adults have made a fabulous effort; well done everybody. We all had tremendous fun dancing, playing party games, eating party food and even dressing the teachers up as mummies!

A super Rights Respecting Gold effort from everyone at Nettlesworth Primary.

 

Cornerstones Curriculum

Showcase – 22.10.21

UNCRC Article 38 (war and armed conflicts)

What a lovely way to finish our Cornerstones Curriculum Fallen Fields topic this term – a Street Party to celebrate the end of World War 1.

The children made bunting to string across the classroom,  wreaths and poppies to remember those who made the biggest sacrifice whilst serving their country, ate party food from WW1 (1918) whilst listening to wartime music.

Well done to all children in Class 5 – you really are fabulous and demonstrated your Rights Respecting Gold ethos across the entire term.

Our school is closed for an Inset day on Friday 26^th November.

To help parents, staff from Sacriston Youth Project have volunteered to host a free holiday club 8:30-15:15 at Nettlesworth Community Centre.

They don’t have use of the full centre due to baby groups running in the big hall.  Therefore, they will need to limit the numbers to 25 places.

Parents can book a place via the youth project’s website here Bookings Checkout | SYP (sacristonyouthproject.co.uk)

Children who are registered to attend the Friday youth club and also booked to attend the holiday club can remain with them from 15:15 until their normal session starts at 16:00.

Well done to Erica, Isla, George and Karen  for excellent work this week in rising star assessments, number skills, determination and received Head Teacher’s Award.

Predator topic end of term showcase!

UNCRC Article 29 – Education should develop each child’s personality and talents to the full.

Class 4 have really enjoyed their predator topic and I am impressed with everyone’s knowledge and new skills, using online research in ICT the children created power points and then presented them to the rest of the class.

 

In DT, Class 4 created amazing 3D predator sculptures working together as a team!

Homework superstars!

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Well done to all of those who have completed their homework each week this half term. The children loved their little treat to say thank you.

 

Well done to Harry, Naya, Jacob, Evie and Nolan for excellent work this week in writing, number skills, determination and received Head Teacher’s Award.

Cornerstones Celebration

Today marked the end of our first Cornerstones topic – Dinosaur Planet. We had lots of fun recapping what we have learnt this half term. We then read our favourite dinosaur story, danced to dinosaur music, played games and ate dinosaur poo! We have really enjoyed our first topic and are looking forward to the next one.

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