In this section we celebrate our awards and achievements. We celebrate your child’s achievements outside of school as well as within. You can also find out more about celebrations and achievements on your child’s class page.
NACE Award Re-accreditation
We are delighted to let you know that we have been re-accredited for the fourth time the NACE Challenge Award and are now a NACE Challenge Ambassador School-fifth in the country. Thank you to staff, parents, governors and children for your continued hard work.
Please see attached report
Nettlesworth Reaccreditation Report 2024
As part of our community of NACE Challenge Award schools, a new feature launched on our website this week: an interactive map showing the locations of all Challenge Award-accredited schools.
The map is intended to illustrate the reach of the Challenge Award, and to promote the achievement of accredited schools in earning and maintaining the Award. It can be viewed here: www.nace.co.uk/challenge
Platinum Schools Game Award
We are delighted to announce that we, Nettlesworth Primary School, have achieved the School Games Platinum Mark Award for the 2023/24 academic year.
The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.
We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.
As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.
A special thanks to:
Sports Leaders, SSOC’s crew, playground buddies and all of the hard working staff here at NPS!
Investors in Children re-accreditation Award 2024
Congratulations to Nettlesworth Primary School for achieving Investing in Children Membership Award™.
We would like to say a big thank you and well done to all your staff for listening and engaging children and young people in dialogue that has led to change.
Yours Sincerely
Helen Mulhearn
Co-Director
Please see report below
Inclusion Quality Mark Centre of Excellence Review 2024
We are very proud to have been awarded confirmation of ongoing Centre of Excellence Status which reinforces the work that we do to ensure that every child in our school is valued and has their education directly tailored to their learning needs. It represents the fact that we are a fully inclusive school who promote the social, emotional and academic well being of all of our pupils.
You can read the full report from the Quality Mark assessor by clicking on the link below.
Nettlesworth Primary School Review – Apr 2024
Climate Friendly Award
We are so proud of our Climate Friendly Action team., this week we received our certificate acknowledging our achievement of all of our targets. Well done for helping us become a little more climate friendlier in school.
Inclusion Quality Mark Re-Assessment 2023 and Centre of Excellence 2023
We are very proud to have been awarded this prestigious quality mark with Centre of Excellence Status which reinforces the work that we do to ensure that every child in our school is valued and has their education directly tailored to their learning needs. It represents the fact that we are a fully inclusive school who promote the social, emotional and academic well being of all of our pupils.
You can read the full report from the Quality Mark assessor by clicking on the link below.
Nettlesworth Primary School Report – April 2023
AfPE Re-accreditation
We are excited to announce that all of our hard work in PE has once again been recognised and our school has been awarded the afPE Quality Mark + Distinction for a period of 3 years.
During the award process it was noted that as a school are strengths are the following:
The subject lead is passionate and committed to continually driving the development of PESSPA across
the school and dedicated in inspiring ALL pupils to be physically active
The senior management and the rest of the staff whole heartedly support the schools’ vision for PESSPA,
understand the impact that it has on the development of their pupils and implement all interventions
with enthusiasm
The commitment of the school in achieving a REAL active 30 minutes for their pupils each day
A massive congratulations to everyone for the hard work and dedication.
Fairachievers Re-accreditation
We are very proud to be the holders of the Fairachievers School Award. We use Fairtrade products where and when we possibly can including at our Breakfast club. We liaise with local supermarkets such as Sainsburys in order to widen the links with we have with the local community and business.
Have a look at our Fairtrade policy which was actually written by the children themselves expressing their aims for Fairtrade and our school. Please view our Fairtrade Policy by selecting the link below.
Platinum Award
We have amazing news to share with you all …. our hard work in PE was recognised over the summer with us being awarded PLANTINUM School Games Mark for 2021-23. This is the highest award possible and we are so proud of the hard work all of our pupils and staff do in terms of PE and Sports. They demonstrate all of the Sainsburys values in PE lessons and this shines through into all subjects they do. We love that our leaders are amazing and always spoken so highly of by visitors in and out of school.
Rights Respecting Gold Award
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
NACE Award Re-accreditation
We are delighted to let you know that we have been re-accredited for the third time the NACE Challenge Award. Thank you to staff, parents, governors and children for your continued hard work.
Please see attached report
As part of our community of NACE Challenge Award schools, a new feature launched on our website this week: an interactive map showing the locations of all Challenge Award-accredited schools.
The map is intended to illustrate the reach of the Challenge Award, and to promote the achievement of accredited schools in earning and maintaining the Award. It can be viewed here: www.nace.co.uk/challenge
Inclusion Quality Mark Re-Assessment 2019
We are very proud to have been awarded this prestigious quality mark which reinforces the work that we do to ensure that every child in our school is valued and has their education directly tailored to their learning needs. It represents the fact that we are a fully inclusive school who promote the social, emotional and academic well being of all of our pupils.
You can read the full report from the Quality Mark assessor by clicking on the link below.
Nettlesworth Primary School Report – November 2019
Sainsbury’s Games Platinum Award
Sainsbury’s Games Platinum Award
The Platinum Award was launched 2017 as an extension of the School Games Mark to reward schools who have maintained consistently high standards with their school sport provision. As part of the extended application, which was submitted by Mrs Aspinall, the eligible candidates, who had achieved five successive gold awards, were asked to submit a detailed case study along with a supporting paragraph from their School Games Organiser (SGO).
We’re delighted to today announce our that we have been given the Platinum Award and would like to thank our Sports Leaders, School Organising Sports Crew, Children, Staff, Parents and Governors for their hard work and commitment to PE in our school.
AFPE Award
We have amazing news to share! We have received an email confirming that we have been awarded the AfPE quality teaching mark for PE for 2018 – 2021. We are so proud of all of the amazing and hard work that goes on in PE in school and are delighted that our hard work has been recognised.
Massive thanks to all of the staff for their continued hard work and of course to the parents and pupils, without you we really couldn’t do it. Special thanks to the parents / carers that took the time to come into school to speak to, Mr Rhodes, our assessor. Huge well done to all of the children in school for continually working hard. Last but not least our SSOC’s crew, Leaders and Buddies. They literally run our school PE.
THANK YOU!
Rights Respecting School
Rights Respecting Gold Award
We are delighted to inform you that we have been successful in achieving the Rights Respecting Gold Award. We are very proud to achieve such a special award and would like to thank parents, children, staff and Governors for their hard work.
Please find attached our report below.
NACE Award
We are delighted to let you know that we have been re-accredited the NACE Challenge Award. Thank you to staff, parents, governors and children for your continued hard work.
Please see attached report.
Nettlesworth Reaccreditation assessment report.docx july 18 bf qa
| As part of our community of NACE Challenge Award schools, a new feature launched on our website this week: an interactive map showing the locations of all Challenge Award-accredited schools.The map is intended to illustrate the reach of the Challenge Award, and to promote the achievement of accredited schools in earning and maintaining the Award. It can be viewed here: www.nace.co.uk/challenge |
Sainsbury’s Games Gold Award
We are delighted to have achieved the Sainsbury’s Games Gold Award again. We provide all students with two hours of timetabled PE per week and have extra curriculum provision in addition to this. We engage at least 50% of our pupils in extra curricular sporting activity every week. All pupils are provided with an opportunity to take on leadership roles during curriculum PE and we have active links with local community sports and leisure providers.
Inclusion Quality Mark award
We are very proud to have been awarded this prestigious quality mark which reinforces the work that we do to ensure that every child in our school is valued and has their education directly tailored to their learning needs. It represents the fact that we are a fully inclusive school who promote the social, emotional and academic well being of all of our pupils.
You can read the full report from the Quality Mark assessor by clicking on the link below.
Investing in Children Award 2016
We are very proud to announce that we have recently received our Investing In Children re accreditation. This is an award that we have held for several years and is one which is of great importance to us as it links so closely to the Unicef work which we do. This award is a recognition of the role and “voice” that your children have in school and helps us to appreciate what fantastic role models and citizens some of them can be.
Mr Stock from Investing in children presenting our award to our Rights Respecting Council.
Ben’s Football Award
Ben was awarded a trophy for all of his hard work this year in football for his team. Well done Ben!
Kyle Brown – Class 2
Kyle as you may know is a keen footballer. We are proud to announce that his Manager from Monty Under 8’s has recognised this through issuing a calendar of Kyle and a dvd of pictures. These pictures show the determination and concentration Kyle takes in his football training and matches.
Please see the picture of our sports star Kyle.
Fyndoune Transition Day Tuesday 3rd December 2013
Kelsey Docherty Year 5 – Celebrating Success.
We went to Fundoune for the pe/sports day. This involved long jump, the javelin, timed runs and football. One part of the day was to take part in an art project to design a medal. We had to choose an area of the Commonwealth of Nations and decorate it with the traditional art of that area. I won the competition for the best design.
Jamie Ivory won the medal for being in the winning team for long jump and javelin – well done Jamie! We enjoyed the day and I really enjoyed the dancing, our favourite sport was the bench ball which was lots of fun. As part of our school initiative to celebrate success we have two celebrations from Class 3 they are Samuel Sweeney and Kieran Aspel. Samuel Sweeney’s mam got in touch to celebrate Samuels success in achieving two badges fro the cubs the picture attached shows the badges and Samuel in his cubs top.
Samuel joined the clubs last month and was a beaver before then. Samuel enjoys bell boating at camp, working as part of a team, playing lots of games tasks and learning lots of new skills. Well done Samuel!! Kieran Aspel’s mam got in touch and sent us a photograph (see attached) of Kieran gaining his orange belt at Destination Judo. Kieran has been attending Destination Judo in Newton Hall for 2 years and has taken 7 exams and now proudly has his 8th belt (orange in colour). There are 23 people in a group and Kieran enjoys working towards improving his judo skills and working as part of a team. Well done Kieran!!
National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE) Challenge Award
Nettlesworth Primary school has just become only the fourth school in County Durham to be awarded the prestigous NACE Challenge Award. We are very proud to announce our recent success in achieving the NACE Challenge award. This is awarded to schools who demonstrate and are committed to excellence in provision for all children but especially those who are Able, Gifted and Talented.
This award recognises the work that we do with all children in school but in particular the excellence in whole school provision for more able, gifted and talented pupils. It is also a recognition of the hard work and dedication that both staff and pupils give to the work that they do. All children have a right to a broad, balanced and relevant education which provides continuity and progression and takes individual differences into account. In our school we aim to provide a curriculum that is appropriate to the needs and abilities of all children.
We plan our teaching and learning in such a way that we enable each child to reach for the highest level of personal achievement. Further information can be found in the policy below or by contacting the school and speaking to Donna Lee our AG&T Coordinator:
Gifted and Talented Children Policy
What do our pupils think of NACE
Fairtrade
We are very proud to be the holders of the Fairtrade School Award. We use Fairtrade products where and when we possibly can including at our Breakfast club. We liaise with local supermarkets such as Sainsburys in order to widen the links with we have with the local community and business.
Have a look at our Fairtrade policy which was actually written by the children themselves expressing their aims for Fairtrade and our school. Please view our Fairtrade Policy by selecting the link below.
