We are excited to be working with Naomi and Sarah from the Refuse Cafe in Chester le street. They are working with us to help us understand our food waste in school and how this has an impact on the world around us. We have our very own Waste Warriors in school too, who will be helping to spread the important message about food waste and how we can work to ensure we waste as little food as possible. Keep an eye on our website for more information!

UNCRC Article 24- Right to best possible health

UNCRC Article 12 – Every child has the right to have a say and have their views taken seriously.

We have been learning all about the upcoming general election, in both assemblies and in class. We discussed what a general election was and why it is important. We decided to have our very own election, in our coloured teams. Each team has proposed an idea for a treat on Monday. The team captains worked hard to create posters and stood in front of everyone in assembly to propose their team’s ideas. We had some amazing speeches that were very persuasive. On Thursday, each child will vote for the team they would like to win and the winning team will choose our treat! We are looking forward to seeing who the winning team are.

Our winners of the election are…. Red Team!!! Red teams choice of treat was a movie afternoon, which we will all enjoy on Monday!

On Friday, we took part in raising money for Red Nose Day. We all came to school dressed in our red sporting clothes and took part in a skip into spring event. The Sports Leaders did an amazing job of organising and delivering a range of skipping games. The sports leaders gave out certificates to the children who demonstrated our Sainsburys Values. Those lucky children then got to take on the teachers. Who could skip the longest, the children or the teachers? Well done to the children, who came out on top!

Well done to everyone, we loved seeing your determination in our skipping events.

Thank you to everyone for their kind donations.

We were proud to support Children in Need by dressing in Spots and Pudsey clothing in exchange for a donation for this wonderful charity. Altogether we raised a huge £121 – thank you to everyone who donated 🔴🟢🟠🔵🟡🟣

The School Sports Leaders designed some amazing SPOTacular games to play with the children in their teams on Friday afternoon in the school hall – there was; 4 in a row, dominoes, SPOT the difference between the teachers, Pudsey Pointillism Art and Twister.

The children loved playing the games and everyone received a prize for taking part, a massive thanks to the School Sports Leaders for helping!

We also had 3 prizes for the most SPOTTY children in the school; our nominees are below and the overall winners were: Lucas, Jacob and Pudsey….or should we say Lilly 🙂

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What a wonderful assembly we had today where the Rights Respecting Council delivered our assembly about the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee: Amelia and Maisie even performed the National Anthem on their violins.

Beautiful readings and performances – Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

UNCRC Article 24 – Health

Well done to our Rights Respecting Champions for their work on Mental Health Wellbeing: you are all true Role Models to our school.

This morning in assembly we talked about how we are thinking about the children in Ukraine. We discussed our UNCRC articles and rights that we all have as children. We decided that we would like to show the children in Ukraine that we are thinking about them during this difficult time. Each child planted a sunflower seeds that we are going to take care of in school. In the warmer months we will then plant them outside on our school field to watch them continue to grow.

UNCRC Article 1 – everyone under the age of 18 has all the rights in the Convention.

This week, the Rights Respecting Champions and members of our Breakfast Club have been working together to broaden our breakfast menu, by adding some new healthy options. They created a questionnaire to find out which foods breakfast club members would like to try. Using their pupil voice, they then discussed the outcomes with the breakfast club staff and today everyone enjoyed scrambled egg and beans on toast!

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

Crisis Support Sleep Over – 12.11.21

UNCRC Article 27 (adequate standard of living)

What an experience we have all just had – a sleep over with a difference!

In support to our Charity – Crisis Support – our children spent the night in school sleeping on the hall floor to re-enact what it would be like if we were to be homeless. The children made shelters from cardboard boxes, ate soup from the soup kitchen and made clothing from plastic bags. This has been a real eye-opener for the children, who all demonstrated their Rights Respecting Ethos in how they conducted themselves throughout the evening. Well done Class 5; you have shone once again.

• UNCRC Article 24: Every child has the right to the best possible health

A day of Smiles and Random Acts of Kindness; hosted by the UNCRC Rights Respecting Champions.

Huge well done to everyone who made the wonderful effort – it was AMAZING to see all of you wearing what made you happy 🙂

At 2pm for half an hour the children set to work delivering their Random Acts of Kindness to the children in their secretly chosen classes. It was fantastic to see every child have a smile on their faces – the most contagious thing in Nettlesworth:

• Class 1 were delighted to receive a specially planned Sweety Hunt on our school field by Class 4!

UNCRC Article Link 12: Every child has the right to have a say in all matter affecting them.

Today we launched the Outright campaign with the whole school; this year’s focus is on Mental Health and Wellbeing. The champions delivered a fantastic assembly to the children along with a PowerPoint explaining what Nettlesworth Primary School children will be campaigning for this year.

They set out the first activity for the whole school to enjoy which will take place on Friday 1st October 2021 – WORLD SMILE DAY! The Rights Respecting Champions have sent letters home to invite children to come to school on Friday wearing whatever makes them HAPPY! As part of the day; the Champions organised Class names to be drawn from a hat by the teachers – the children then went back to their classes with the teachers and held a discussion on what RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS they would deliver to the chosen class at 2pm on Friday….

…….SSSHHHHHHHHH ITS A SECRET 🙂

We had such a fantastic day, celebrating all things Roald Dahl today.

The children all looked amazing in their costumes and wearing yummy yellow – his favourite colour! There were some outstanding homemade costumes that must have taken so long to make.

The children all came together in assembly to celebrate Roald Dahl and the children then took part in various Roald Dahl activities in their classrooms throughout the day.

Today was spent raising money and awareness for the amazing charity ‘Brain Tumour Awareness’

All of the staff and children wore hats; taking part in the ‘Wear a Hat Day’ fundraising. Thank you for everyone who donated £1 to this amazing cause 🙂

UNCRC Articles 12 and 19

The Rights Respecting Champions of Nettlesworth Primary School did us all proud today when they hosted their very own Virtual Assembly to raise the awareness of World Children’s Day.

The each spoke to the rest of the school via TEAMs, addressing the global issues of Climate Change.

Well done to our champions, and to the rest of our school on a fabulous effort around this topical issue.