Alex, Ruby, Reuben and Charlie visited Durham Town Hall with Mrs Lee. They met the Deputy Mayor and the Mayor’s Security. Rob and Les told us about the history of the Town Hall and we learnt about British Values of Democracy and the rule of law.

This week we have started our Active 30 Homework. As a school we are promoting children to be active for at least 30 minutes each day. Our active 30 Homework is hoping to promote exercise out of school time. Each class now has an Active 30 book and each class teacher will choose a pupil to take the book and a ball home for the weekend. We are asking parents / carers to work with their child over the weekend to play with the ball and make notes on any games they have played.

Thank you to the parents that contributed this weekend! We look forward to seeing all of the lovely games you manage to complete over the next coming weeks.

The Headteacher’s Award recognises good work and behaviour, positive attitudes to learning, kindness and consideration towards others and improvements in all areas of learning. Class teachers choose children to be presented with the award in our ‘Celebration Assembly’.

Congratulations to Olivia (1), Harrison (2),  Olivia (3) and all Bailey (4). They have been chosen for demonstrating creativity and persistence in their learning across the whole curriculum. Well done!

Congratulations Red Team, who have for the first time this year, who scored the most Team Points this week in our Celebration Assembly. They all handed in their homework and brought their P.E kits to school. Good Teamwork! 🙂

Huge thank you to Rev. Caroline and Anita for delivering a wonderful ‘Open the Book’ Assembly today! We really enjoyed being the different characters and the whole school were involved with the retelling of the story.

We look forward to seeing you again soon!

A massive Congratulations to all of the Athletics team from class 4 that took part in the Athletics festival at Riverside yesterday. You all worked really hard and made us proud of how you represented our school. You all tried your best and showed such good determination in the events you took part in.

We are especially proud of Alexander who managed to come 2nd in two of his races and has been chosen to represent Chester le Street at the County Finals later in the month. This is brilliant news Alexander! Congratulations and good luck! We know you will do us proud!

Dear Parents/Carers,

You will be aware that we had a recent inspection by Ofsted. Finally we have received the report and attached is the summary report for parents. We are delighted at the outcomes and thank you again for the fantastic response on parent view.

Ofsted have commented how we continue to see safeguarding as the highest of priorities and how pupils have made good progress and attained standards in line with, or above, those seen nationally by the time they leave school.

The report will be published on the Ofsted website and will be put on our school website.

If you have any questions about the content of the report or the inspection process please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Yours Sincerely

Donna Lee

Nettlesworth Primary School Ofsted Letter 2018

Class 1 had the most amazing time visiting the farm animals at adventure valley today! We groomed a Shetland pony, had a ride on the tractor, held rabbits and guinea pigs and even stroked some ducklings that we hope to soon have in our classroom once we have incubated the eggs for 28 days!

To top off this wonderful trip, Adventure Valley offered to donate a Family Pass to our Summer Fayre Raffle due to how well behaved and respectful our children were! 🙂

****Yeyyyyyy!!!

The caterpillars have hatched from their Chrysalides and we now have 5 healthy butterflies to release into the grounds of Nettlesworth primary School! The children have worked extremely hard learning about how animals and plants change throughout their life cycles – it’s just a shame Miss Grant couldn’t work out the timing so we could all watch them fly! 🙂

Huge well done to Matthew from Class 1 who has received his first football trophy at the age of 4 for his fantastic development at his after school football club!

Keep up the fantastic work Matthew! 🙂