Hooray for Prickly Hay!

Class 1 and 2 have worked extremely hard over the past 3 weeks, practising their Christmas Performance. We have finally performed to the whole school and our parents and put on a howdown you’ll never forget!

MERRY CHRISTMAS 🙂

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 Connie Hadwin(1), Harrison Hindmarch(2), Peyton Rutherford(3) and  Elliott O’Roarty(4). They have been chosen for demonstrating creativity and persistence in their learning across the whole curriculum. Well done! 🙂

Well done to our little superstar, Erica, in class 1! She has just passed her swimming level – Keep up the fantastic work 🙂

Today as a Christmas treat we had a Pantomime in the comfort of our own school! It was absolutely fantastic – thank you to the actors at Big Foot Entertainment who provided us with an afternoon of cheer, as well as the Nettlesworth School Community Group (NSCG) for organising  it! 🙂

Huge thank you to Paul from SPLAT who has worked with us over the past couple of days providing us with a wonderful day full of circus skills on Monday and then a SPAG day on Tuesday.

These opportunities have not only increased our sporting/movement skills, especially balancing, throwing and catching but they have also provided us with a lot of important speaking and listening skills through performing in front of an audience short acts all about the things we have been learning about SPAG (Spelling, punctuation & Grammar).

Each class had differentiated activities to take part in and then at the end we put all of our SPAGTASTIC work together and performed in front of the whole school! We also had bundles of fun along the way! 🙂

Over the past couple of weeks, Papi & Claire (our governors and members of the parent group) has been working with the children in classes to make Christmas wreaths that they have chosen to order. They are absolutely fantastic and will hang beautiful on the doors of Nettlesworth and the wider community!

Thank you!!!! 🙂

We are thrilled to accept the award from Green Tree Schools as we have been marked a Gold School for all our Forest Schools activities taking place across the entire school; planting trees, growing pumpkins, weekly forest schools sessions as well as providing children with outdoor learning opportunities across all of the seasons!

Well done to last year’s reception and year 1 for being our first official cohort of “forest schooler’s” as well as the current children taking part in our fantastic weekly sessions! 🙂

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 Joshua Burnip (1), Emilia Strong (2), Brooke (3) and  Leah(4). They have been chosen for demonstrating creativity and persistence in their learning across the whole curriculum. Well done! 🙂

A massive well done to all of our new Sports Leaders and Buddies on their completion of their training. They have worked hard this past half term to complete jobs after school.

Also congratulations to our new members of the SSOCs crew and our newly appointed Head of Crew.

Emma from the School Sports Partnership came into school to present the children with their certificates and lanyards. She also had a lovely surprise for us and was able to present us with our Platinum Schools Game award.

Paul came into school to teach us Circus skills such as juggling, balancing and stilt walking. In our pupil improvement plan at the beginning of the year, we wanted to learn some new sports; circus skills were one of them. We had great fun balancing a peacock feather.