Huge thank you to all of your fantastic donations to this amazing charity helping children with Genetic Disorders! This links closely to the work we do within the community as a Rights Respecting School:

UNCRC Article 23: A child with a disability has the right to live a full and decent life with dignity and independence, and to play an active part in the community.

1 in 25 children has a genetic disorder that makes their life very difficult. That’s like one in every class. By wearing our jeans and donating, we have helped to change the lives of these children.

We are overwhelmed with all of the donations and have received a grand total of £95.06!

WELL DONE EVERYONE! 🙂

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 Erica Headlam (1), Alfie Harle (2), Rachel Watson (3) and  Lacey Beddison (4). They have been chosen for demonstrating creativity and persistence in their learning across the whole curriculum. Well done! 🙂

As a school we are promoting children to be active for at least 30 minutes each day, both at school and then when they get home. Our active 30 Homework promotes exercise out of school time. The children who have been awarded the Active 30 Ball this week are; Charlie.W (1), Harrison.H (2), Oliver.P (3) and Makenzie.C (4)!

Well done for your fantastic achievements in sport this week! 🙂

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 Sophia Logan (1),Lucie Punshon (2), Erica Snowball (3) and  Eryna Creighton (4). They have been chosen for demonstrating creativity and persistence in their learning across the whole curriculum. Well done!

A massive well done to our SSOC’s crew 2017 – 2018 who achieved the School Sports Partnership Gold Award for excellent leadership.

Mini Olympics

Class 4 had an amazing time at the first sports festival of the year.

Here is what they had to say…..

Today, Friday 7th September, Year 6 had the pleasure to experience a Mini Olympics event at Maiden Castle in Durham. We were lucky to sample both fencing and athletics. Fortunately for us, we sampled Fencing first indoors (it was raining outside!). This was an unbelievable sport, using the correct equipment. Did you know the sword is actually called a Foil? After practising for 15 minutes, we all had a duel.

We sampled athletics outside on the 400m running track. This was an actual training track and the surface was quite soft! We practiced a few sprinting drills, followed by the very hard Elimination Race which is where we had to run around the track 3 times. There were teachers positioned at each corner of the track, and if you were last at these points, you were eliminated!

Well done to Alfie and Keira who were the first boy and girl from Nettlesworth.

We would like to say a massive welcome to the new members of our SSOCs Crew. Our current members nominated new members to fill roles that had current spaces.

Welcome to our new ….

…head of crew – Alfie Bates.

…festival leader – Leah Debrick

…research leader – Rachel Watson

….official leader – Lewis Smith

….administrator – Lacey Bedison

It gives us great pleasure to share the wonderful achievements of some children in our school who, at the weekend, completed the Junior Great North Run! Well done Praim, Lucas and Jacob who brought int heir marvellous medals and showed us some super starting line photos!!!! 🙂

Rights Respecting School

We are immensely proud to be a UNICEF Rights Respecting School level 2.

UNCRC Article 12– Children have the right to say what they think should happen when adults are makingdecisions that affect them, and to havetheir opinions taken in to account.

As a Rights Respecting school  we are an organisationwhich promotes equality and the UNCRC articles giving children in our care a high level of pupil voice and participation as well as striving to educate them to become all round Global citizens.

We are also a Rights Respecting Ambassador School, where we work with other schools to help promote and achieve Rights Respecting Schools Award

A large part of this work is the creation of Charters  – agreements between the children and adults in school about what actions both groups will take to help promote the UNCRC articles.

Groups of children in a class will choose an article that they feel is important to them and think about what actions they as children  can take to help themselves and others globally to make that article work.

Adults in school will think about what actions they can take to do the same.  Together, class, whole school and playground charters are created which helps to make our school a thoughtful, reflective place to learn, work and play.

We are due our re-accreditation assessment on Tue 2^ndOctober

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.