Front Street, Nettlesworth, Chester-le-Street, Co Durham, DH2 3PF
Class 2 and 3 have had a lovely afternoon, celebrating their effort to read at home. Both classes have managed to fill their reading rewards and therefore have had a chocolate fountain and film afternoon. We have had lots of well deserved treats and the children loved it!
Well done class 2 and 3, have a lovely half term!
The Rights Respecting Council planted ‘Fairtrade’ seed pods packed with British wildflower seeds to enhance local biodiversity, to show solidarity with communities taking on the worst effects of climate change.
We had a fantastic time today taking part in the golf festival, led by the fantastic sports leaders and Mr Beverage. We learnt some new skills and had lots of fun trying all of the activities. Every child tried their best and showed some super skills.
UNCRC Article 31 – Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of activities.
Class 2
Class 3
Class 4
Class 5
As part of National Fieldwork week, we decided to look around our local community to find the safest and most enjoyable place to play in our village. We put the question to the children and they wrote a list of 4 places that they thought would be good to explore; Nettlesworth Park, The Community Centre, The Forest & Kimblesworth Park.
We used a large map to navigate our way around the village to the different places we suggested and when we got back to school we recorded our opinions in a pictograms, tally chart and bar chart. The pace with the most votes (11) was Kimblesworth Park and here are some of the reasons why:
* It has a big fence around it and a gate so we are safe when playing,
* This park isn’t near a busy road,
* It’s got lots of things to play on and a basketball court and a big field for picnics,
* It has bins and not much litter on the floor.
Great work class 1 🗺
We all had so much fun walking over the fell as part of our National Fieldwork week work. We looked at all of the natural and man made things that we could see. We loved looking at the school from afar and also spotted lots of houses. We enjoyed spending 10 minutes stilling and using all of our senses to explore the world around us.
Class 3 had a fun geography lesson this week, for National Fieldwork Week. We created our very own treasure maps, adding all of the features we have been covering across the year and a route for our partners to follow. We then went outside and challenged our friends to find our hidden treasure, marked on our maps. We all managed to find each others treasure and were able to accurately use the maps and follow the routes.
Today we joined in with a national live stream, to aim for a new world record with TT Rockstars. Due to the children joining in with the dancing, and practicing their times tables, they did it!!!
Class 4
Well done Class 4 – you’re all times table rockstars!
A super effort by all our children who participated in a Guinness Book of Records attempt hosted by Baz Winter – TT Rockstars.
We have been celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight in school. In our UNCRC lesson, we talked about Fairtrade and we shared ideas about where different foods came from. We looked at how chocolate was made and transported to our shops and completed different activities.
UNCRC Article 27 – Every child has the right to a good standard of living and governments must help to provide this.
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
Imogen from class 3, and Evie from class 4 have been given a trophy, certificate and medal for their brilliant dancing. 
