Today we performed our end of year show for the parents & carers of the children in class 1 and the whole school. The children put on a wonderful show ‘The Enormous Turnip’ for the audience to enjoy…

Well done Class 1 🙂

 

Class 1 and Durham School Sports Partnership held a fantastic afternoon of fundamental movement activities for schools to attend. Our Sports Leaders were a credit to the school and had the activities organised to perfection for an afternoon of fun 🙂

Today we had a wonderful visit to Hamsterley Forest and took part in a day of exciting activities led by OAESES.

Class 1 & 2 followed the Zog trail and made magical wands with woodland materials.

Class 3 had a day of OAA and followed many different maps to solve the mystery 🙂

 

To raise money for the Booktrust, we took part in a Pyjamarama Day at Nettlesworth!

We came  to school in our pyjamas and then took part in some fun reading activities throughout the day. We had lots of fun activities planned throughout the day and celebrated the importance of every child having a bedtime story to read 🙂

Together we raised £55.00

 

 

 

Today we had the pleasure of welcoming back the amazing author and story teller Adam Bushnell into our school. It was a fabulous to spark imaginations and get the creative writing flowing as we launched our new topics across the school – very inspiring for all of our children.

Class 1

We had lots of fun creating our own characters for fairy tales such as; ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘The 3 Little Pigs’. We used lots of adjectives to describe our characters and added detail to the paper plate characters using natural resources that we found on the field floor.

 

Class 2 – Rio De Vida

 

 

Class 3 – Pirates

 

 

Class 4 – Heroes and Villains

 

 

Class 5 – Firedamp and Davy Lamps

Class 1 have had so much fun working with Coach Darren over the last two sessions to learn skills in how to ride a balance bike. Five of the class received pedals in their first session too which was amazing!

Well done Class 1 🙂

 

This week in school the children have been focusing on the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III, throughout the curriculum in different subjects, assemblies and after-school clubs. It has been a fantastic build up to the King’s coronation ceremony which will take place on Saturday 6 May 2023, 11am at Westminster Abbey in London. On Friday 5th May 2023 the children and staff were invited to come into school wearing red, white and blue clothing to mark this amazing event that will be wrote in the History books for many years to come.

Each child will receive a commemorative coin for King Charles III 🙂

The coronation of the new Sovereign is an occasion for pageantry and celebration, but it is also a solemn religious ceremony that has remained essentially the same over a thousand years. For the last 900 years, the English coronation ceremony has usually taken place at Westminster Abbey in London. The service is conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, as it has almost always been since the Norman Conquest in 1066. For more details about the ceremony are available on the royal.uk website.

Part of the ceremony will focus on St Edward’s Crown, the crown historically used at the moment of coronation and last worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her Coronation in 1953. It was made for Charles II in 1661, as a replacement for the medieval crown which had been melted down in 1649.

Please see the PowerPoint for more information: Coronation-Ceremony-Assembly

Here are some of our highlights from this week in School:

Nettlesworth Primary school had lots of fun celebrating and raising awareness for Brain Tumours when taking part in Wear A Hat Day. We took part in a HATTASTIC quiz and crowned the winning team with a super-amazing hat trophy. It was great to see so many hats of all different shapes and sizes – Well done everyone 🙂

We would like to say a huge thank you to all of our parents and carers for helping to raise £75.00

This week in our Safeguarding Assembly  we took part in Water safety education. At Nettlesworth, we recognise that this is a vital life skill, but it doesn’t have to be boring. So, we have worked alongside the Durham School’s Sports Partnership and delivered the activity packs from Rookie Lifeguards Training to get across the importance of Water Safety to the children.

 

For more information about this see the packs below:

Staying-safe-around-water-powerpoint

Water_Safety_Puzzles_-_One

Watersafety_Puzzles_Two

UNCRC Article 28: Every child has the right to an education.

Thursday 2nd March 2023

Today we  celebrated World Book Day on , and all of the children came to school dressed as their favourite book character, bringing along their favourite book. Each class took part in a range of activities celebrating and bringing our love for reading to life!