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Today, we joined as a whole school to take part in our Harvest Festival – it was strange not being at the church joined by all of our family and friends, however we have recorded a video for you all to watch from the comfort of your own homes.
Thank you for all of the amazing donations for our Harvest Collection – Durham Foodbank will be collecting next Tuesday 🙂
UNCRC Article 12: Right to have a say in all things that affect them (forest schools campaign)
Today we went up to our forest schools site to find that it was very unsafe. With lots of rubbish that had been flytipped and grown up tools scattered we had to come back down to school. When we got back one of the children suggested it would be a great idea to draw pictures to tell people to stop making it all messy. We also contacted the local parish council to see if they could help us too and we have asked our parents that if they’re out dog walking they could help us litter pick too 🙂
Mission clean up our forest is in full swing and after having replies from our parish council we are feeling a lot more hopeful that it might not happen again 🙂
UNCRC Article 29: Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.
After working hard with Liz Million we decided there was only one place for the wonderful artwork linking to our topics and that was in a frame!
It’s fair to say we have some very talented children when it comes to Art 🙂
UNCRC Article 12: Every child has a right to have a say in matters that affect them.
As you will know out Rights Respecting Champions thought it would be a great idea to get the children all on board with fundraising for the KS2 reading resources this Autumn term and to do this they thought a Sponsored read for all of the children to join in with would be amazing!
As Duty Bearers the staff set aside a week where the whole school could make a pledge for their read and try to raise as much money as possible. We got one of our favourite Authors on board too; Adam Bushnell, who kindly offered to sign bookmarks for all children who raised over £5 and give top prizes to the 3 children who raised the most.
It is fair to say that the teachers, champions and whole school were astounded when the sponsorships were handed in and money counted. Every child who took part exceeded all of our expectations and the total raised was UNBELIEVABLE – many children raised over £100 for completely their pledge!
As a school, we altogether raised; £2043 which is something that we are so proud of so THANK you so much for supporting us – we are getting to work ordering all of the books as we speak 🙂
A day of Smiles and Random Acts of Kindness; hosted by the UNCRC Rights Respecting Champions.
Huge well done to everyone who made the wonderful effort – it was AMAZING to see all of you wearing what made you happy 🙂
At 2pm for half an hour the children set to work delivering their Random Acts of Kindness to the children in their secretly chosen classes. It was fantastic to see every child have a smile on their faces – the most contagious thing in Nettlesworth:
Check out our SELFIE’s – I challenge you not to smile whilst watching it…. It’s impossible 🙂
UNCRC Article Link 12: Every child has the right to have a say in all matter affecting them.
Today we launched the Outright campaign with the whole school; this year’s focus is on Mental Health and Wellbeing. The champions delivered a fantastic assembly to the children along with a PowerPoint explaining what Nettlesworth Primary School children will be campaigning for this year.
They set out the first activity for the whole school to enjoy which will take place on Friday 1st October 2021 – WORLD SMILE DAY! The Rights Respecting Champions have sent letters home to invite children to come to school on Friday wearing whatever makes them HAPPY! As part of the day; the Champions organised Class names to be drawn from a hat by the teachers – the children then went back to their classes with the teachers and held a discussion on what RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS they would deliver to the chosen class at 2pm on Friday….
…….SSSHHHHHHHHH ITS A SECRET 🙂
We had such a fantastic day, celebrating all things Roald Dahl today.
The children all looked amazing in their costumes and wearing yummy yellow – his favourite colour! There were some outstanding homemade costumes that must have taken so long to make.
The children all came together in assembly to celebrate Roald Dahl and the children then took part in various Roald Dahl activities in their classrooms throughout the day.
Thank you to all of the parents/carers who came along to our afterschool Phonics Launch, where we discussed our new scheme of reading books that match directly with the Read Write Inc. programme that we deliver daily in school.
It was great to have you all back in our happy place and to see so many of your questions regarding teaching your children to read at home being addressed.
For those of you who were unable to make it I have attached the PowerPoints and some useful links that will help you begin your child’s reading journey. Additionally, we have sent a copy of the letters given out to the parents to every child.
Thanks once again for your continued support – if you have any other questions then please do not hesitate to contact us 🙂
We are sooo sad to be saying goodbye to one of our longest serving TA’s Mrs Shaw – over the years you have worked in all of the classes, adults and children across the school and we LOVE you dearly!
Another special thank you to all of the parents and children who have given us the best year! We are so grateful for all of you gifts, cards and well wishes. Now have the BEST Summer!!! We will see you all in September.
From all of the staff,
A big thanks and we appreciate you 🙂
