On Friday, we said goodbye to our Class 4 teacher, Miss Milburn. We know she is only a phone call away and that she will certainly be back too visit us here at Nettlesworth Primary School. Over her time spent here she has worked with many of our children and staff and she will be missed by all of us.

Wishing you all the best in this next phase of your career. Congratulations, and best of luck 🙂

This afternoon class 1 were disturbed by a strange  scratching noise from under their classroom window! When they looked over they saw a ball of white fur hop past… they immediately went to investigate and when we followed the trail of mysterious eggs we found a how Easter Hunt left by the Easter Bunny!

We were EGG-stremely EGG-cited 🐰

Huge well done to our singing superstar in Class 5; Amelia Lee! Before her Razzamataz Drama Club performance at Sambuca’s Restaraunt she let Class 1 & 2 have a sneaky preview and what a delight it was!

From her EYFS days singing on Class 1’s step to live performances she continues to make us extremely proud. Well done Amelia you smashed it!

This week we have been exploring different safeguarding themes during assembly time. On Monday we started with discussing ways in which we can safeguard ourselves and peers both inside of school, at home and when out in the community. We talked about the safeguarding leads in school and what to do if we have any worries or concerns.

For the rest of the week we looked at the following themes:

‘My Body is Mine’

My Body Belongs to Me Safeguarding Assembly

‘Road Safety’

Safe & Unsafe Situations Safeguarding Assembly

‘Being safe in community situations’

Peer Pressure Safeguarding Assembly

‘Peer Pressure’

Road Safety Safeguarding Assembly

On Friday we said our goodbye’s to Mrs Mordue, one of our lunchtime supervisors – we wish her all the best of luck and happiness in her retirement. Enjoy your holiday, we will see you soon 🙂

Today we took part in Wear A Hat Day, raising money to help fund the fight against brain tumours.

All of the staff and children took part in this hattastic event and we celebrated with an inter-school Big Hatty Bake Off! 🎂

We managed to raise £125 for The Brain Tumour Awareness Charity – thank you to everyone who took part 🧠

For more information please follow the link below:

https://www.braintumourresearch.org/fundraise/wear-a-hat-day-events

This week in school we have been celebrating Neurodiversity.

Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. It aims to transform how neurodivergent individuals are perceived and supported by providing schools, universities, and organisations with the opportunity to recognise the many talents and advantages of being neurodivergent, while creating more inclusive and equitable cultures that celebrate differences and empower every individual.

Here at Nettlesworth, we have been looking at ADHD, Autism, Tourette, dyspraxia, dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia and celebrating how unique and amazing every human mind is!

For more information about this, follow the link below: https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/school-resources

In Class 1 we have been developing our knowledge and independence when looking after ourselves; especially when making healthy eating choices and maintaining good dental hygiene 🪥🦷

Today we stepped into the roles of; dentist, dental nurse and the patient and performed an oral checkup. We looked at different food and drinks that are good / bad for our teeth and were surprised to see how much sugar is in some of our favourite foods! 😳

Building on our knowledge that we brush our teeth twice a day (morning and night) we found out that the most important time to brush our teeth is before we go to bed. We then learned a new song that we can sing when brushing our teeth 🦷

We have all picked our own toothbrush and have been given some toothpaste to take home to share all of our dental hygiene tips with our parents. We have also decided to make a display in the corridor so that all of the school can see how important it is to keep our teeth clean and healthy 😁

UNCRC Article 27 – Every child has the right to a good standard of living and governments must help to provide this.

Over the past 2 weeks we have been learning lots of new things linking to our UNCRC Rights Respecting work and Fairtrade Schools Award. Every year we celebrate Fairtrade fortnight and this year we have focused on ‘Pablo – the Super Banana’.

We have tracked his location right from the banana farm in Columbia to our supermarket shelves, closely looking at the bananas that make the farmers happy by treating them fairly; (Fairtrade bananas) and the bananas that make the farmers sad; by not giving the farmers, who do the hardest work, a fair price. The children were shocked that this meant the farmers and their families didn’t have the same UNCRC rights as they have here at Nettlesworth Primary School.

We have set a challenge for the next time we are shopping and will look out for the ‘Super Sticker’ on different products so that together we can make a difference to the wider community all around the world! This started on Thursday afternoon when we visited our in school Fairtade Shop – we had lots of fun picking the different products to take home 🙂

Check out the links below to see what we have been working on – especially the super cool song that we have learned 🙂

Pablo Story EYFS 2022 – Powerpoint

Pablo the Super-Banana (for early years groups) – Fairtrade Schools – Video

Today we celebrated the 25^th anniversary of World Book Day!

This year’s theme was marked  by the message: “You are a reader.” All of our children were encouraged to to dress as their favourite book characters and bring along their favourite story to share.

It was great to see our oldest children enjoy sharing stories with our youngest children …. And we had a surprise visit from one of our favourite Superheroes! 🕸📚