Amazing basketball skills demonstrated this week in multi skills. A special mention to the following children for showing our values throughout the sessions.

UNCRC Article 29 – develop talents

Today in school we had our very own Internet Safety coffee morning! We ate biscuits, drank juice and did a carousel of activities about staying safe online. We each took turns in our classes to come into the hall and take part in the activities – we also had bulletin boards about staying safe online that we each created in our teams!

UNCRC Articles 16 and 17 – children have the right to privacy and should be given reliable information from the media.

The sports leaders are doing a fantastic job of keeping us all active at play time. We are using the anomaly board to give us lots of ideas to keep us moving!

Durham University Holiday Camps

We are back running sport and activity camps from Monday 21st to Friday 25th February at our state of the art Sports and Wellbeing Park. The camps are available to all 5-11 year olds and can be booked on a day to day basis. Costs are £15 per day (09.30am-4.30pm) with a small charge for wraparound care from 08.30am and until 5.30pm each day.

Click the link here to see a short video about what happens at our Holiday Camps.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=you+tube+durham+university+holiday+camps&docid=608029024122065778&mid=11E62CA1B8DC0CD280A911E62CA1B8DC0CD280A9&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

To book a place for your child, please click here.

https://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=1805

Well done to this weeks multi skills super stars ⭐️ look at all the fantastic skills we demonstrate each week

UNCRC 29 – develop talents

Today we went to Sherburn Leisure Centre to take part in a Gymnastic event. We had loads of fun bouncing and jumping and balancing! We loved using all of the equipment and practising the skills we have learnt in school with Mr Beveridge.

Look at us go!

UNCRC 29 – education should develop talents to the full

Last week class 2 entered a colouring competition at Tesco in Chester le Street. All of our lovely pictures are on display in store. But we had amazing news! One of our friends won a prize!

A massive well done to Jake for a beautifully coloured in picture. He won a Tesco gift voucher and a bag full of chocolate! 🍫 we hope you enjoy your prize!!! Super proud of you Jake 🎉

Letter to Kevan Jones, MP

In Geography this half term we have learnt all about our local area. We talked about what we like and dislike about Nettlesworth. We noticed that one of the things that we don’t like is the smelly dog poo! So we decided to try and do something about it. We have written a letter to our MP, Kevan Jones, in the hope he can help us solve this smelly problem!

UNCRC Article 12 – right to a say in all matters affecting them

Letter to KJ

Update …

Further to your correspondence to Durham County Council dated 14 December in which you detail Ms Aspinal’s concerns regarding the installation of a dog waste bin near Nettlesworth Primary School.

Firstly, I am sorry to hear that irresponsible people are not picking up after their pets. Regarding your suggestion to install a dog waste bin near the school, I can confirm that we can install a dog waste bin next to a lamppost on the grass verge outside the school grounds. If this location is acceptable we can arrange for the bin to be installed.

If Ms Aspinal could confirm that she is happy with the suggestion, we can then make arrangements to carry out the work.

Yours sincerely

Jeff Talbot
Clean and Green Manager

Teddy Bears Picnic

Today we had lots of fun making our sandwiches that we previously designed. We made sure we washed our hands and used the equipment sensibly, all to keep us safe. We then finished with our teddy bears picnic!

We have had so much fun learning all about magic today …… well that’s what we thought! Professor Brainstorm showed us how incredible science is and how much fun we can have investigating.