Welcome to our Rights Respecting School Council

Our Rights Respecting Council work very hard on our behalf to promote the work of our school. More information on who they are and what they do can be found on our homepage and also via the Rights Respecting School link on the right hand side of this page.

Our 2022-2023 Rights Respecting Council Champions

As a Rights Respecting school we are an organisation which promotes equality and the UNCRC articles giving children in our care a high level of pupil voice and participation as well as striving to educate them to become all round Global citizens. Please click the link below to see our Rights Respecting champions and their roles.

RRC badges

Our 2021-2022 Rights Respecting Council Champions

Our 2020-2021 Rights Respecting Council Champions

Class 4 Bubble Members

Class 3 Bubble Members

Examples of Events the Rights Respecting School Council have arranged

Red Nose Day 2023

On Friday, we took part in raising money for Red Nose Day. We all came to school dressed in our red sporting clothes and took part in a skip into spring event. The Sports Leaders did an amazing job of organising and delivering a range of skipping games. The sports leaders gave out certificates to the children who demonstrated our Sainsburys Values. Those lucky children then got to take on the teachers. Who could skip the longest, the children or the teachers? Well done to the children, who came out on top!

Well done to everyone, we loved seeing your determination in our skipping events.

Thank you to everyone for their kind donations.

Children in Need 2022

We were proud to support Children in Need by dressing in Spots and Pudsey clothing in exchange for a donation for this wonderful charity. Altogether we raised a huge £121 – thank you to everyone who donated 🔴🟢🟠🔵🟡🟣

The School Sports Leaders designed some amazing SPOTacular games to play with the children in their teams on Friday afternoon in the school hall – there was; 4 in a row, dominoes, SPOT the difference between the teachers, Pudsey Pointillism Art and Twister.

The children loved playing the games and everyone received a prize for taking part, a massive thanks to the School Sports Leaders for helping!

We also had 3 prizes for the most SPOTTY children in the school; our nominees are below and the overall winners were: Lucas, Jacob and Pudsey….or should we say Lilly 🙂

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Rights Respecting Champions – 23.5.22

What a wonderful assembly we had today where the Rights Respecting Council delivered our assembly about the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee: Amelia and Maisie even performed the National Anthem on their violins.

Beautiful readings and performances – Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Mental Health Outright Campaign

UNCRC Article 24 – Health

Well done to our Rights Respecting Champions for their work on Mental Health Wellbeing: you are all true Role Models to our school.

Sunflowers for Ukraine

This morning in assembly we talked about how we are thinking about the children in Ukraine. We discussed our UNCRC articles and rights that we all have as children. We decided that we would like to show the children in Ukraine that we are thinking about them during this difficult time. Each child planted a sunflower seeds that we are going to take care of in school. In the warmer months we will then plant them outside on our school field to watch them continue to grow.

UNCRC Article 1 – everyone under the age of 18 has all the rights in the Convention.

Breakfast Club 2022

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

Class 2’s letter to Kevan Jones, MP 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 sincerelyJeff TalbotClean and Green Manager

CRISIS Support School Sleepover 12.11.21

Crisis Support Sleep Over – 12.11.21

UNCRC Article 27 (adequate standard of living)

What an experience we have all just had – a sleep over with a difference!

In support to our Charity – Crisis Support – our children spent the night in school sleeping on the hall floor to re-enact what it would be like if we were to be homeless. The children made shelters from cardboard boxes, ate soup from the soup kitchen and made clothing from plastic bags. This has been a real eye-opener for the children, who all demonstrated their Rights Respecting Ethos in how they conducted themselves throughout the evening. Well done Class 5; you have shone once again.

World Smile Day 2021

UNCRC Article 24: Every child has the right to the best possible health

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:

Class 1 were delighted to receive a specially planned Sweety Hunt on our school field by Class 4!

Rights Respecting Champions Launch Outright Campaign 2021

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 🙂

Roald Dahl Day 2021

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.

Wear a Hat Day 2021

Today was spent raising money and awareness for the amazing charity ‘Brain Tumour Awareness’

All of the staff and children wore hats; taking part in the ‘Wear a Hat Day’ fundraising. Thank you for everyone who donated £1 to this amazing cause 🙂

UNCRC Articles 12 and 19

Red Nose Day 2021

Today the children have taken on the mammoth challenge that we call the ‘ATHON CHALLENGES’. We raised a total of £61 via ParentPay.

All day today each class bubble have been working hard to raise money for the Red Nose Day charity;

Starting with Class 1 who participated in the outdoor ‘CLIMBATHON’.
The next hour saw Class 2 tackle the ‘YOGATHON’ – each team had 15minutes to get their Yoga on – lasting the whole hour!
Class 3’s challenge was ‘SKIPATHON’ where the children from each team had 15 minutes of Skipping to participate in.
Before Class 4 ended our ‘ATHON CHALLENGES’ with ‘DANCEATHON’!

Huge well done to all of the children who participated and helped us raise money for this amazing charity. As well as all of the parents and carers who donated via ParentPay 🙂

22 February to 7 March 2021

VISIT THE FESTIVAL WEBSITE

For two weeks each year at the end of February and start of March, thousands of individuals, companies and groups across the UK come together to share the stories of the people who grow our food and drinks. mine our gold and who grow the cotton in our clothes, people who are often exploited and underpaid.

In 2021, Fairtrade Fortnight will feel very different. 2020 has been a hard year for everyone and we know that physically campaigning and meeting people will continue to be challenging in 2021 but we have also heard from so many of you that you want to continue to support Fairtrade through this time.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us more than ever how interconnected we are globally. This interconnection is at the very heart of the Fairtrade message and is where your role begins. You are part of the Fairtrade movement and you have the power to drive long-term change, not only with your shopping choices but with your support in spreading the message. We just have to do this a little differently in 2021!

World Children’s Day 20.11.20

The Rights Respecting Champions of Nettlesworth Primary School did us all proud today when they hosted their very own Virtual Assembly to raise the awareness of World Children’s Day.

The each spoke to the rest of the school via TEAMs, addressing the global issues of Climate Change.

Well done to our champions, and to the rest of our school on a fabulous effort around this topical issue.