I am delighted to inform you that Nutfield Church Primary School has been selected as a Champion School for the 2019 Surrey Libraries’ Children’s Book Award. Mrs Cordey, our English Lead, entered the school during October half term.

Ten schools across Surrey have been selected to champion the 2019 Surrey Libraries’ Children’s Book Award with their Year 3 and 4 classes during Spring term 2019. Each school will receive five copies of each of the five shortlisted titles as well as a half-day visit from a shortlisted author or illustrator.

The children in Year 3 and 4 will I’m sure, have great fun over the coming months, reading the books and choosing their favourite!

Our Peer Mediators have been working with our Learning Mentors this term learning how to assist children in identifying and resolving conflicts.

They have now all received a yellow lanyard and are now fully operational at lunchtime in the playground.

On Thursday 28th November 2018, Mrs Jones, a parent of a year 5 pupil at Nutfield Church Primary School and a Secondary School Science Teacher came to visit year 6 to carry out a series of investigations involving dissection in order to take a closer look at the workings of a heart, a kidney, and an eyeball.

The children found this lesson absolutely fascinating and really enjoyed the experience. We took some pictures of the lesson, which can be seen in the gallery below. Please click on the thumbnails for a larger view.

Ten children from Year 2 visited Limpsfield Infant School on Friday 23^rd November to take part in a Multi-Skills festival.  The children took part in a variety of different PE skills, including dribbling a ball around cones, finding their way through an obstacle race and throwing and catching beanbags. 

They all had a marvellous time, entered into the activities with confidence and enthusiasm and supported their team mates.  Well done Year 2.

Many thanks to the parents who transported the children there and back.  We can’t do these things without you!

Nutfield Church Primary School was delighted to receive another letter from the Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP, Minister of State for School Standards, to congratulate us on our ‘Outstanding’ phonics results.

For three consecutive years, our Year 1’s have achieved 97% in the national screening check, which places Nutfield Church in the top 6% of all primary schools in the country!

His letter can be downloaded via the link below.

• Letter from Minister of State School Standards

On Friday 19th November 2018, Mrs Jones, a parent of a year 5 pupil and a secondary school science teacher came to visit year 4 to carry out a series of investigations looking at solids, liquids and gases.

The children thoroughly enjoyed using the equipment and conducting the investigations together in teams. We look forward to seeing Mrs Jones again who will be back on 30th November, this time working with year 6.

We took a few pictures of the investigations, which can be seen in the gallery below. Please click on the thumbnails for a larger view.

Children in Year 2 carried out an activity with toothpaste to understand the affects that unkind words can have on another person, as part of our anti-bullying campaign.

The children were asked to squeeze the toothpaste from the tube into the bowl. Once the tubes had been emptied, the children were tasked with putting the toothpaste back into the tube.

We then talked about the toothpaste representing unkind words and once unkind words come out of our mouths, they are difficult to ‘put back’ like the toothpaste in the tube. We then made a collective piece of art based around this activity.