During our History topic, we set up a grocer’s shop in our shared area. The children brought in scarves and hats to look the part. We chose a selection of products that customers could have bought back in the 1930s and placed everything behind the counter with a shop assistant, complete with an old fashioned till and scales as it would have been then.
The children were allowed to role play in the area as shop keeper and customers. They loved it!
On Tuesday 1st December Year 3 and 4 Faith Team members Milo, Emilia, Elodie and Lennon led Year 3 and 4’s Collective Worship in the hall. On Wednesday 9th December Year 5 and 6 Faith Team members, Adam, Jessie, Amelie and Gabriel led Year 5 and 6’s Collective Worship in the hall. The Faith Team lead Collective Worship once a term and this is a particular highlight of their role! Ordinarily, all of the Faith Team members would lead Collective Worship together for the whole school. Sadly, this is not possible at the moment, but we were all pleased that the children still had the opportunity to lead a Collective Worship with their phase group.
This term, during Collective Worship our focus has been on stories from the Old Testament. With this in mind, the Faith Team lead a Collective Worship based on the story of Jonah and the Whale. Jonah and the Whale is a well-known story from the Bible with the key message of being sorry and asking for forgiveness. The Faith Team explored this message through the Bible story and talked about how saying sorry isn’t always easy, but how it is important when we’ve done something wrong it is the first step to making things better again.
At Nutfield Church Primary School each child is ‘housed’ in a team. Our teams represent the saints of the British Isles and each of these Saints is given a colour. On Monday 30th November we celebrated St. Andrew’s Day.
St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, Greece and Russia and was Christ’s first disciple. We celebrated this day with special Collective Worships in each class and children in the St Andrew’s team wore blue clothes. On Friday the 27th of November Year 5 helped raise the St. Andrew’s flag in anticipation of the day.
They said a prayer dedicated to St. Andrew and listened to his story.
A Prayer for St Andrew’s Day
God, our loving Father,
St Andrew introduced Peter,
the Greek visitors,
& the little boy with loaves & fishes,
to your Son, Jesus Christ.
May we be like him
in sharing friendship and hospitality,
and in faithfulness to Jesus
and his Kingdom of justice,
love & peace.
May our country be a community
in which everyone matters,
everyone has an honoured place,
and the dignity of each is assured
by our faith in you as Father of us all.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
AMEN
Odd socks week 2020 was a roaring success. From Reception to Year 6 we have been treated some weird and wacky socks really highlighting that at Nutfield Church Primary we are all different, and we like it that way. During Collective Worship we discussed with each year group what bullying is and to our joy the amount that the children understand is staggering.
They knew that bullying was a repeat action, they also knew all the different types of bullying there are. This week has been a fantastic starting point and the anti-bullying team are looking forward to continuing the excellent work already in place.
On Wednesday 18th November all of the children participated in a sponsored run in aid of the Renewed Hope Trust’s Winter Night Project. Years 1 and 2, Years 3 and 4 and Years 5 and 6 ran together in their respective phase groups, completing laps of the school field.
Year R participated too running laps of the playground. The children all made a super effort to run as many laps as they could in the time given in order to raise money for this most worthwhile charity. The Winter Night Project runs during the coldest months of the year, from December through March, and is hosted by various churches across the Reigate and Banstead and Tandridge areas.
With the help and dedication of a large team of trained volunteers, they provide a warm evening meal, the hand of friendship, a safe place to sleep and a lovely breakfast the following morning. Every penny raised goes directly to helping homeless people in our local.
Thank you so much to all of your who have donated so far through our school online payment system Scopay, we have raised in excess of £200 so far which is fantastic – thank you! If you haven’t had chance to donate it’s not too late and can be done through Scopay, we will be sending the Renewed Hope Trust the cheque just before we break up for the Christmas holidays. Thank you so much for all your support – we will let you know the final total we raise!
During our History topic, we set up a grocer’s shop in our shared area. The children brought in scarves and hats to look the part. We chose a selection of products that customers could have bought back in the 1930’s and placed everything behind the counter with a shop assistant, complete with an old fashioned till and scales as it would have been then. The children were allowed to role play in the area as shop keeper and customers.
They loved it!
Thank you to Redhill and Reigate Rotary Club who have donated dictionaries to our Year 6 children as part of the Dictionaries4Life project. The Redhill and Reigate Rotary club have donated dictionaries to the Year 6 children at Nutfield Church school for a number of years now and they are always well received by our children. They are not only a great point of reference but also very enjoyable to browse through.
On Wednesday 30th September Year 4 set off for their three-day adventure to High Ashurst. Although it was a little cold and wet, the mood was one of excitement! The focus of day one was very much on communication and teamwork.
The children followed the instructions quickly and worked well as a team, which really impressed our instructors! During the afternoon the children turned their hand to orienteering and archery. Orienteering was such a hit with the children, that they were keen to do more once back at school!
Day two saw a significant improvement in the weather, which was just as well as this was the day that we were going to tackle the high ropes! However, before the high ropes the children were in the woods making amazing dens and starting camp fires to keep warm. After lunch it was time to take on the high ropes. All of the Children, without exception went out of their comfort zone during this exercise. Each and every one pushed themselves to try and go further, or go higher. It was a joy to watch them!
During the morning of day three we tackled more team building tasks which included blindfolds, an assault course and finally navigating through a spider’s web! After lunch we turned to the climbing wall. Once again, the children tackled this activity with real energy and commitment. Each and every one of them set themselves a target, and each and every one of the children bettered their target!
The children should feel incredibly proud of themselves. They conducted themselves commendably while we were at High Ashurst and really pushed themselves outside of their comfort zones. Thank you to all our instructors from High Ashurst who were absolutely brilliant across all three days!
On Wednesday 16th, Thursday the 17th and Friday 18th of October, Year 5 experienced three days of watersports at Mercers Park – a lake-based watersports centre on the doorstep of Redhill. The children were split into 4 equal groups and worked together to learn new water skills such as paddleboarding, kayaking, sailing and windsurfing.
The children also had the opportunity to build rafts and then use these to rescue Miss Mitchell, who had been taken by the ‘evil pirate Esmee’ and left stranded on the pontoon on the other side of the lake! We are happy to report that the children’s raft building skills meant that they successfully managed to rescue Miss Mitchell!
Miss Mitchell and Mr Peluso were very proud of the children’s conduct and enthusiasm throughout the three days and it did not go unnoticed by members of the public either. The class received 6 (yes 6) compliments from members of the public and one email of well-done from the centre, which is included below for you to read. Miss Woods was absolutely delighted and due to their exemplary behaviour, Year 5 were awarded an ‘Ambassador’s Playtime’ to celebrate their successes!
‘I just wanted to send a quick thank you on behalf of all of the staff here at Aqua Sports that had the pleasure of working with your year 5s this week. They were a pleasure to teach and are truly a credit to the school! Being their first school trip in a long time we weren’t sure what to expect in all honesty. But the manner in which they conducted themselves around the centre and on the water was impeccable. Easy to teach and very forthcoming with questions and interest in the sports, we would love to have them back as soon as possible!’
Christ Church PCC would like to continue to support Renewed Hope Trust by collecting items of food that can be used in their Drop-in Centre in Redhill and for their Food Bank. We have received an amazing response from parents and children over the last two years, so would like to operate the collection as we have done before, by asking the children in each year group at Nutfield Church School to collect a specific item. The aim is to help the children to understand what someone with no home, who doesn’t know where they will be sleeping from one night to another,
needs to survive.
Please could you ask parents/each child to bring items specified for their particular year, ensuring that the items are well within the ‘use by’ date and of good quality.
NO soup of any kind.
