On Monday 22nd July, Nutfield Church Primary School had some very special guests of the feathered variety visit the school. As a special treat for the children organised by our amazing PTFA leads, Mrs Russell and Mrs Rowland, Henfold Birds Of Prey joined us in the fields after lunch for a fantastic birds in flight display!

Henfold Birds Of Prey is a family venture run by Barry Ryder, helped by his daughter Willow and partner Jane. Barry has over thirty five years experience in caring for and flying these stunning birds.

You can find out more about Henfold Birds of Prey by visiting their website below:

http://henfoldbirdsofprey.co.uk/

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Over the past few weeks, Year 5 have been learning about the book Hidden Figures. As part of their work based on the class text, ‘Hidden Figures’, the children have been designing a rocket to help the UK land on the moon. They have designed their own rocket and their own spacesuit. Using these, they have written persuasive leaflets and PowerPoints to persuade Miss Mitchell to choose theirs over another group’s. This week they have also made models of their rockets and on Thursday afternoon, they blasted them into space!

Linking to our Rocket Project they learnt about the science behind how their rockets fly; the air pressure in the bottles. When setting the rockets off, the children had to add water to create pressure in the bottle. They then needed to ensure the bottle was air tight using a polystyrene ball. Using a ball pump, each group pumped air into the bottle and the pressure made the rockets fly. Year 5 found that the faster the children pumped, the higher the rocket flew.

Our annual Music concert took place on Thursday 11th July 2019 at 6pm. Mrs Cordey has done a wonderful job of organising the evening and has been very busy auditioning and preparing the performers!

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all parents and carers who joined us on the evening to showcase the many musical talents of our children; drummers, violinists, singers and signers to name but a few!

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

Thank you for all of your support, helping the children to prepare their products to sell this week. They have promoted their business enterprise by making posters and distributing flyers around the school.

These methods of advertising give an informative message about their products and attempt to persuade others to buy them.

The children worked really hard during their end of year enterprise project.

On Friday morning, 12^th July, Year R and Year 1 went outside for a team building and getting to know you session. Next year, the two classes will be the KS1 Phase. So Mrs Rutter and Mrs Cordey took the children outside. Firstly we used a team building exercise so the children could work together.

Next we did paired reading so that Year R could see just what fantastic readers they can become with lots of hard work! Finally we used drama and freeze frame to reproduce the front cover of our paired reading session.

As you can see, a lovely time was had by all!!

We are all looking forward to the magnificent Year 6 production entitled “Pantastic“, which will be showing for two nights only on Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th July 2019. Curtain call on both nights is 6 pm so please do your very best to join us on one of our nights to enjoy this wonderful adaption of the classic tale of “Peter Pan and the Lost Boys“.

Rehearsals for our production are going well. The children are very enthusiastic and have been working extremely hard. On the nights of our production, it is important that the children are in school on time in order to get dressed in their costumes. Year 6 children should arrive at the school at 5.15 pm with a bottle of water.

We took a few pictures of our talented stage actors during their dress rehearsal today, which can be seen in the gallery below. Please click on the thumbnails below for a larger view. We look forward to seeing you all.