There was great excitement in the playground on the morning of Thursday 28th March! Year 1 and Year 2, who have been learning about The Great Fire of London this term, have all worked very hard to create a Tudor house. Last Thursday, these were all collated to form a wonderful Tudor town, which was then set on fire to re-enact the Great Fire of London!

Fortunately, the fire service had been invited to join us for the event and were on hand to put the fire out and keep everyone safe. Once the fire was extinguished, the fire fighters joined the Year 1 and Year 2 children in class to talk in more detail about fire safety.

Each half term, we link an Anti-Bullying focus to our school value. This half term, our school value is Hope and linked to this, the Anti-Bullying Partnership children have been busy repainting the Friendship Bench.

This bench is a place where children can come and sit if they are not sure who to play with. All our children know to look out for anyone who may seem to be on their own and to keep an eye on the Friendship Bench so they can include everyone in their games.

The Friendship Bench is now bright “Nutfield” yellow and looks fantastic!

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

On Thursday 28th March 2019, the Reception and Year 5 children gathered together with some of their favourite books for a “Buddy Reading” session together.

The Reception children really enjoy reading with the older children, and likewise, our Year 5 children feel really grown up reading with the younger children, helping them along the way. It is a wonderful bonding exercise, which also involves reading some fantastic stories!

We took some pictures on the day, which can be viewed in the gallery below. Please click on the thumbnails below for a larger view.

Many of you who came to Parents’ Evening will have already seen this video which shows the children’s learning around Online Safety. 

This year, much of the learning was centred around thoughtfulness and being kind, which links with our teaching on Anti-Bullying.

Here at Nutfield Church School we teach the children to be aware of how important it is to keep themselves safe online. We cover learning points such as:keeping their personal details private, having strong passwords, checking the veracity of online sources and thinking before they post or make a comment.

Parents’ Evenings will take place on Tuesday 26th – Thursday 28th March, 3:30 – 6pm. Bookings for these meetings are now ‘live’ via Parentmail – if you have not yet signed up for a slot, please do so!

If your child has an additional need, you may have received an invitation to make a longer appointment. These can be made directly with your child’s class teacher and normally take place outside of Parents’ Evening week.

Thank you to all parents who responded to the survey on the possibility of an Activity Club run by Fletchers Feathers at Nutfield Church Primary School during the Easter holidays. 

We are pleased to inform you that a Fletchers Feathers Multi Activity/Football Camp will be running at our school from Monday, 8th April – Thursday 18th April 2019. This will be open to local children as well as children on roll at Nutfield Church Primary School for children aged 4 – 12 years.

Please note:
The Football Camps will be for Boys & Girls aged 5 – 12 years – this has been amended on the fletchers feathers website

Please see this link for further details. https://www.fletchersfeathers.com/easter

Please be advised this is an independent organisation. All enquiries, should be directed to Fletchers Feathers and not to the school.

We all had an amazing time celebrating Red Nose Day on Friday 15th March. The Year 6 Sports Leaders together with Mrs Fine and Mr Smith were busy putting the final touches to the course this week for the ‘Red Run’.

This is a wonderful opportunity for the children to have fun and at the same time, raise money to help people
living tough lives in the UK and around the world. The ‘Red Run’ will circumnavigate the school field with some exciting obstacles along the way, including a Slip and Slide, a Twisting Trail, an Army Crawl and Hurdles.

The children chose the obstacles they wanted to attempt. We asked for a voluntary contribution of £1 on the day, which will be donated to Comic Relief.  We took some pictures on the day, which can be seen in the gallery below. Please click on the thumbnails for a larger view.

On 14th March Years 5 and 6 both took part in a series of Geology workshops led by local Geologist Dr Robinson who very kindly took some time out of her busy schedule to visit us and talk to us about this fascinating subject.

Geology in a nutshell is the study of rocks. How they move, how they have changed, the different types of rocks that make up the Earth’s crust and so on.

We looked at how the continents as we know them have formed from the early land mass known as Pangea during the Triassic period, through to modern day land masses and continents as we now know them.

The children also looked at Tectonics, which is the process that controls the structure and properties of the Earth’s crust and its evolution through time. 

Dr Robinson also brought in some Fossils for us to look at. The children thoroughly enjoyed the day as we drifted back in time millions of years through the Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, right up to modern times creating a clear picture of how tectonics has directly affected the positioning of the main continents across the globe and how the seas and oceans were formed that surround them.

We took some pictures on the day showing the different workshops, which can be seen in the gallery below. Please click on the thumbnails for a larger view.