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 16^th, Thursday the 17^th and Friday 18^th 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!’

We raised a fantastic £750 at this year’s quiz night and would like to thank everyone for their support and contributions. A fun night was had by all, with our lovely Teachers being the winning Team this year!!

As much as this is a great total, we have fallen short of last year’s figure of just over £1000. This was thanks to some match funding we received of around £350.

It really does make such a difference to us and the amounts we raise, so could we urge you all to check with your employers to see if they do match funding and let us know if you can help in the future please.

Details can be found on www.pta-events.co.uk/nutfield. We have had lots of success with our ‘Bags 2 School’ project. The amount raised was a fantastic £136 that was a super 340 kgs of clothes!

Book Fair Tuesday 17th March – Monday 23rd March

The Book Fair will be held in the hall on Tuesday 17th March – Thursday 19th March. On Friday 20th March it will be in the Year one classroom and back in the hall on Monday 23rd March. Opening times will be 3.15pm – 4pm.

Do come along and browse any books to add to your libraries! and remember to bring your Book Token. The school receives a percentage of all the profit made.

On Thursday 5th March 2020, Nutfield Church celebrated all things reading during World Book Day. Every child in the school dressed up as their favourite book character.

During the morning each class got together to do paired reading: Years R, 1 and 6, Years 2 and 4 and Years 3 and 5. As you can see from the pictures, much fun was had by all.

In addition to this, the whole school has been studying the same book for the last two week – ‘Here We Are’ by Oliver Jeffers – we look forward to showcasing this work during the upcoming Parents’ Evenings.

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

During the week commencing Monday 23rd March, we will be holding Working Week which is part of our Well-being curriculum. We will start Working Week by inviting the children to dress up to represent the job they would like to do when they are older.

Throughout the week, we aim to encourage our children to consider what they might like to do as adults and to discuss some of the jobs that exist currently. If you have a job which you would be willing to come in and talk to the children about, do please see me or let your child’s class teacher know.

Please note, we have added a dress up day to our list of events.