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.

On Thursday 13th February, Reception enjoyed an action-packed day full of challenges during Superhero Day. The heroes were asked to attempt a range of tasks in order to complete their superhero training.

Their tasks included:

• Navigating their way through ‘lasers’.
• Making boats out of different junk modelling materials to help toys across crocodile-infested waters.
• Shooting ‘baddies’ with ‘special’ words on using water guns.
• Saving trapped toys from ice
• Writing secret superhero messages using UV pen.
• Unlocking padlocks on the superheroes by working out the addition number sentence and finding the corresponding key with the answer.

All of the superheroes completed their challenges brilliantly and received a special superhero certificate at the end of the day. The children looked fantastic in their costumes, thank you so much parents for making such an effort!

As part of our Well-being curriculum, this term our whole school event is Working Week. We have added a dress up day to our list of events – on Monday 23rd March, we will start Working Week by inviting the children to dress up to represent the job they would like to do when they grow up.

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 let us know.

This week, as part of our topic on The Anglo Saxons, Year 5 have designed and made some rather authentic looking Anglo-Saxon brooches.

We took some pictures of our classroom display close up to give you a better look at these colourful items of ancient jewellery. Please click on the thumbnails below for a larger view.