Summer
School Activities
A
group of pupils and those from a neighbouring school signed up for
extra art lessons during the holidays. They are creating three large
circular mosaics which will form the centre pieces for our Millennium Garden.
The pupils are working with coloured paper preparing the final design.
Others are cutting up tiles ready to make the three mosaic seats for our
school. The pictures show Sheila Plews the mosaic specialist teacher who
is tutoring the pupils. Watch this space for updates on the development
of the millennium garden
Mr.
Carr Retires
On Friday 23rd
July Mr. Carr our Deputy Headteacher retired after 28 years in teaching.
The children from class 3 organised a pop concert in tribute to a very
special teacher who has touched the hearts of many during his time at Nettlesworth.
They ended the concert with their own rendition of Thank you Mr. Carr (to
the theme of Thank You for the Music by Abba) as a personal thank you for
all that he has done for them. Mr. Carr has taught at our school for 15
years and is well respected by pupils past and present, staff, governors
and parents. We are all sad to see him go but it is not forever as he has
promised to return on a regular basis and will be back at school as a supply
teacher when he is not busy relaxing in his new garden shed, spending time
with his family or on the golf course.
Netball
Champions
This season our school netball team
were league champions, each player won a special shield. They were presented
with their trophies by ex-pupil Laura Brown (centre) who now plays netball
for the England team.
Field Study Visit
The children from
year five and year six spent a week away at the Middleton-in-Teesdale field
study centre. They spent the week walking in the country and studying the
local environment.
On Monday 17th May I (Kathryn Costello, ICT
Co-ordinator) attended the ceremony for the regional finals of the Lloyds
TSB Teaching Awards at Newcastle Civic Centre. To my great surprise and
delight I was named as regional winner of the Guardian Award for
Most Creative Use of ICT in a Primary School and presented with a Plato
(see picture). This award was a recognition of work carried out by the
whole school, the children, all staff, parents and governors and therefore
it is fitting that the award carries with it a cash prize of £3500
for the school.
I now go forward to the national finals
with a chance to win a total of £20,000. The national awards ceremony
will take place in London on July 11th 1999 and will be televised live
by the BBC.
The Annual Easter
Egg Competition
Every Easter the
school holds a decorated egg competition. Each child brings in a hard,
boiled egg from home which they decorate in a style of their choice. There
are first second and third prizes for each class and every child in the
school wins an easter gift (all donated by The School Community Group).
Here
are some of this year's winners.
Cross
Phase Technology Day at the Hermitage School
On Wednesday 18th November
our year six group visited the Hermitage School as part of our cross phase
technology work. Prior to the visit the children received an e-mail invitation
from their working partner from the Hermitage introducing themselves and
establishing initial contact. Our children replied and began to plan their
web pages to record the day's events.
The day was organised
into two main work blocks, one morning and one afternoon session. During
the morning session pupils from the Hermitage introduced our pupils to
the Millcam Designer Software and helped them design a door plaque. This
was then transferred to a milling machine which created the finished plaques.
In the afternoon our
pupils demonstrated our school web site and introduced their new friends
to web page authoring. The students then worked together to write individual
pages about the event.
Click
here to view the pages on our Cross Phase Web Ring.
Musical
Visitors
Today we were
visited by a Wind Quintet who came to school to entertain the children
and to tell us all about their instruments. Their instruments included
a bassoon, an oboe, a clarinet, a flute and a piccolo. They played us a
number of tunes including classical music, The Bare Necessities, The
Flintstones, and The Pink Panther Theme
tune.
The Firemen come to
Nettlesworth
On
5th November we were visited by the local fire service who came to talk
to the children about fire safety and to show us round a fire engine. We
were allowed to climb through the front of the engine and the firemen demonstrated
all of the equipment including the floodlights and the sirens. All of the
children tried on the fireman's helmet and their fireproof coats.
Benjamin
Bear goes to Australia 
Benjamin our class mascot has
gone on holiday to Watsonia North Primary School in Melbourne, Australia.
He travelled to Australia by air mail and writes to us every day from his
classroom in Australia. Whilst he is away we have been joined by Cuddles
the Koala. Cuddles stays with us in school and goes home with a different
child each night. He uses an Acorn pocketbook and a bit of Koala magic
to write a diary about his adventures in Nettlesworth. We e-mail this to
our friends in Watsonia.
Launch
of the School News
The
start of the new school year brought the launch of the "School News". This
is an information newsletter for parents, governors and friends of the
school. It is designed to keep people informed about what is happening
in and around school. The editorial team is made up of four children from
year six (Jane, David, Jordan and Abby) and our Literacy Governor ( Mrs.
Sonia Duncan ). Anyone in school wishing to submit an article should pass
it on to these pupils. We are particularly keen to feature news of past
pupils and friends of the village who may have moved away, so if you are
a Nettlesworth ex-pat then drop us a line. This is an ideal opportunity
to meet up with old friends. 
nettsch@rmplc.co.uk
Watch this space
for the on-line publication of our School News !!!!
Click on a headline
below to read our news archives.
Metro
Centre Exhibition
Launch
of UkNetYear
Pupils
meet Stephen Byers M.P.
The
Easter Egg Competition
Korean
VIPs visit Nettlesworth
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