On Thursday 20th May we will be having a Fish & Chip festival on the field (weather permitting) . If your child is free school meals then they will automatically be ordered one on the day. If your child is not free school meals then you can pay for one by sending £2.10 in a sealed envelope to your childs Class Teacher. Your child can also still bring in a packed lunch on that day if they wish.

Swimming will be available for years 3,4 & 6 from June onwards. Details of swimming days and times will be sent home in due course. 

You might have seen us on the BBC local news last week - the children did us proud as the BBC filmed part of our election process.

Read on below to find out more about what we have been doing:

This week we are running a mock general election in the run up to the real one.

Thursday just like in the rest of the UK it is election day here at Northgate. 

Children from year 3 upwards have been forming their own political parties focussed on the issues they care about.

In groups of three or four, they have also written manifestos and held mock hustings with each class in the school voting for the most persuasive party and team presentation.

We’ve had a fantastic response from our pupils who feel strongly about a range of different issues and they have been expressing that during a series of class hustings.

Our mock general election helps prepare our pupils to play an active part in society, aids their understanding of the democratic process and inspires them to develop ideas to improve the world around them.

Pupils’ campaign ideas have covered a range of topics including lifestyle issues such as encouraging children to exercise more and to eat more healthily, having more recycling bins in school and reducing plastic in pack lunches, doing more to help the homeless and raising taxes amongst higher earners to help public services such as the NHS.

here are some of the views of our children on what's important to them: 

“Children and adults need to do more about climate change because it is really important,”  Kristyna Chuckwuji aged 9.

“Children should do more exercise so they can get fitter and healthier,” Alex Curry, aged 9.

“We were learning about how to change and improve school and the environment by voting,” Ajijan Thavakumar, aged 8.

Ashley, and his sons Preston and Chase slept out at the City Ground to help raise money for Framework (the housing charity that supports homeless people and people who have issues with housing). Framework have even supported some of our families at Northgate.

Ashley and the boys slept in one of the teepees that the classes made for our Writing Celebration Day.

Recycling and the 5Rs in action in one go!!!  Well done to the three of you.

See the Nottingham Post article below.

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/its-way-doing-something-help-3572340

Last week a group of  of our Year 5's went to Nottingham Concert Hall to celebrate how children can make a difference within their school and local community.

it was a fantastic day and the children came back buzzing with enthusiasm.

There's a short video here that Nottingham Forest have created to celebrate the event. A couple of our children appear on it briefly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XurzBu-MxQ

Following on from this some children went to John Quinn Court this week to learn about Dementia Friends. They came back with a real passion for helping people and some ideas for what they could do.