We have received a very kind donation of a brand new Google Chromebook from some lovely people at Homes Partnership.

Robert Kingdon, an employee of Homes Partnership, won the chromebook in a staff raffle for charity and could donate it to a school of his choice and he chose Northgate Primary! The scheme was set up by Goodlord Tenant Referencing, who set up a GoFundMe page with the purpose of securing laptops for homeschooling and pupil development, after he listened to a debate in Parliament about how many children in the UK were struggling to learn. Goodlord’s Sales & Marketing teams have been working closely with this debate, and we're donating £200.00 every other month to go towards this. In return, Goodlord have decided to give laptops that we and our incredible customers can then gift to schools of their choice.

The staff and children are ever so grateful to be chosen and loved receiving their new equipment!

The children and staff celebrated 'Dare to be Different Day' on Friday! 

We had odd shoes, rainbow hair, mismatched clothes, pyjamas and more to show that it is good to be different! 

Year 5 girls visited K2 for the indoor cricket festival this afternoon to learn some extra skills before some of them compete next week in the year 5/6 Crawley Schools indoor cricket tournament. Thank you to TBCC sports leaders, Sussex Cricket and Mr Hand for organising the event. They had a great time and even got to play a mini match against the year 10 sports leaders!

Y5 have been preparing and making their own pasties in cooking! The children sent a survey round to all staff asking for their preferred pasty fillings and have selected the top results to make. 

The children prepared all the food including washing, chopping and adding the spices and preparing the pastry! 

Wednesday saw our year 4s & 6s compete in the Oriel & Hazelwick cluster schools captain ball & basketball competitions, respectively.  (Captain ball is a variation of bench ball, where a receiving area is used instead of benches and only one person is in the receiving area)

Both teams won all 4 of their games making Northgate Cluster champions!  Well done all who competed!

Well done to the year 5&6 boys who participated in the boy's football festival at K2 on Thursday. Both teams played extremely well and showed excellent sportsmanship throughout the tournament, even when they found themselves playing each other!

The sports hall athletics squad had a busy Monday morning competing at K2. They came firstin the boys vertical jump and chest push, second in the boys 2x1 and 4x1 lap relays and javelin, and girls chest push, obstacle relay and over/under relay. The boys came third overall and the girls 6th out of all the Crawley primary schools. Well done team.

Y5 have been out gardening with Mr Stringer! The children love getting their muddy clothes and wellies on and exploring the gardens we have at Northgate. The children learn about how to plant, water and take care of their own vegetables and also how to compost.