Today's visit from Wendy Dolan. the textile artist, Y5 have been studying in art and using as inspiration for the children's own multimedia art pieces based on their spring term topic on Crawley. Wendy spent time looking at and commenting on the children's work and was so impressed with what she saw. The children then got to ask her some questions about her art and being an artist!

Thank you to the Easter Bunny who made time in his busy schedule to come and visit our children today! We are very grateful and want to say a big thank you to AJW Group for donating so many lovely eggs to our families.

Two Black Belts! 

Yasmin and Farah, Y5 Beech and Chestnut led our Y5 and Y6 assembly this week! Both girls have done amazing in getting their black belts in karate which took dedication and hard work, this is what the girls had to say: 

''We started karate when we were four years old.

Between white and black belt, we have had eighteen belts.

We had graded every three months until pre-dan belt which was red and black.

After that, we spent one year in pre-dan class.

At first, we did one class a week, then two classes, then finally, to prepare for black belt, four. But now we are back to two classes a week.

Last month, we graded for black belt. It spread over two days.  It was very hard.  The first day was skills (like punching and kicking) and also katas. The second day was fitness, which was things like running eight kilometres and push-ups.  This took four hours, but...

It paid off! And we have BLACK BELTS!''

Year 4 got to attend a tennis competition inside the tennis dome at Crawley tennis club. The teams did fantastic and showed amazing team work to score as many points as possible for Northgate!