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Norwood Crescent, Southport. PR9 7DU. Tel: 01704 211960. Fax 01704 232712. Head Teacher: Mr Lee Dumbell.
Email: [email protected] www.norwoodprimaryschool.com
Issue 15 17th December 2010
Norwood News
TERM DATES
Term Ends:Friday 17th December. School closes at 2pm
Spring Term 2011
Children return to schoolWednesday 5th January at 8.55am
Half Term:Monday 14th-Friday 18th February
Term Ends:Friday 1st April. School closes at 2pm
Summer Term 2011
Children return to schoolTuesday 19th April at 8.55am
School closed:Good Friday 22nd AprilEaster Monday 25th April
Children return to schoolTuesday 26th April at 8.55am
School closed:Bank Holiday Friday 29th April
School closed:Bank Holiday Monday 2nd May
Half Term:Mon 30th May-Fri 3rd June
School closed:Friday 1st July(Staff training day)
Term Ends:Friday 22nd July. School closes at 2pm
Autumn Term 2011
School Closed Thursday 1st
September Friday 2nd September
Children return to schoolMonday 5th September
Arts Festival Countdown
30 weeks to go
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school office for further details.
No music sessions until week
commencing 9th January 2011
All the Christmas performances were special with the Year 1's battling against chicken pox and the Year 2 performance seeing some of the best dancing ever seen on stage at
Norwood. Once again the Key Stage 2 Carol Concert proved to be a lovely evening and enjoyed by everyone as a terrific community event. I would like to thank Reverand
Knight and everyone at Leyland Road Methodist Church for making us so welcome. Our
Year 6 children are demonstrating real maturity and a great attitude, which was commented upon by one of our visitors who is training the children to be Lunchtime
Play Leaders. She spoke very enthusiastically and with a lot of pride about their attitude
and their enthusiasm, which she has not previously experienced in any other school she has worked in. I am also delighted with our new and much improved topics, which have been welcomed with much enthusiasm by the children and staff alike. it has also been wonderful to note how our focus on Maths this year has seen interest and energy for
this subject grow and Mathletics does appear to be a welcome addition to our growing resources. I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the staff for their hard work,
enthusiasm and support for the school, which goes beyond the 9 o'clock to 3.15
schedule that everyone appears to think teachers do. Here at Norwood we are very lucky to have such a hard-working and dedicated staff, which is clear to be seen from
the number of activites that are run for the children, the number of extra special events
organised and their participation in the whole life of the school. Therefore I would like to wish them a relaxing Christmas and also to send our best wishes to Mrs. Baron, who continues on the road to recovery after her treatment for cancer. We hope to have her
back before February half-term.
My final wishes are that all the children and parents enjoy the time over the Christmas holidays together. May we get enough snow to enjoy and that it disappears as quickly
as it arrives.
Happy Christmas!
So we reach the end of another term at Norwood and on looking back it has been a really exciting and busy
term again and I am delighted with the way the year has started out. The Reception children have settled
into their new surroundings very smoothly, which
reached a new high last week when they performed their "Twelve Days of Christmas" in front of a packed
and enraptured audience.
Christmas Message
Norwood Crescent, Southport. PR9 7DU. Tel: 01704 211960. Fax 01704 232712. Head Teacher: Mr Lee Dumbell.
Email:[email protected] www.norwoodprimaryschool.com
Leyland Road Carol Concert
On Tuesday 7th December, KS2 delivered a fantastic carol service. Singing club opened the concert with two great songs getting everybody into the Christmas spirit. Yr 4 took to the stage next singing their hearts out to everyone. Before long,
Years 5 and 6 did a fantastic rendition of A Christmas Carol starring, Scrooge, Jacob Marley, Mr. Fezziwig and Co. Next, Yr 3 told the story of Christmas through verse.
It was a wonderful night and everyone enjoyed themselves.
We hope the following years will be even better.
By Lucy Cottier 6P and Ruby Fellowes 6C
Reception “Our Twelve Days of
Christmas”
Year 1“The Wiggly Nativity”
Year 2“Twas the Night Before Christmas”
CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE EXCITING PHOTOGRAPHS @ www.norwoodprimaryschool.com
Children in the Spotlight
Isabelle has passed her 5m Rainbow Swimming
award. Brilliant!
Nathan has passed his Level 4 Swimming
award. Super!
Anya has 3 gymnastics medals for individual pieces in a recent
club competition, one of which was GOLD on the beam.
She also received a silver for
her floorwork in a North West competition. Anya has been selected for Lancashire U10's
Girls Football Squad. Fantastic!Erin has passed her 25m Swimming
award. Congratulations!
Alex has 4 gymnastics medals for individual pieces in a recent
club competition and one overall silver medal.
He also received 2 gold medals
for his floorwork and parallel bars. Awesome!
Katie has passed her 200m Rainbow
Swimming award. Wow!
Brooke and Morgan have passed their 25m Rainbow
Swimming award. Wonderful!
Naomi received a certificate of merit in her club's Annual
Gymnastics Championships and got a medal for 3rd place in a gymnastics competition.
Marvellous!
The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal
The School Council would like to say a very big thank you to everyone who supported this appeal, by buying poppies in
school. We collected a grand total of £104.23 for such a worthy cause.
News team Molly Glinn, Hannah Tear, Megan Powderly, Jamie Russell, Katy Watkinson, Taylor McKenzie & Finn Cromack
Getting to know our Governors
Our reporters have recently tracked down our very busy governors to ask them about their roles.
Pictured here is Mrs King who as well as being a Governor, also works in the school office.
Mrs King being ‘grilled’ by Katy & Jamie, two of our reporters.
Q. What made you want to be a Governor of Norwood?(Molly Glinn Y6)
A. There are so many new and exciting things going on at school and I wanted to help to make them happen
Q. Have any of your family ever been to this school and if so did they enjoy it?
(Taylor McKenzie Y3)A. My son is in year 2 and he loves coming to school.
Q. What do you do as a Governor? (Hannah Tear)
A.We talk with Mr Dumbell about what is going on in school and help him to make plans so the school can be even more
fun and exciting.
Q. How much of your time is taken up by being a Governor? (Finn Cromack Y3)
A. We meet 2 or 3 times a term, usually when the children have gone home. We also like to visit school for special events such as Carol Concerts and Fairs and sometimes
during the school day to see what the children are doing in class.
Star of the Week
RJT:Taylor McNulty Silver RJT:Whole Class
RT:Cuan Potts RT:Whole Class 1B:Elise Hanks
1B:Jordan Potts 1D:Grace Maciver 2M:Josh Leddy
2M:Jessica Laverty 2W:Jessica Lakin-Ward2W:Ruby Pearce Silver 3K:Jessica Harrison
3K:Brooke Shotton 3H:Liam Hefferan 3H:Bekki Hayes
4M:Lauren Merryfield4M:Jamie Marsh4P:Joanna Meyler
5B:Freya Hanson Lewis5B:Lauren Rodwell 5M:Maria Gowers5M:Laurence Fredricks
6C:Lauryn Richards 6C:Samantha Curry6C:Errin Telford
6P:Harry O’Driscoll
Eamon Riley, author, is coming to visit our school on Tuesday 11th January at 1pm. He will read some of his stories to the children and talk about being an author. He will be in
selling his books after school.
Eamon Riley
Spring Term Topics
In order to support parents and enable children to start any research or fact finding on their next topic, here are themes for Spring term.
Reception - Penguin Small (Winter)
Year 1 - Tales Old and New (Fairy Stories and Traditional tales)
Year 2 - Night-time (The Owl Babies and other nocturnal events)
Year 3 - Invasion! (Romans, Vikings and Saxons)
Year 4 - Funny Bones - (Moving and Growing)
Year 5 - Out of this World - (Earth and Space)
Year 6 - Your Country Needs You! - (World War 2)
Norwood Crescent, Southport. PR9 7DU. Tel: 01704 211960. Fax 01704 232712. Head Teacher: Mr Lee Dumbell.
Email:[email protected] www.norwoodprimaryschool.com
Year 3 Diwali Day
Rosie, Sian, Millie, Niamh & Star are enjoying tasting Bombay potato, naan bread, vegetable simosa & onion bhaji as part of their Diwali Day.
Ryan & Sophie have created
their own clay Diva lamps.
Wow! Some of the finished Diva lamps.Don’t they look great with the candles lit?
Take a look at these pictures on
our website, they look fantastic in
colour.
Year 3 have been learning about the Hindu Festival of Diwali as part of their Festivals & Celebrations topic.
3K lit up the room with their Diva lamps.Cameron, Joshua, Spencer, Natasha, Isobel & Niamh in 3K have painted these beautifully.
Norwood Crescent, Southport. PR9 7DU. Tel: 01704 211960. Fax 01704 232712. Head Teacher: Mr Lee Dumbell.
Email:[email protected] www.norwoodprimaryschool.com
Year 6 Diwali Day
Last Thursday, Year 6 children celebrated the Hindu Festival of Diwali by making lanterns out of recycled jars and tissue paper. At
the end of the day, the children stayed in school until it had gone dark and took their lanterns in to the playground to light. We also
set off some sky lanterns and watched them float off in to the
distance. With all the lights gleaming in the distance, it was a magical and exciting night. Mrs Coleman and Mr Postlethwaite
would like to thank all parents and teachers that came to help. We
had great fun. Children celebrated the Hindu Festival of Diwali by making lanterns out of recycled jars and tissue paper.
Up to half term these children’s behaviour really stood out and they reached the pot of gold:
If your child reached the pot of gold last term but their name doesn’t appear on the list above please mention this to the class teacher.
POGS
Pictured here is the festival being
celebrated in Thailand. Quite
stunning when lots of
lanterns are set off together.
Cody Nickeas RJTDaniel Williams RTT
Elliot Unsworth RRTEmily James 3KFinn Cromack 3K
Hannah Gray 3HIsobel Mills 3K
Kate Bishop 4MMatthew Vansprang-Rimmer 5M
Nail-Emre Cakir 3KRuby Fellows 6CRyan Graham 3H
William Carroll 6CZoe King 6C
