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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 2 10th September 2010

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TERM DATES

Autumn Term 2010

New to Reception Children

Start part time from

Monday 6th September

and full time from Monday

20th September

Half term:

Monday 25th -Friday 29th

October

School closed:

Monday 1st November

(Staff training day)

Term Ends:

Friday 17th December. School

closes at 2pm

Spring Term 2011

Children return to school

Wednesday 5th January at

8.55am

Half Term:

Monday 14th-Friday 18th

February

Term Ends:

Friday 1st April. School closes

at 2pm

Summer Term 2011


Tuesday 19th April at 8.55am

School closed:

Good Friday 22nd April

Easter Monday 25th April


Tuesday 26th April at 8.55am

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

3Arts Festival Countdown

42 weeks to go

Eco Day

At the end of last term Year 3 were lucky to have Ann-Marie Clegg, who is a Recycling/

Environmental Education Officer to show them how to make their own paper.

It was a rather messy process but fun to do!

Lewis & Declan prepare the squeezed

paper for drying.

Poppy & Lucie place the paper pulp

into the frame.

Adam, Joe, Oliver & Michael use the

frame.

Jamie, Daniel, Lewis, Declan & Ben

discussing the process.

Upcoming dates for your diary

Due to parental requests, we are holding Year Group Information meetings in the

evening. Here are the proposed times, as discussed:

These meetings are for parents/carers only.

Tuesday 14th September 6.00pm Year 2

Tuesday 14th September 6.30pm Year 5

Wednesday 15th September 6.00pm Year 1

Wednesday 15th September 6.30pm Year 3

Thursday 16th September 6.00pm Year 4

Thursday 16th September 6.30pm Year 6

Thursday 16th September Reception 7.00pm

More formal Parent’s Evenings will take place on Tues 23rd/Thurs 25th November

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Brooke, Niamh & Ellie took part in the 5th Heathrow International Gym Club

Championships 2010 and received gold medals in their trio event. Brilliant!

Joshua has passed

his stage 3 National

Swim Plan Award.

Fantastic!

Tom became the Youth

Champion in the SIS

Criterium League 2010. He

also came 3rd in the Moto

X 65 competition,

organised by the Lancs

Grass Track Junior Rider’s

Club. Superb!

Children in the Spotlight

Shinewaves Competition Time

Welcome back to competition time.

We have changed our broadcast day from Tuesday to Thursday to give you a bit more time to enter the competitions if you

want to.

Now, this year is an Arts Festival Year -YIPPEE!! Most of you will know that Norwood is renowned for its Arts Festivals. We

have so much to look forward to: drawing, painting, music making, singing, authors, dancing and much, much more! The

theme of the festival, this year, is ‘Once Upon A Time’

So, this week’s competition is to design a festival logo. It must be a black and white design, either drawn or computer

generated. It must be enclosed in a shape around 8cm wide by 5cm high and can include an image if you wish. The

following information MUST be included: The words ‘Arts Festival’ the date ‘4th - 15th July’ All Norwood pupils are invited to

enter and there will be a prize for the winner.

The winning logo will be incorporated into the t-shirt. There will be another competition, next year, to design the image for

the t-shirt. SO... get designing!

Pop your entries, with your name and class on the back, into the competition post box by the morning of Wed 15th

September.









Behaviour Update

A new term and we are finally ready to roll out the changes to our behaviour system. Next week we will be

having the official launch in our assemblies. A leaflet for parents will follow, explaining how the system works.

Staff will also talk about the changes at the Year Group Information Meetings next week.

Our main goals are:

*to recognise children who are consistently well behaved

*to quickly address unacceptable standards of behaviour, involving parents at an earlier stage

*to connect our current ‘Golden Time’ to a single system of rewards and sanctions

We value your views and will be requesting your thoughts and comments on our new system when the leaflet

goes out (look on the back!).

The Behaviour Team’s next development will be to review and update the Anti-Bullying Policy.

Brownies

Brownies are aged seven to ten, they have lots of fun. Do you want to find

out more? Contact Jackie Sutton (Brown Owl) on 01704 231617 for more

information.

Local unit is at Victoria Methodist church Sussex Road Southport

Or call 0800 1 69 59 01

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Cycle Training

The majority of Year 5 and some of the children from Year 6 will undertake a Safe Cycling course which will last 4 weeks.

The course starts Friday 10th of September and hopefully at the end of the course they will all be proficient on the roads.

We wish all the children luck.

Remember your helmet & cycle lock!

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Year One Reading Fun Morning

If you have a child in Year One then please feel free to come along to our fun reading sessions every Wednesday

morning from 8:50 till 9:10. This is fantastic opportunity to share a story or two with your child and their friends. We

look forward to seeing you from next week!



The Hoot Hoot Mobile was made out of scrap materials that we found. We have worked really hard on the Hoot Hoot

Mobile . There were 6 members who helped to build it. They were Emily, Joseph and Errin Telford Age 10, from

Norwood and Eric, George and Ruby. The machine has been a great success! They all had jobs; such as bosses (Joe

& Eric) security etc. So far they have raised just over £400 for cancer research. They really enjoyed building this

piece of machinery. Joe and Eric initially came up with the idea and they soon enlisted the help of their friends. They

are also selling cancer research badges and have all received volunteer badges from the cancer research shop on

Lord street.

By Errin, Emily and Joseph Telford (6P & 6C)

The Hoot Hoot Mobile

Library Book Amnesty

Could you please check if your child still has a

library book at home as there are quite a few

overdue?

Pram/Toddler Club

Don’t forget ‘Pram Club’ (you don’t really need a pram) is

back on a Friday morning. Extended time by popular

demand, it’s now 9.00am-10.30am come along, have a

coffee and a chat.

Mrs Taylor





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