​Good morning, 
 
Our school nurse Steph is holding drop in sessions on Wednesday 5th March.
 
The school nursing service are able to support and advise on all aspects of child health, development and parenting including – sleep, healthy eating and behaviour. If you would like to make an appointment with our school nurse to discuss one of these matters please email me directly by Friday 14th February. 
 
If you would like advice or support regarding toileting Steph will be happy to take the details to pass on to the continence team. 
 
Please email [email protected] with your child's name, date of birth and a brief note of the area to be discussed. This will remain confidential but it allows Steph to be prepared. 
 
Please be aware that these sessions are very popular and we will make our best efforts to accommodate all. 
 
 
Kind regards, 
 
Julie Rice

Dear Parents and Carers,
 
We are holding a fundraiser on Wednesday 19th March to support Stockport food bank and Make-a-wish. We would like each child to bring in £1 and a tin or food item of your choice. On this day we would like everyone to wear odd shoes. (The crazier the better!)

A bit about the charities:
We are supporting Stockport food bank to provide three days, nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people. On the other hand, Make-a-wish is part of a global movement that grants life changing wishes that have the power to turn tears into cheers.
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We thank everyone for your support. We can’t wait for this exciting day to come!
Many thanks,

Dear Parents and Carers,

Book fortnight is a special two weeks in school designated to raising the profile of reading for pleasure and helping the children to recognise the importance of reading. Reading for pleasure opens up new worlds for our children. It gives them the opportunity to use their imagination to explore new ideas, visit new places and meet new characters. Interestingly, reading for pleasure also improves children’s well-being and empathy. It helps them to understand their own identity and gives them an insight into the world and the views of others.

This year, book fortnight will run from Monday 24th February and our focus for book fortnight is around hunger and food poverty. Through exploring books around these topics the children will have the opportunity to empathise with others and understand why it is important to eat a healthy balanced diet. We will be using Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a stimulus for this theme, exploring the characters and their actions in this story. We will also link our Design and Technology learning about food to this theme and the children will be designing, making and evaluating their own food creations!
 
Home Learning
In addition, during this fortnight, the children will also be involved in many other activities to promote a love of reading. For home learning we would like the children to create their own book character from a healthy fruit or vegetable. We would also like the children to write a label for their book character telling us who their character is and also displays their own name and class on it.

Dear Parents and Carers,

This half term is moving at pace and the children have achieved many things in the four weeks since our return to school. We have unfortunately had a lot of our children unwell but we are hoping as we nudge towards spring, we are healthier.

Children's Mental Health Week
Thank you to those of you who attended our coffee morning for Children's Mental Health Week this morning. This will be a focus of learning for the children across this week. This is the link to the official website for the week if you would like to explore this further - https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/. School staff are obviously willing to discuss anything related to children's mental health with you.

Parent Teacher Meetings
Parent and teacher meetings are scheduled for Tuesday 4th March and Thursday 6th March. For Nursery parents there is an additional session on Wednesday 5h March in the morning. We will be using the online booking system again for you to be able to book appointments. The system will go live later today and we will send a text to inform you that appointments are available for booking. If you have any queries about how to use the system, please contact our office team. For parents of children in Mrs Matthews' class we will not be taking bookings at this point. We will look to arrange appointments as soon as possible. If in the meantime, you would like to talk to us about your child, please either contact myself or Sian Murphy.

Parents' Association News
The movie nights were well attended and raised £750. Thank you to the PA team who cooked for the children and thank you to the staff team for supervising the children. We have a school disco this Thursday with a 'Love is in the Air theme. The discos are on Thursday 6*h February - for Nursery, Reception, Y1 and Y2 the disco is from 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm and for Years 3 - 6 the disco is from 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm. The entry cost is £3. For more information, please see the PA website (www.norburyhallpa.co.uk). Friday 14th February will be a non-uniform day as it is Valentine's Day. The children can come in something suitable to mark the day or just something they find comfortable to wear. Please bring a £1 cash donation to support the PA.

Parking
Our School Council have been working hard to encourage responsible parking around our school. You will have noticed that we have cones in certain locations to deter parking. Shortly, you will be seeing banners go up to support this initiative. The School Council held a competition for the children in school to design a banner. Well done to Oakley in Year 2 who was the winner.

Safeguarding
Safeguarding our children at Norbury Hall is at the heart of all we do. Please do not be offended if your children attend Norbury Tinkers after school and school staff will not let you enter the building to pick them up. It is important that you use the Norbury Tinkers doorbell so that they can supervise the collection of your children.

Website
We are in the process of updating our school website and we are very nearly ready to go live. We are very pleased with how the new site is looking. Once live, we would welcome your feedback. There are statutory items that have to go on a school website but we want the new website to be informative for our current parents and carers as well as parents or carers who may be new to our school. Your feedback will help us to achieve this. We will send a text to inform you when the website is available.

Primary Sports Coaching - February Half Term Holiday Club
Please see the following message from Primary Sports Coaching:
Primary Sports Coaching Limited are delighted to be running our established multi sports holiday course at Norbury Hall Primary School this February Half Term.

The course will be led by PSCL's coaching team who work every day in primary schools delivering lunchtime ports, after school clubs and PE lessons.

Jordan Fletcher will be leading the course. Jordan is qualified sports coach and can normally be found delivering sports sessions at St Pauls Primary School in Withington. Jordan will be supported by Amy Shipton who the children will know from lunchtime sessions and after school club at Norbury Hall Primary School.

If you would like to attend our fantastic holiday course please book soon as places are limited (https://primaryscl.coordinote.cloud/project/60548)
Our ethos is to provide a fun and exciting experience for all children that attend our holiday clubs. We want every child to experience a variety of sports and help them create a lifelong love of sport and physical activity. PSCL Holiday Courses are a registered Ofsted provider, all of our settings are on the voluntary part of the childcare register.
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Key Information
Monday 17h February - Friday 21" February
Boys and Girls aged 5 - 12 years old can attend PSCL Holiday Courses. Children currently in reception can attend specific courses from 9am - 12.45pm. They are not able to access our early drop off.

Times and Prices of Courses
Children can be dropped off from 9am. Children can be collected from 3.30pm.
Standard Day - £22
Reception Child Day - £14
Sibling Discount
Discounts are available for siblings attending together. Please use discount code 'SIBLING25' to reduce the cost to £19.50 per child per day.

Week Discount
When you book a 5 day week use our discount code 'FULLWK' to discount the price to £100 per week

Wrap Around Care
Early drop off - 8am - 8.55am = £3.50 per child, per morning Stay and Play - 3.30pm - 5pm = £4.50 per child, per afternoon.

Thank you as ever for your support.

The children across the nursery have been busy creating a Kindness Garden together. 

We talked about what made us feel happy and how we can make each other smile in circle time!

​The children explored a range of materials to make their flowers and then had lots of fun painting, cutting and sticking and finally adding sparkles and glitter to this masterpiece!
 
We hope our Kindness Garden is enjoyed by all those who are visiting our school, as it will be displayed in the school hall.