​Dear parents, 
 
Please find attached information from the Stockport Parenting Team about sessions
​to support your child with sleep. The next session is scheduled for 3rd April. 

Dear parents and carers of Norbury Hall Primary School,

Primary Sports Coaching Limited are delighted to be running our established multi sports holiday course at Norbury Hall Primary School this Easter Holidays.

The course will be led by PSCL’s coaching team who work everyday in primary schools delivering Lunchtime Sports, 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.coordinate.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.

Key Information
Monday 14th April – Thursday 17th April
Tuesday 22nd April – Friday 25th April
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 – £24
Reception Child Day – £14

Sibling Discount
Discounts are available for siblings attending together. Please use discount code ‘SIBLING25’ to reduce the cost to £21 per child per day.

Wrap Around Care
Early drop off – 8am – 8.55am = £4 per child, per morning
Stay and Play – 3.30pm – 5pm = £5 per child, per afternoon
Courses generally begin with warm up exercises and games, before progressing to the delivery, introduction and enhancement of specific skills aimed at improving your child’s ability. Each session concludes with competitive games for all to enjoy!
During a week at a PSCL multi sports course the children will play the following sports and games:

• Basketball
• Cricket
• Hockey
• Tennis
• Netball
• Dodgeball
• Rounders
• Football
• Athletics
• Target Games And much, much more…

On the final day of the courses the children will take part in an Olympic style competition. There are medals for the successful teams and individuals which are presented at the end of week presentation. Every child will receive a PSCL certificate, trophies and medals are awarded to recognise excellent efforts and achievement.

PSCL Coaching Team
All the coaches at PSCL are recruited using our stringent ‘Safer Recruitment’ process. Our coaches are trusted by over 25 schools every week to teach sports, dance and gymnastics and help more children, be more active, more often.
All Primary Sports Coaching Limited coaches will:

• Be Enhanced DBS checked
• Be trained in Paediatric First Aid (12 hour course) at least once every three years
• Hold relevant sports coaching qualifications
• Be trained in safeguarding at least once every year
• Be trained in GDPR at least every two years
• All coaches undergo regular in house CPD and health and safety training
• Undertake the following online courses; Prevent, ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and FGM (Female Genital Mutilation).
  
  

Our coaches will endeavour to ensure all the children attending have a fun time, staying active in a safe environment.
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If you have any questions please send them to our team at [email protected]

Kind regards
Norbury Hall Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you are all well and enjoying the spring like weather we have been enjoying.  The term continues to be busy.  Book Fortnight was a great success and the children really enjoyed the many activities made available.  We have now returned to our Quest ‘Where do I?  When do I?’ with a final focus on our geography and history skills.  Our final Quest of the year starts the week before the Easter break so that we can fit everything in with Easter being so late this year.  This will focus on the arts and is entitled ‘Who do I aspire to be?’

Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel to School Challenge

The following message is from the School Council:
We would like to tell you about a special event we will be taking part in.  Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel to School Challenge is from 24th March to 4th April.  If 15% of the children walk. Bike, scoot or drop the car and walk the last part of the journey, we will be entered into a daily prize draw.  It would be great if lots of you could do this.
We will obviously be talking to the children about this but if you would like to know more, please visit https://bigwalkandwheel.org.uk/

School Meals

We welcome Kirsty as our new school cook.  She is working hard to get to know the children.  Thank you for your patience during the time when we were working with relief staff in the kitchen.  We know things didn’t always run smoothly but we are confident that now Kirsty is in post the service will continue to go from strength to strength. 
The school meal provider has increased the price of school meals.  For those of you who pay for meals the cost will be £2.75 from the 1st April 2025.

Term Dates – 2025 / 2026

The Local Governing Board has agreed the term dates for 2025 / 2026.  These largely mirror Stockport term dates but there is one amendment and obviously INSET days have been added.
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Autumn term 2025
· Term starts: Monday 1 September 2025
· INSET days (children do not attend school) Monday 1st September and
Tuesday 2nd September
·  Half term holiday: Monday 27 October to Friday 31 October 2025
·  INSET day (children do not attend school) Monday 3rd November 2025
·  Term ends: Monday 22 December 2025

Spring term 2026
· Term starts: Monday 5 January 2026
· Half term holiday: Monday 16 February to Friday 20 February 2026
· Term ends: Friday 27 March 2026
· Easter public holidays: Good Friday 3 April and Easter Monday 6 April 2026

Summer term 2026
· Term starts: Monday 13 April 2026
· May Day Bank Holiday: Monday 4 May 2026
· Spring bank holiday: Monday 25 May 2026
· Primary half term holiday: Monday 25 May to Friday 5 June 2026
· INSET day (children to not attend school) Monday 8th June 2026
· Primary term ends: Friday 24th July
· INSET day (children do not attend school) Friday 24th July 2026

Parents’ Association News

Following the non-uniform day and the costume sale the Parents’ Association have now passed the £10,000 mark in their fundraising this academic year.  This is amazing – thank you so much to the team but also to all parents and carers who have supported events so well.  We are in the process of organising a cinema trip for all the children in school – this will take place in July and will be fully funded by the PA.  More details to follow shortly.  There will be a planning meeting for summer term events on Wednesday 9th April at 6pm at the school – all are welcome to attend.

Thank you for your continued support.  I have added summer terms dates below. 
Best wishes,

SPRING TERM 2025

Wednesday 19th March
School Council fundraising event – odd shoe day

Monday 24th March
Y4 to visit Stockport Air Raid Shelters

Tuesday 25th March
5N to visit Ewden Water Treatment works

Wednesday 26th March
5H to visit Ewden Water Treatment works

Wednesday 9th April
PA planning meeting at school - 6pm

Friday 11th April
School finishes for the Easter break

​Book Fortnight has been a great success in school. The children enjoyed the usual excitement of dressing up as their favourite book character and we had some amazing entries for the competition. The reading den, Charlie Bucket’s house leading into the chocolate factory, allowed classes to come together in a cosy and calm environment for them to share a class read. The den always supports the overall theme for book fortnight and encourages a great deal of discussion around the chosen focus story which this year was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Read dating allows the children the opportunity to share books that they have enjoyed with their peers and learn about new books that may appeal to them.

​The children also enjoyed texts exploring the themes of hunger and the use of food banks. These texts allowed the children to develop their skills of empathy – putting themselves in the shoes of others. There was also great excitement around preparing food related to the themes in the books they were reading such as creating fruit lollipops, soups and pasta dishes. Key skills for food preparation were learnt and the children certainly loved the end products!  The children also learnt about the importance of food composting and how we can then use the compost in the summer term to support our outdoor learning projects.

The launch of Stockport Book Awards has now created a buzz around reading and the children are already discussing this year’s texts and bringing in art pieces that they have created in response to their reading. We look forward to this continuing over the coming weeks.
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Thanks to all the parents and carers who support Book Fortnight by providing costumes, support home learning competitions and spend time reading with your children on a regular basis – it does all really help to ensure our children develop a love of reading.

The Year 2 children thoroughly enjoyed celebrating the Holi festival on Friday afternoon.

What is Holi?

Holi is the festival of colours. It is a fun Indian festival that marks the end of winter and the arrival of spring. Holi is about happiness and togetherness. It marks the victory of good over evil.

Throughout the story of Holi, there was a bad king named Hiranyakashipu. His son Prahlad was a good boy and loved Lord Vishnu. The king’s sister Holika tried to harm Prahlad, but she got burnt instead. 

The night before Holi, a fire is lit to remember the story of Holika. The next day colours are thrown onto each other!  Special coloured powders called gulaal are used for this and there is lots of dancing and singing. Sweet and savoury foods are also enjoyed such as gujiyas and chaats. 

Dear Parents and Carers,
We have been really enjoying our learning all about our current Quest over the last few weeks. Last week and this week we have looked further into the ‘When do I?’ aspect of our Quest. We have taken our learning to look at the history of transport.
In Reception we are:

• Looking at different types of vehicles and transport
• Looking at similarities and differences between types of transport
• Finding out more about how transport has changed throughout history
• Exploring the vocabulary of past, present and future
• Creating our own modes of transports using different resources e.g. junk modelling, natural resources and using playdough
• Applying our phonic knowledge to our writing and focussing on using finger spaces between each new word
• Recognising and ordering numbers to 20
• Practically solving subtraction questions

Dear Parents,

During this half term and the first part of the summer term, we will be delivering Relationship and Sex Education for Years 1 - 6.  These lessons will take place as part of our PSHE curriculum.
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If you would like to view the Relationship and Sex Education materials that we will be using, then you would be more than welcome to request this.  Please could you contact your child’s class teacher to do this.  We feel that it is important the children take part in these sessions as part of our on-going programme of personal and social and health education.  I would like to emphasise that all themes covered are taught in an age-appropriate way.  Key themes explored within certain year groups are as follows:

If you would like to discuss anything further please do not hesitate to talk with your child’s class teacher, Mrs Adnett, Miss Garrett or Miss Wood.  If you do not wish your child to take part in these sessions, then please can you let Miss Wood know in writing that this is your decision.  We will of course make alternative provision for your child during this time.
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Yours sincerely
Becky Wood

Good morning,
 
Please find attached information for the Year 2 team about an upcoming trip to The Lowry Art Gallery. Please click on the following link https://forms.gle/Lv3v4Q3TPqheSR9L6 to give permission for your child to attend.
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Kind regards,
Norbury Hall Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

Year 2 visit to The Lowry Art Gallery

As part of our summer Quest, linked to music and arts, we are planning to take the children to The Lowry Art Gallery.

Children will complete a workshop about the basics of painting through use of a variety of tools to explore with a professional artist, including colour mixing, the colour wheel and tone. We will also take a visit to the gallery to look at L.S Lowrys painting style.
The visit will take place on Wednesday 21th May 2025

We are asking the children to wear their school uniform, a waterproof coat and comfortable footwear for the visit The children will require a packed lunch for the day and also a bottle of water to drink throughout the day. In order to minimise rubbish, we would appreciate it if the children brought as few plastic items in their packed lunches as possible. We ask that your child brings their packed lunch in a rucksack as they will be carrying it with them during the visit. If your child currently has school dinners, they can be provided with a grab a bag lunch if you so wish.

We will travel to The Lowry by coach, leaving school at 8:45 am and returnirky at approximately 2:45pm.

Please can we request that children arrive at school by 8:30am in order to be registered and ready to leave school promptly at 8:45am.

A parental voluntary contribution of £14.50 is requested to cover the travel cost and guided session by Monday 5th May.

This can be paid online via school money. We think the children will benefit from this experience and will thoroughly enjoy the day.

We will require a small number of parental help on this occasion. Please let us know via your child's reading record if you are able to offer your support and we will contact you if your help is required. Only a small number of additional adults are required. Thank you in advance.

The Year 2 Team

Dear Parents,
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The school councillors would like me to remind you about our upcoming fundraising event next Wednesday 19th March. Pupils have been asked to remain in their school uniform, but wear odd shoes for the day. We are asking for a voluntary contribution of £1 and an item of food to donate to our chosen charity-Stockport Food Bank. All money raised will be split between Stockport Food Bank and Make a Wish. The office have set up online payment via school money. 

The councillors would like to thank everyone in advance for your support.
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Many Thanks,
Mrs Cooney and School Council

Dear Parents,

Friday 14th March is the Hindu festival of Holi. To celebrate we will be using some coloured powders. If you would like your child to take part they will need to bring a change of t-shirt that they don't mind colouring. 
 
Thanks, 
The Year 2 team