Transition week at primary school is an exciting and important time for children as they prepare for the new school year. It’s a chance to meet their new teachers, make new friends and explore their future classrooms. Seeing where they'll be learning and playing in September helps children feel more confident and settled. It’s also a fun opportunity to get a taste of new routines and start looking forward to the adventures ahead in their next year at school!

Ahead of Transition Week starting on 14th July, we’ve put together handy booklets for you to go through with your children. They’ll give a little flavour of what’s to come, helping your child feel more confident, excited, and ready for the new school year!

Download your copies from the home page of the website.

Entrance is via the Junior gate at the front of the school.

Each class will perform three times – 1:30 pm, 2 pm and 2:30 pm.  Between performances you will be able to purchase the Enterprise products the children have made.  We can only take cash as payment.

2:50 pm – please congregate on the Junior field facing the Junior playground as the children have a special performance for you.

Following this, we will take the children back into the building and dismiss them as we usually would.
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Arrangements are slightly different for Nursery with one performance at 2 pm. 
​Mrs Robinson has sent details to Nursery parents.

Dear Parents / Carers
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I am writing to primarily update you on staffing arrangements for next year.  However, there are one or two other pieces of information so please read beyond the information about 2025 / 2026 classes!

​Phase Team Leader – Mrs Kerry Robinson

Phase Team Leader – Mrs Sara Turner

Phase Team Leader – Miss Becca Morgan

Phase Team Leader – Miss Hannah Garrett

You will notice that some members of staff are not included in next year’s teaching profile. 
Mrs Julie Rice is moving to a job within the Four Rivers Trust.  Mrs Rice has been at the school as an Assistant Headteacher for 12 years.  For a large proportion of this time she has been the Inclusion Lead and SENDCo at the school and I know many of you have appreciated the support she has given individual children and families.  We will very much miss Mrs Rice’s wealth of knowledge and the care and nurture she has given to so many of the children.

We are delighted to welcome Mrs Sarah Downes to the school as our new Inclusion Lead and SENDCo.  Sarah is currently SENDCo in another Stockport school and is looking forward to joining the Norbury team.

Mr Dan Hopwood is also moving to a job within the Four Rivers Trust.  Mr Hopwood has made a big impression on the school in a short space of time and I know that those children who have been taught by him have enjoyed their time in his class.  Mr Hopwood has also helped to coordinate many sporting events at the school and we are grateful to the time and energy he has given this.
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Mrs Claire Miles also leaves us.  Mrs Miles has been part of the Year 1 team for a large part of this year and we are grateful to her for her thorough teaching as well as the care and nurture she has given the children in 1H.

Transition Week

All children will move to their new classes during the week beginning 14th July.  They will be taught by their new teachers during this week.  They will go to their current class teacher on the Monday morning and will then move to their new classes during the morning.  From Monday afternoon to Friday you will be able to drop them off and pick them up from their new teacher.  We will send details nearer the time explaining which entrance and exit you will be using. 

Stockport Food Bank

The foodbank has been in touch to offer support to any family who may need this across the longer summer break.  We have to nominate families and then give you the paperwork to be able to visit over the summer.  If this is something you would be interested in please get in touch – we are keen to support families who may benefit from this invaluable service.

School Uniform

We are trying to hold a more limited stock in school so if you still wish to order uniform for September, the best way to do this is online via the Your School Uniform website - https://www.yourschooluniform.com/   
The next delivery date to school is 17th September 2025 (order online by 24/08/25). If uniform is required for September 2025 you can organise delivery to your home address.
Please remember there is also the option of using Cress who are a preloved uniform shop supported by our Parents’ Association - https://www.wearecress.com/find-your-school/?srsltid=AfmBOorGdWN-cbW8-salKVNKcT9pQjr-Q3ZASIpvHWTR3lQk_X6bCLKV

I have added the calendar of outstanding events below.  Please refer to my previous newsletter for further details.
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Best wishes,
Becky Wood

We have been continuing to work hard moving into our last half term of the school year-
​oh my! Throughout the school we have been acting, singing, dancing, making, sculpting, drawing and painting! We have lots of upcoming events so please find more details below and some reminders of future dates.
 
Wrongsemble Theatre Performance
Wednesday 2nd July

Following last year’s successful visit from Wrongsemble Theatre Company, we are delighted to welcome them back to school. We feel it is important that the children enjoy a live theatre performance in school each year.  We request a donation of £2 per child towards this event.  This will be set up as a payment for you on School Money.

Parents’ Association Summer Festival
Friday 4th July

A reminder that our Summer Festival will take place on Friday 4th July from
4.30pm – 6:30 pm.  We hope to see as many families as possible at this event. In order to prepare for this there will be two non-uniform days in exchange for a donation for the fair. On Friday 27th June we would like a donation for the teddy and book tombolas. On the day of the fair itself (4th July) please could children in Nursery, Reception, Year and Year 2 bring a donation of chocolate or sweets and children in Years 3 – 6 bring a bottle for the bottle tombola. 
 
Norbury Fest
Wednesday 9th July

We are also working hard to rehearse performances ready to share with our friends and families in our whole school Norbury Fest celebrations! Performances will be repeated so that families with more than one child in school can be accommodated. Performances will be at 1:30 pm, 2:00 pm and 2:30 pm. The exception to this is Nursery who will be doing one performance at 2:00 pm. We will then congregate together in front of the junior adventure playground at 2:50 to perform one last song as a whole school. Weather permitting we will hold the event in the school grounds. Further details will be made available before the time. The children have also been creating a range of products to sell to you as part of their enterprise project. This will be a cash only event, so please bring plenty of change with you. The children will then return to class and be dismissed as normal at the end of the day. We look forward to welcoming you to this event and we hope it is one that the whole family enjoy!
 
Savoy Cinema Visits
10th and 11th of July

The Parents’ Association have very kindly funded a visit for every child in school to the Savoy Cinema in Heaton Moor. Over the course of two days, all the children will be travelling by coach to the cinema, enjoying the film and then returning to school. All visits will take place in the school day and the children will be in school for their lunch. All costs for this visit will be funded by the PA.

Visits will take place at the following times:
Thursday 10th July – AM
Years 3 and 4

Thursday 10th July – PM
Years 5 and 6

Friday 11th July - AM
Nursery and Reception

Friday 11th July - PM
Years 1 and 2
 
Children in Years 3 – 6 will be watching the BFG. This is a PG film so if you have any questions or objections to your child seeing this film, please contact their class teacher.  On the Friday, our younger children will be watching the film Wish.  A snack of popcorn and a bottle of water is included.  Again, if you have any objections to this, please contact the class teacher.  We do need parental permission for this visit – if you haven’t already then please complete the Google form at https://forms.gle/QW2HkvRW17e5n6WZ6 to give your consent to your child taking part. If you can offer your support on the day, please contact your child’s class teacher.
 
Tapestry
Friday 11th July

As a school, we stop using Tapestry as a way of sharing with parents at the end of Year 1. Parents and carers of children moving from Year 1 to Year 2, will need to download any pictures, or work saved on their child’s profile, (should you wish to keep it) before it gets cleared. This will need to be completed by Friday 11th July, please.
 
Thanks for your continued support as ever,
Team Norbury 

Dear Parents and Carers,
It has been lovely to see our amazing Reception learners return to school after the term happily. We have loved hearing all their news and what they have been up to.
This term so far we have continued our exciting Quest of ‘Who do I aspire to be?’. We have been following this Quest of enchantment and allowed it to lead us to explore our interests and dreams even more.

We had an exciting delivery of caterpillars when we returned to school. This has led to some exciting learning about life cycles and minibeasts.
We have also been having lots of fun in the sun; learning and playing in our outdoor area and enjoying our school grounds.
 
Cool Milk;
Just to let you know that our subscription with Cool Milk stops when children enter into Year 1. Also you will be aware from Cool Milk, that when your child turns 5 you have to then pay for your child to have milk at school. We do have to stick to the list and consent given from parents to ensure we are meeting the needs with allergies and intolerances.

A few children have recently been asking for milk but are currently not on the list since their birthday. We appreciate that there are only a few more weeks of Cool Milk, but we also wanted to make you aware so that you can have a chat with your child and set up Cool Milk with your child if this is something your child wants for the remainder of Reception.
https://coolmilk.com/
 
Keyrings
Whilst we value our children’s individuality and feel it’s important that children can identify their belongings easily, we are finding that book bags are getting an increasing number of keyrings on them. Some of these keyrings are quite large and struggling to fit in our book bag boxes. Also, we’ve dealt with a number of instances recently where children are playing with their keyrings and they are getting broken or they are swapping keyrings with other children. We would really appreciate your support and ask for there to be just one keyring per bag.  
 
Parents evening RN
Thank you so much to our parents of RN with your understanding regarding the rescheduling of parents evening. We invite those parents that would like to make an appointment with Mrs Matthews to do so once the end of year reports have been sent out. This will then give you chance to read this and discuss anything further with Mrs Matthews. We will be sending further information out about this closer to the time.
 
Warm weather

We are loving this warm weather and are excited for more of it to come. We do ask that all children can be sent into school with a sun hat. We also ask that sun cream is applied before school. If you feel your child will need to reapply suncream at some point in the day, then please send a named bottle in their book bag.
 
Thank for your continued support and have a lovely half term break,
The Reception Team

Dear Parents and Carers,

We hope you’ve had a lovely break and your child is looking forward to an exciting and busy final term in nursery! 

This half term we are continuing our whole school Quest of ‘Who Do I Aspire To Be?’ enjoying lots of activities.  Through rhyming stories, we are learning to listen out for rhyming words and enjoy playing games such as rhyming pairs and continuing rhyming strings e.g. cat sat mat rat, pig jig wig.  This maybe something you could play with your child, along with games such as I spy.

Our outdoor learning environment is an ever-changing wonderful space for your child to learn and play. We will be looking for the signs of summer, playing imaginary games in the meadow and observing minibeasts such as the damselflies and dragonflies around the school pond.  The children really enjoy this area of the school grounds and I’m sure we will notice new wildlife arrive and plants growing over these summer months.

We’re also really looking forward to our nursery visit to Tatton Farm.  Here is a reminder for you!

Nursery children will wear high viz vests provided by nursery and will be allocated to an adult with one to three ratio.  Please bear in mind we will be outside for most of the day, so please send children with appropriate footwear e.g. trainers.  As the forecast is sunny and warm, your child must wear sun cream and a sun hat along with an extra drink!

We will be having lunch at Tatton Farm (either outside or in the covered picnic areas), so please could you provide your child with a packed lunch. Please bring their lunch in their own small, named rusk sack, with items that we can dispose of before returning to school. We will be returning to school for approximately 2.45pm.
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As ever, thank you for all your support
The Early Years Nursery Team

Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you had a good half term break.  The children have returned refreshed and ready for their final half term of the school year.  This is a busy half term with many events which I will outline for you below.

Class Photographs
These will be taken on Wednesday 25th June so we ask that all children come in their school uniform on this day. 

Front Row Music Concert
For those children who take part in Front Row music lessons, there will be an end of year concert on Thursday 26th June at 2 pm.  This will take place in the school hall.

Wrongsemble Theatre Performance – Wednesday 2nd July
Following last year’s successful visit from Wrongsemble Theatre Company, we are delighted to welcome them back to school.  We feel it is important that the children enjoy a live theatre performance in school each year.  We request a donation of £2 per child towards this event.  This will be set up as a payment for you on School Money.

Parents’ Association Summer Festival
This will take place on Friday 4th July from 4 pm – 6:30 pm.  We hope to see as many families as possible at this event.  In order to prepare for this there will be two non-uniform days in exchange for a donation for the fair.  On Friday 27th June we would like a donation for the teddy and book tombolas.  On the day of the fair itself (4th July) please could children in Nursery, Reception, Year and Year 2 bring a donation of chocolate or sweets and children in Years 3 – 6 bring a bottle for the bottle tombola. 

Year 6 Production
Our Year 6 children will be performing Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits on Tuesday 8th July in the afternoon and Thursday 10th July in the evening.  Further information will come from the Year 6 team.

Norbury Fest
This will take place on Wednesday 9th July in the afternoon.  As part of our arts curriculum each year group will be performing during the afternoon.  They will also be selling products they have made as part of an enterprise project.  Performances will be repeated so that families with more than one child in school can be accommodated.  Performances will be at 1:30 pm, 2:00 pm and 2:30 pm.  The exception to this is Nursery who will be doing one performance at 2:00 pm. Weather permitting we will hold the event in the school grounds.  Further details will be made available before the time.

Savoy Cinema Visits
The Parents’ Association have very kindly funded a visit for every child in school to the Savoy Cinema in Heaton Moor.  Over the course of two days, all the children will be travelling by coach to the cinema, enjoying the film and then returning to school.  All visits will take place in the school day and the children will be in school for their lunch.  All costs for this visit will be funded by the PA.
Visits will take place at the following times:
Thursday 10th July – AM
Years 3 and 4

Thursday 10th July – PM
Years 5 and 6

Friday 11th July - AM
Nursery and Reception

Friday 11th July - PM
Years 1 and 2
 
Children in Years 3 – 6 will be watching the BFG.  This is a PG film so if you have any questions or objections to your child seeing this film, please contact their class teacher.  On the Friday, our younger children will be watching the film Wish.  A snack of popcorn and a bottle of water is included.  Again, if you have any objections to this, please contact the class teacher.  We do need parental permission for this visit – please complete the Google form at https://forms.gle/QW2HkvRW17e5n6WZ6 to give your consent to your child taking part.  Class teachers will be in touch to ask for parent help for this visit.

Transition Week
The week beginning 14th July will be our transition week in school.  For those families who are new to us, we feel it is important that our children have a significant amount of time with their new teacher before the summer break.  This allays any anxieties the children might have and gives them and their new teacher a chance to get to know each other.  I will write with more detail nearer the time but the children will spend the week with their new teacher in their new classroom.  We also welcome our new Nursery and Reception children into school over this week.  For our Year 5 children they will be in school on Monday and Tuesday before their visit to Robinwood.  Our Year 6 children are supported by colleagues in school and begin work on their Leavers’ assembly. 

Sports Day
Sports Day will be on Wednesday 23rd July.  The Nursery beginning of the week group, RN, Year 1 and Year 2 event will take place in the morning and the Nursery end of the week group, RH and Years 3 – 6 will take place in the afternoon.  Final timings will be sent nearer the time.  Parents and friends are welcome to join us for this event.

Parental Conduct
I have been made aware of a small number of incidents whereby members of our parent body haven’t necessarily behaved in a way that we would wish.  Some of this behaviour is outside of the school grounds and we obviously have no way of controlling this.  However, I would request that all parents conduct themselves in a suitable manner and consider the wellbeing and welfare of other families.  I have attached a document we shared a few years ago which outlines our expectations of parents and carers.

This term we will also be talking about our own dreams and letting our imaginations take our learning to fun and magical places.

We have also really enjoyed practising and learning our songs for Norbury Fest and cannot wait for you to come and watch us perform.

Dream Jars

We are a little short on glass jars for our dream jar creations. If you use any glass jars over the half term, please do save them and send them in – thank you!
 
Imagine That!

Well, what a brilliant trip we had at Imagine That! We hope you have enjoyed looking at all the fun we had on Tapestry. We had such a brilliant time making snow and slime, watching a science show and exploring in the science and role-play areas (the adults had just as much fun as the children!). Thank you for all your contributions that allowed our trip to take place and also to our parent helpers who were invaluable in helping us on the day.
 
Play-club bags

This is a great resource that we have in Reception. We have been using them in school, but we wanted all the children in Reception to have the opportunity to explore them at home too.
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The bags are aimed at developing children's phonics and language skills further. We will rotate the bags and who gets to take them home over the term. If your child receives a bag on the Tuesday, please send this back into school by the Monday the following week. We hope you enjoy exploring the Play Club bags together!
 
All Stars Cricket Rec-Year 2

All Stars Cricket is a fantastic entry-level cricket programme for 5-8 year
(Reception-Year2) old boys and girls and is back for another year! Join children nationwide for a summer of family fun at your local cricket club. Every child receives a free participant pack, including personalised t-shirt, bat and ball, as part of the programme. Visit www.allstarscricket.co.uk to find your nearest centre.
 
Thank for your continued support and have a lovely half term break,
The Reception Team

The phonics screening check has 40 words. 20 real word and 20 nonsense words. 
 
Nonsense words are words that are phonetically decodable but are not actual words with an associated meaning e.g. brip, snorb. Nonsense words (sometimes called pseudo words) are included in the check specifically to assess whether your child can decode a word using their phonics skills and not their memory.
 
It is important that children practise reading nonsense words and identify that they are a nonsense word. The pseudo words will be shown to your child with a picture of an alien and they will be asked to tell their teacher what sort of alien it is by reading the word. This not only makes the check a bit more fun, but provides the children with a context for the nonsense word which is independent from any existing vocabulary they may have. Crucially, it does not provide any clues, so your child just has to be able to decode it. Children generally find nonsense words amusing so they will probably enjoy reading these words.
As with all reading of words out of context (ie in a book) it is important to look for known digraphs (sh, th, ng etc) and trigraphs (igh, ure, air etc).

Your child will bring home a set of words and activities today along with this letter to practise.

Phonics Play, is a really useful and free online site which offers lots of interactive games which can be played on iphones, ipads and computers.

We will be administering the Phonics Screening the week beginning the 9th June, so please, is possible, use the Whit Holiday to continue to rehearse, read and complete the activities sent home. As a reminder, Monday 9th June is an INSET day.
 
Thank you for your continued support.
The Year One Team

Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the warm spell we are experiencing at the moment.  The children have come back to school after the Easter break refreshed and ready to learn.  Our Quest ‘Who do I aspire to be?’ continues with a focus on art, dance, music and narrative.  Initial work is focused around the theme of giants with a focus on the BFG.

Relationships and Values at Norbury Hall

I recently wrote to you to consult on our work to redefine the values in school and to share part of the revision of our behaviour policy.  This is a consultative process and I asked for any responses to be sent into school.  Please see the newsletters section of the website to view this and make any responses by the end of this half term.

Sun safety

Whilst we are enjoying this warm spell, I would like to remind you to send your child to school with a hat, a water bottle and with sun cream applied.  If you require your child to reapply sun cream during the school day, we are unable to do this for them.  However, they can do this for themselves.  Please however keep an eye on the weather.  If rain is forecast, please send them with a waterproof jacket or coat.  We endeavour to go outside even when wet so please make sure they have this back up.

Drop off and pick up times

Thank you for your continued support with both parking and safety whilst using scooters and bikes.  Could I please also request that dogs are not brought into the school grounds.  I have been made aware that a couple of dogs are being brought on to the playgrounds. This could be unsafe and we do have some children who are wary of dogs so I would ask you to consider alternative arrangements.

Appointments in the school day

We have an increased number of parents picking children up for appointments during the school day, particularly during the afternoon.  It is important your children are in school as much as possible so where it is feasible we would ask you to make appointments outside of the school day.  I understand that in some instances this isn’t possible and school will always support genuine appointments.

PA news

As ever, our PA are working hard to support our children in a variety of ways.  Thank to those of you who took part in the Easter egg challenge. We have school discos this Friday (16th May).  The EY and KS1 disco will be from 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm and the KS2 disco will be from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm.  The disco at the end of Year 6’s SATs week is a Norbury tradition and we look forward to seeing all of our children but especially our Y6 children.  For further details please see the PA Facebook page or notices on the school gates.  The PA Summer Festival is on Friday 4th July starting at 4 pm.  We hope to see as many of you there as possible.  We are grateful to the PA for funding a whole school event for our children.  Over the course of a couple of days in July, all of the children will be going on a visit to the Savoy Cinema in Heaton Moor.  We will be going in four separate groups and will be needing some parent volunteers to support each group.  Further details to come from school shortly. 
This is a very short half term but a very busy one! 

​Thank you as ever for your support
Best wishes
Becky Wood