Wednesday 28th January is a busy day in school and we just wanted to remind you of the events taking place on this day:

​Thank you so much to all of our parents who have been collecting items from our bingo boards for our OPAL project. Please could your child bring these items into school on Wednesday 28th January. If you have any larger donations that may be difficult for your child to carry, please drop these off at the junior gate that leads onto the junior playground. Mrs Adnett will be there to support with this. We really do appreciate your support with this project – it will make such a difference to playtime provision.

Year 6 – Quarry Bank Mill: The children will be leaving promptly at 9.00am so it is important that the children arrive at school for 8.45am to ensure they are ready to leave
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Year 4 – Stockport Air Raid Shelter: The children will be leaving school at 9.30am and will return to school by the end of the day.

Children are required to wear school uniform for both trips.

​These workshops are to support you in terms of helping your child with the basic skills of phonics, reading, spelling and number facts.  This will follow the format of our September Meet the Teacher event with two sessions available for you to attend.  The first one will be at 5:15 pm and the second session will be at 6 pm.  Teachers will repeat the content in both sessions so that parents with more than one child can attend more than one year group presentation.  The sessions will give you some ideas about how you can help at home as we know what a great impact this can make for our learners.

We now have a new website to purchase school uniform. This is a local company who have supplied Norbury Hall uniform for many years.

We encourage you to use this website Norburyhall.uniform4you.co.uk entering the password Shepley1

The stock we have in the school office can still be purchased via the school money app, however the stock is limited due to storage space. 

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.

​Our new values are prominent in our school entrance, on our school website and we are familiarising our children with these.  Our values are:

• Curiosity
• Responsibility
• Bravery
• Kindness
• Understanding

We think this summarises what it means to be a learner and part of the Norbury Hall community.

To further our work on a new approach to rewards and consequences, we wanted to ask for parent and carer viewpoint on our thoughts.  We have formulated the attached documents as a full staff team alongside our local governing board and a small council representing the children have also considered them.  If you have any views on our proposals, we would like you to get in touch with us and share your thoughts.

We have used the language within our work of ‘rewards for actions’ and ‘solutions for mistakes’.  We haven’t used the language of sanctions or consequences as we want the children to understand that with the right set of actions we can move forward.

We obviously plan to make sure the children understand these guidelines once they are formalised.

I would like to make it very clear that these guidelines are not for instances of bullying or racist behaviours – these will still be considered under the relevant policies which can be found on the school website.  Similarly, for some children we sometimes have more bespoke plans in place.

We will be rewriting the behaviour policy in light of this work and the attached documents will be a part of this.  This has to be reviewed by staff and governors and will be published for September 2026. 

We look forward to your comments and thoughts.  Please put these in writing and email them to your child’s class teacher or to the [email protected] address.

 Dear Parents and Carers, 
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The children are thoroughly enjoying the reading activities planned for Book Fortnight. They have enjoyed sessions in our reading den on the theme of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and have spent time discussing authors and texts suitable for their age groups. It has been great to see the joy and wonder of the children’s faces as they are hooked on their class teacher’s every word during whole class reading times. 

Often, we are asked by parents/carers for advice about reading material suitable for different age groups. I have put together several documents to support with this and have attached them to this email. Firstly there are some recommended read lists for your child’s year group – the children can use these as a challenge for their reading. There may be many texts they can tick off straight away! I have also added a link below for a collection of books put together by a panel of experts to develop children’s ability to empathise – experience and understand someone else’s feelings. Books are a fantastic way of developing empathy. There is also a section on ‘Emotions’ recommending books on a variety of specific emotions, helping children to recognise and share those they experience: 

 Dear Parents,
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This year Norbury Hall will be taking part in the Stockport Book Awards. The aims of the Book Awards are as follows:
• to raise the profile of reading for pleasure
• to offer children access to some of the best new fiction
• to increase parents', teachers' and school librarians' awareness of new fiction
• to create a community of readers in Stockport by providing opportunities for children to meet authors and providing a forum for reading and an opportunity to share books
 
The children will be in three categories for the award:
1.Best picture book - for Early years and Key Stage 1
2.Best read for Year 3 and 4
3. Best read for Year 5 and 6
 
(See the attached book charts for each of the categories)
 
In the Early Years and Key Stage 1 category the children will be read three current picture books that have been shortlisted by teachers in Stockport who have read a much larger selection of new books. In the year 3/4 and 5/6 categories there are three fiction books that have been shortlisted that we ask the children to read. Once they have read the books the children will then be asked to vote for their favourite in their category.

All children entering a vote will receive a certificate and will be entered into a prize draw firstly to receive book vouchers through school but as an ultimate prize they will receive an invitation to the Stockport Book Awards where they will receive a medal for their commitment to reading and will have the opportunity to meet the winning author in their category. This award ceremony will be held on Tuesday 1st July at Stockport Town Hall. The children will have roughly ten weeks to read their three books and all votes will need to be in by Friday 16th May so that we can announce the winners in the last week of term.

Children in the Early Years and Key Stage 1 category will read their books during class story time and will then be asked to vote in class. However, this is not possible for key stage 2 so we will be asking them to read their books independently. We have purchased multiple copies so that we can make as many as possible available to the children. Stockport libraries will also have additional copies to lend to the children. However, I have included a list of the books and their authors in case the children would like to purchase them themselves or receive them for presents for birthdays etc. The books are clearly highly recommended as good reading material.

In addition, the children also have the opportunity to take part in the art competition, where one lucky winner will win their height in books. Last year Norbury were very successful with this, and we had several winners and runners up from our school. The children will need to create a piece of art based on their favourite book in their category using any media, such as a painting, a collage, or a drawing. The children can complete their artwork as part of their home learning and bring it to me in school by Friday 16th May and I will enter it into the competition. Please can the children write their full name, class and the title of the book that the artwork represents.

We hope the children will enjoy participating in this year's Stockport Children's Book Awards and enjoy reading some fantastic books,
Happy reading!

Good Morning,
One or two cases of head lice infestation have been reported recently in our school.

We would ask every parent to be vigilant in this matter and check your child’s hair carefully regularly for any sign of infestation. Head lice are transmitted by direct, head to head contact. Child and contacts should be treated at same time if live lice are seen.

If your child has long hair you may consider it to be helpful if your child’s hair can be tied back to help reduce the risk of infestation.
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Thank you for your continued support.
Norbury Hall Primary School

For those with children on school meals please can we remind you to make sure you
pre-order your child's meal on School Grid. This can be done in advance or up to the night before.
 
Meals are prepared based on the pre-orders so if we have a large number of children that don't like/want what has been pre-ordered for them there isn't always the option for them to choose something else. If you are unsure your child may like the option for the day we do now have a sandwich option that you are able to pre-order instead. 
 
Thank you for your support with this.

Hello everyone

We've fixed some broken links in the Parent's Hub section. You can now easily access the timetables and learning overviews for each year group.

Thank you

​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