We hope you’ve had a lovely Easter break and that you are enjoying the sunshine as we race along into the Summer Term! 

In art across the school, we are exploring the work of famous artist Quentin Blake, to create our own work inspired by his unique and recognisable illustrations. Later on in the term, as sculptors, we will then dive into the world of pop art through the eyes of Claes Oldenberg and Peter Anton who both produce fun 3D forms of giant food items and as musicians we will be creating our own compositions inspired by the soundtrack from The BFG. Each year group will also have a different dance focus for the term. This year, both Year 3 and 4 will have the opportunity to work with our dance specialist Laura Kendall.
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At the end of the year, we hope to share our learning with you, to perform and to celebrate our successes at Norbury Fest.

Here Comes The Sun!

As the sun is finally shining again, please can you ensure that your child is prepared and safe to enjoy the warmer weather. The children will need a hat to protect them from the sun – please ensure that this is labelled. They may also want to have a pair of sunglasses and their own sun lotion. This can be reapplied by the children at break or lunchtime.

Teacher Led Clubs
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Due to it being such a short term, clubs will continue on from last term. They will commence this week and run till Friday 16th May (the penultimate week of the half term). 

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome back! We hope you all had an enjoyable and rest- ful break! Last half term, we worked incredibly hard across the curriculum! Our clever children have continued to work their socks off and we are so pleased with the work they have produced and the enthusiasm they are showing in their own learning.

When do I? Where do I?
The children have been working hard and have already pro- duced fantastic work. This term there is a history and ge- ography focus across school. With the title of our quest being ‘When do I? Where do I? We are stepping into the shoes of historians to make comparisons between the past and present and as geographers to explore our local and national areas. This term children have taken on the role of Junior Government Ministers!

Year 3 have been exploring sports and leisure, learning about the impact football clubs, such as Stockport County, have on their local area. We have plotted routes on maps, created our own questionnaires to interpret data and used compass points and coordinates to locate places. We loved our trip to Edgeley Park and we have also visited the Na- tional Football Museum to learn more about pioneering figures, such as Lily Parr. We took part in a workshop, ex- plored the exhibitions and even got to take part in a penalty shoot out! In our workshop, we got to explore primary and secondary sources and we loved impressing the staff with our fantastic knowledge!

At the beginning of the term, Year 4 stepped into the shoes of a Hazel Grove soldier, as they were enlisted into WW1! They have explored how and why the war started and have created their own timelines to retell the key events in their own words. They have compared maps of German territo- ries, before and after the war, and have used their historical and geographical understanding to keep evacuees safe, by suggesting the safest locations for them to stay. Year 4 are very much looking forward to their trip to the Stockport Air Raid Shelters in March, where they will explore the impact that the war had on those nationally and how evacuation impacted daily life.

Reading
As always, reading is a very important part of learning at Norbury Hall. We encourage children to develop their read- ing skills and want to inspire their own reading for pleas- ure. To benefit your child, we are asking children to read at home at least three times a week and for this to be recorded in their reading records. This will be checked daily, during the school day.

Book Fortnight
As we return to school, it is the start of our whole school Book Fortnight. We will start the fortnight with the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
This year, our theme is food poverty and hunger. Each year group will look at a range of age appropriate books to help develop an understanding of the importance of eating a balanced diet to keep healthy, why food is important and how we can reuse and repurpose food items.

Cooking
Alongside our reading focus, each year group will be looking at an aspect of Design Technology, (cooking and nutrition).
Year 3 and 4 will be identifying food groups, discussing what we need to make a healthy diet and exploring the ori- gins of our food. We will also be designing and making our own soup, using our slicing, cutting, chopping and grating skills.
Each class will get the opportunity to design, prepare, make and taste make a dish which includes fruit or vegetables. Children will look at health and safety when cooking and use different skills when making their dishes. School will be providing the ingredients for these lessons.
Please speak to your child’s class teacher if you have any concerns about allergies whilst cooking.

Read dating
For Read Dating we ask the children to bring in to school their favourite book from home, to share with their peers. The children will have the opportunity to share their book and discuss why and what it is they enjoy about their book. This could be a story, a non-fiction text, a cook book or even an atlas. Year 3 have enjoyed their session already!
Reading den-As in previous years, our Library will be transformed into a magical reading den. All children across the school, will get the chance to reading in the den with their class, across the fortnight. This year’s den will be The Bucket’s house from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. Once the children step inside, they will be transported to the inside of the chocolate factory.

Please see the grid at the bottom of the Newsletter for key dates for Book Fortnight for Year 3 and 4.

Home Learning Competition
For home learning, we would like to ask the children to create their own book character from a repurposed or unused healthy fruit or vegetable.
Also, we would like the children to write a label for their book character, telling us who their character is and also display their name and class on it. Once the competition is over, the fruit and vegetables will be put into our school composter, which wil then in turn be used to grow more fruit and vegetables in school. Entries need to in school on Monday 3rd March. Please see Mrs Adnett's newsletter for ideas.

​Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome back! We hope you all had an enjoyable and restful break! Last half term, we worked incredibly hard across the curriculum! Our clever clogs have continued to work their socks off and we are so pleased with the work they have produced and the enthusiasm they are showing in their own learning.

When do I? Where do I?
This term, the children have taken on a very important role as Junior Ministers to help support the Government in mak- ing decisions for our country. Year 5 have been Transport Ministers, looking into our railways and water  systems. Year 6 have been Equality Ministers, looking into fair and equal rights for all, by delving into history to look at how unfairly children, women and people of different ethnicities were treated. This role will continue into the next half term.

Reading
As always, reading is a very important part of learning at Norbury Hall. We encourage children to develop their reading skills and want to inspire their own reading for pleasure. To benefit your child, we are asking children to read at home at least three times a week and for this to be record- ed in their reading records. This will be checked daily, during the school day.

Book Fortnight
As we return to school, it is the start of our whole school Book Fortnight. We will start the fortnight with the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
This year, our theme is food poverty and hunger. Each year group will look at a range of age appropriate books to help develop an understanding of the importance of eating a balanced diet to keep healthy, why food is important and how we can reuse and repurpose food items.

Reading den
As in previous years, our Library will be transformed into a magical reading den. All children across the school, will get the chance to reading in the den with their class, across the fortnight. This years den will be The Buckets house from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Once children step inside, they will be transported to the inside of the chocolate factory.

Cooking
Alongside our reading focus, each year group will be looking at an aspect of Design Technology (cooking and nutrition).

Year 5 and 6 will be exploring seasonality and dietary requirements, modifying recipes, and looking into cost effectiveness. We will do this through designing and making our own pasta sauce, using our a range of techniques and skills. Each class will get the opportunity to design, prepare, taste and make a pasta sauce dish. School will be providing the ingredients for these lessons. Eat your heart out Jamie Oliver!

Please speak to your childs class teacher if you have any concerns about allergies whilst cooking.

Home Learning Competition
For home learning, we would like to ask the children to create their own book character from a repurposed or unused healthy fruit or vegetable.
Also, we would like the children to write a label for their book character, telling us who their character is and also display their name and class on it. Once the competition is over, the fruit and vegetables will be put into our school composter, which wil then in turn be used to grow more fruit and vegetables in school. Entries need to in school on Monday 3rd March. Please see Mrs Adnett's newsletter for ideas.

Please see the grid at the bottom of the Newsletter for key dates for Book Fortnight for Year 5 and 6.

​Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome back! We hope you all had an enjoyable and restful break! Last half term, we worked incredibly hard across the curriculum! Our clever children have continued to work
their socks off and we are so pleased with the work they have produced and the enthusiasm they are showing in their own learning.
​
When do I? Where do I?
The children have been working hard and have already produced fantastic work. This term there is a history and geography focus across school. With the title of our quest being ‘When do I? Where do I? We are stepping into the shoes of historians to make comparisons between the past and present and as geographers to explore our local and national areas. This term children have taken on the role of Junior Government Ministers! Year 3 have been exploring sports and leisure, learning about the impact football clubs, such as Stockport County,
have on their local area.

We have plotted routes on maps, created our own questionnaires to interpret data and used compass points and coordinates to locate places. We loved our trip to Edgeley Park and we have also visited the National Football Museum to learn more about pioneering figures, such as Lily Parr. We took part in a workshop, explored the exhibitions and even got to take part in a penalty shoot out! In our workshop, we got to explore primary and secondary sources and we loved impressing the staff with our fantastic knowledge! At the beginning of the term, Year 4 stepped into the shoes of a Hazel Grove soldier, as they were enlisted into WW1!

They have explored how and why the war started and have created their own timelines to retell the key events in their own words. They have compared maps of German territories, before and after the war, and have used their historical and geographical understanding to keep evacuees safe, by suggesting the safest locations for them to stay. Year 4 are very much looking forward to their trip to the Stockport Air Raid Shelters in March, where they will explore the impact that the war had on those nationally and how evacuation impacted daily life.

Reading
As always, reading is a very important part of learning at Norbury Hall. We encourage children to develop their reading skills and want to inspire their own reading for pleasure.
To benefit your child, we are asking children to read at home at least three times a week and for this to be recorded in their reading records. This will be checked daily, during the school day.

​Book Fortnight
As we return to school, it is the start of our whole school Book Fortnight. We will start the fortnight with the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This year, our theme is food poverty and hunger. Each year group will look at a range of age appropriate books to help
develop an understanding of the importance of eating a balanced diet to keep healthy, why food is important and how we can reuse and repurpose food items.

Cooking
Alongside our reading focus, each year group will be looking at an aspect of Design Technology, (cooking and nutrition). Year 3 and 4 will be identifying food groups, discussing
what we need to make a healthy diet and exploring the origins of our food. We will also be designing and making our own soup, using our slicing, cutting, chopping and grating
skills. Each class will get the opportunity to design, prepare, make and taste make a dish which includes fruit or vegetables. Children will look at health and safety when cooking and
use different skills when making their dishes. School will be providing the ingredients for these lessons. Please speak to your child’s class teacher if you have any
concerns about allergies whilst cooking.

Read dating
For Read Dating we ask the children to bring in to school their favourite book from home, to share with their peers. The children will have the opportunity to share their book
and discuss why and what it is they enjoy about their book. This could be a story, a non-fiction text, a cook book or even an atlas. Year 3 have enjoyed their session already!

Reading den
As in previous years, our Library will be transformed into a magical reading den. All children across the school, will get the chance to reading in the den with their class, across the
fortnight. This year’s den will be The Bucket’s house from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. Once the children step inside, they will be transported to the inside of the chocolate factory.

Please see the grid at the bottom of the Newsletter for key dates for Book Fortnight for Year 3 and 4.

Home Leaning Competition
For home learning, we would like to ask the children to create their own book character from a repurposed or un- used healthy fruit or vegetable. Also, we would like the children to write a label for their book character telling us their character is and also display their name  and class  on it. Once the competition is over, the fruit and vegetables will be put into our school composter, which will then in turn be used to grow more fruit and vegetables.  Entries need be in school on Monday 3rd March.  Please see Mrs Adnett's Newsletter for ideas.

 Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome back! We hope you all had an enjoyable and restful break! Last half term, we worked incredibly hard across the curriculum! Our clever clogs have continued to work
their socks off and we are so pleased with the work they have produced and the enthusiasm they are showing in their own learning.

When do I? Where do I?
This term, the children have taken on a very important role as Junior Ministers to help support the Government in making decisions for our country. Year 5 have been Transport
Ministers, looking into our railways and water systems. Year 6 have been Equality Ministers, looking into fair and equal rights for all, by delving into history to look at how unfairly children, women and people of different ethnicities were treated. This role will continue into the next half term.

Reading
As always, reading is a very important part of learning at Norbury Hall. We encourage children to develop their reading skills and want to inspire their own reading for pleasure.
To benefit your child, we are asking children to read at home at least three times a week and for this to be recorded in their reading records. This will be checked daily, during
the school day.

Book Fortnight
As we return to school, it is the start of our whole school Book Fortnight. We will start the fortnight with the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This year, our theme is food poverty and hunger. Each year group will look at a range of age appropriate books to help
develop an understanding of the importance of eating a balanced diet to keep healthy, why food is important and how we can reuse and repurpose food items.

Read dating
We would like the children to bring in their favourite book from home, into school to share with their peers. Please ensure the book is labelled with your child's name and class. Children will have the opportunity to share their book and discuss why and what it is they enjoy about their book. ​Please see the table below for the date of read dating for your child.

​Reading den
As in previous years, our Library will be transformed into a magical reading den. All children across the school, will get the chance to reading in the den with their class, across the
fortnight. This year’s den will be The Bucket’s house from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Once children step inside, they will be transported to the inside of the chocolate factory.

Cooking
Alongside our reading focus, each year group will be looking at an aspect of Design Technology (cooking and nutrition). Year 5 and 6 will be exploring seasonality and dietary requirements, modifying recipes, and looking into cost effectiveness.
We will do this through designing and making our own pasta sauce, using our a range of techniques and skills. Each class will get the opportunity to design, prepare, taste and make a pasta sauce dish. School will be providing the ingredients for these lessons. Eat your heart out Jamie Oliver!

Please speak to your child’s class teacher if you have any concerns about allergies whilst cooking.
​
Home Learning Competition
For home learning, we would like to ask the children to create their own book character from a repurposed or unused healthy fruit or vegetable. Also, we would like the children to write a label for their book character, telling us who their character is and also display their name and class on it. Once the competition is over, the fruit and vegetables will be put into our school composter, which with then in turn be used to grow more fruit and vegetables.  entries need to be in school on Monday 3rd March.  Please see Mrs Adnett's newsletter for ideas.

Please see the grid below for key dates for Book Fortnight for Year 5 & 6.