Head Teacher's Newsletter 09/06/2026

Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you all had a good half term break and enjoyed the sunshine we had.  The children return to a busy half term at school.  Our Quest ‘Trapped’ continues to involve them in art, music, dance and drama activities – we are looking forward to sharing these with you at our Norbury Fest event in July.  I have included dates and times of events below.  Further information about these events will come to you through correspondence from our Phase Team Leaders.

OPAL working party day

We have another OPAL working party day on Friday 26th June.  The last day was highly successful with 20+ parents and friends of the school helping to build and create our OPAL zones.  If you can spare any time during this day, we would be more than grateful.  If you can help, please contact Bridget Adnett ([email protected]) so that we have an idea of numbers.

Parking

Please can I politely remind you again that the new traffic calming measures in the area around the school are to ensure your children are safe on their journey to and from school.  Please park responsibly to ensure that this is the case.  Can I also again remind you that unless you have permission from the school, the school car park is not to be used to drop off or pick up your children.

Picking children up from the school office

I realise it isn’t always possible to make appointments for your children outside of the school day.  However, we have an increasing number of children being picked up from the school office particularly at around and after 3 pm.  I would ask that unless this is unavoidable you pick up from the appropriate playground at the end of the school day.  The school office is busy at the end of the day with many parents making a range of enquiries and this puts additional work on an already busy team.

2026 – 2027

We are in the process of finalising our team for 2026 – 2027 and allocating classes to teachers.  We will inform you who your child’s new class teacher will be in due course.  For those of you new to Norbury, we have a transition week for all children starting on Monday 13th July.  The children work with their new teacher in their new classroom during this week to support the transition from one year group to the next.  We know many children find this transition unsettling and hope that a full week enables the return to school in September to be smoother.  New Reception and new Nursery children have a separate transition programme which will be communicated to you if your child is joining us in one of these year groups.

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

Dates for your diary...

Friday 19th June
Reception children to visit Imagine That

Monday 22nd June
Welcome Meetings for parents
of children starting Nursery or Reception September 2026
Nursery 5:30pm | Reception 6:15pm

Wednesday 24th June
Class photographs

Friday 26th June
OPAL working party day – all friends and parents welcome to help

Wednesday 1st July
Nursery Visit to Friends of Nature Forest School

Friday 3rd July
Parents’ Association Summer Festival 5pm – 7pm

Tuesday 7th July
Y6 performance 1:45pm

Wednesday 8th July
Norbury Fest from 1:30pm

Thursday 9th July
Front Row Music Concert 2pm

Thursday 9th July
Y6 Performance 6pm

Week beginning 13th July
Transition week

Wednesday 15th July
Y5 to Robinwood

Tuesday 21st July
Sports Day for Years 3 – 6
9:30am

Wednesday 22nd July
Sports Day for Nursery, Reception 9:30am and 1:30pm
(this event will be repeated to support all of our Nursery children –
parents do not need to attend twice)
Year 1 and Year 2 9:30am

Thursday 23rd July
Y6 Leavers’ Assembly 9:15am

Thursday 23rd July
School closes for the summer break

Tuesday 1st September and
Wednesday 2nd September
INSET days
School CLOSED for the children

Thursday 3rd September
School opens for the children