Headteacher's Newsletter 05/01/2026

Dear Parents and Carers,

Happy New Year!  I hope you all had a lovely Christmas break.  We are delighted to see the children back in school.  The snowy start has been an added excitement for them but maybe not the staff team!

We have started the new term by launching our new Quest –
​‘Are You Ready to Travel the World?’  This will combine our history and geography as we all become international travellers.  Each year group received a suitcase or bag containing clues about their destination to get them thinking about the world beyond Hazel Grove.

Helping your child with their learning

We would like to invite you to an event on Wednesday 28th January 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.

PA Movie Afternoons

The popular Parents’ Association Movie Afternoons are due to take place towards the end of January.  Years 3 – 6 are invited to stay on Tuesday 20th January and Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are invited to stay on Thursday 22nd January.  The event runs from the end of the school day with pick up at 5:30 pm.  For further details please follow this link to the PA website - https://www.norburyhallpa.co.uk/movie-afternoons.html#/. 

To purchase tickets, please follow these links:
KS1
https://tickets.matterpay.com/s/norbury-hall-parents-association/ZXZlbnQ6ODI2NA%3D%3D/norbury-hall-january-movie-afternoon---ks1
KS2
https://tickets.matterpay.com/s/norbury-hall-parents-association/ZXZlbnQ6ODI2NQ%3D%3D/norbury-hall-january-movie-afternoon---ks2

OPAL

We are aiming to launch our OPAL project after February half term with new areas for the children to use during their playtimes.

We are continuing to ask for donations to support this project.  A Bingo Board was circulated via a special newsletter before Christmas for your child’s year group.  These are on the newsletters section of the website and also on the school gates.  Phase Team Leaders will be circulating these to you again via their newsletters.  The donation date for these items is Wednesday 28th January. 

We will also be having an OPAL working party day on Friday 23rd January from 9.15am where we would like some volunteers to help us to construct some shelters for resources and some wellie boot storage using the pallets that have been donated. If you are handy with a drill, prepared to clear and dig or if you could help organise resources you would be perfect for this job! Even if you could spare us half an hour that would be amazing. We will have made some prototypes to get us started. There will also be some bacon butties for encouragement! If you can offer your support please get in touch with us at: [email protected]

Cold weather
Thank you for sending your child ready to play outside whilst we have the colder weather.  The children have enjoyed playing in the snow. 

Please continue to send your child dressed for the outdoors.  Unless the rain is torrential or it is deemed unsafe to play outside, we will get them out whatever the weather.  Knowing they have spare socks if their feet get wet and something to keep their head dry is really important to their enjoyment and comfort.

We are looking forward to a new term with the children and as ever very much value your support.
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Best wishes
Becky Wood

Dates for your diary

Tuesday 20th January
KS2 Movie Night

Thursday 22nd January
EY and KS1 Movie Night

Friday 23rd January
OPAL Working Day

Thursday 5th February
School disco

Friday 13th February
Finish school for the half term break

Monday 23rd February
Return to school

Tuesday 24th February and
​Thursday 26th February
Parent / Teacher consultations

Friday 27th March
Finish school for the Easter holiday