Issue 10 2010

Norwood Crescent, Southport. PR9 7DU. Tel: 01704 211960. Fax 01704 232712. Head Teacher: Mr Lee Dumbell.

Email: [email protected] www.norwoodprimaryschool.com

Issue 10 12th November 2010

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Norwood News

TERM DATESAutumn Term 2010

Term Ends:Friday 17th December. School closes at 2pm

Spring Term 2011

Children return to schoolWednesday 5th January at 8.55am

Half Term:Monday 14th-Friday 18th February

Term Ends:Friday 1st April. School closes at 2pm

Summer Term 2011

Children return to schoolTuesday 19th April at 8.55am

School closed:Good Friday 22nd AprilEaster Monday 25th April

Children return to schoolTuesday 26th April at 8.55am

School closed:Bank Holiday Monday 2nd May

Half Term:Mon 30th May-Fri 3rd June

School closed:Friday 1st July(Staff training day)

Term Ends:Friday 22nd July. School closes at 2pm

Autumn Term 2011

School Closed Thursday 1st

September Friday 2nd

September

Children return to schoolMonday 5th September

3Arts Festival Countdown

34 weeks to go

UP COMING DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Monday 15th-19th November Anti-Bullying week

Thursday 18th November SEAL Celebration Assembly KS2 1.30 pm EY/KS1 2.30 pm

Friday 3rd December Christmas Fair 6 pm (Hall)

Tuesday 7th December KS2 Carol Concert at Leyland Road Methodist Church 7pm

Tuesday 7th December 2.30 pm Reception Christmas Performance

Wednesday 8th December 2.30 pm Year 1 Christmas Performance

Thursday 9th December 2.30 pm Year 2 Christmas Performance

Monday 13th December M & M Pantomime for the whole school 9.15 am and 10.30 am

Wednesday 15th December Christmas Craft morning 9-11 am

Thursday 16th December Christmas Fun Day

The Chicks Have Hatched!

Last week Year One saw the arrival of our newest members of the year group! After 21 days of

eagerly waiting with anticipation our chicks hatched out of their shells and said “Hello”. Our classroom has never been so full of eager visitors wanting to see our chicks. At first they were very weak and wet, and were cuddling together to keep warm.

They soon dried out and became the fluffy chicks that we all know. They certainly are characters and

have been loudly cheeping ever since.

We hope to keep them for a few weeks before they return to Farmer Ted. Let’s hope they don’t learn to

jump high enough to escape out of the brooder!

News team Molly Glinn, Hannah Tear, Megan Powderly, Jamie Russell, Katy Watkinson, Taylor McKenzie & Finn Cromack

Howard Carter came to our class. He showed us how to be a archaeologist. Luke and Abbie had a go at

brushing away the sand and showed us some artefacts.

By Jamie Shaw

On the 2nd November Year 2 went to the Liverpool

Museum, first we got on the green double decker bus. Finally we got to the museum. Next we went to the 3rd floor and saw Egyptian things. Then we went down stairs and learnt about animals from Egypt.

There were lots of crocodiles.By Matthew Bishop

Year 2

Year 2 had a fantastic time when they held a jam party for their parents.

They made their very own ‘Norwood jam’ and used it to bake lots of jammy

treats including jam tarts, jammy dodgers, jam sandwiches and jammy meringues, they were very excited to share their food with their parents, as

well as having a taste themselves!

A big thank you to everyone who has helped to raise funds from our recent Line Dance event.The total raised so far is £1474.48. Could you please remind the children to collect and bring to school

any remaining sponsor money. We have extended the date to 25th November as we appreciate that with half term some of the children may have forgotten or mislaid their forms.

Please call to the office if you require any sponsor forms.

Sponsored Line Dance

Jam Party!

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE EXCITING PHOTOGRAPHS @ www.norwoodprimaryschool.com

Star of the Week

6C:Ashanai Hignett

6P:Joshua Watkins5M:Liam Townsley5M:Lucas Thaw

5M:Dannon Lavelle5B:Kane Baggaley4M:Hannah Brookfield

4P:Mia Fuery3K:Connor Sherran3K:Sean Gowers3H:Nick Moore

3H:Joe Stewart2W:Isabelle Hopkins-Lane2M:Nicole Helsby

2M:Brooke McFord1B:Aimee-Rose Hunt1B:Erin Waggett

1D:Naomi HallRJT:Sam LangfordRJT:Jessica PaganRT:Luke Thistlewaite

RT:Ellie Merryfield

Children in the Spotlight

Shinewaves Competition Time

Georgia a member of the winning team

from 61st Cubs, has received the Foster Challenge Shield for

success in dominoes & jenga

activities.

Marvellous!

Heather came 1st in the Southport Music

Festival's Speech & Drama Competition &

received the

Lyndhurst Trophy for U9's Verse Speaking.

Fantastic!

Katie has passed her Grade 5 Water Skills Award. Wonderful!

Nathan received the Top Banana Award from Jungle Jim's.

Congratulations!

Jamie has passed his 25m Rainbow Swimming Award. Terrific!

Last week’s competition was to design a bonfire safety poster. Miss Wainwright helped judge the eye catching entries. The winners were Naomi McKee (2M) for

KS1 and Sam Morgan (6P) for KS2. Congratulations!

As next week is National Anti-bullying Week this week’s competition is in

association with BullyBusters.

BullyBusters would like children in the Merseyside area to design a new poster

displaying current issues such as cyberbullying, how the bystander can help or celebrating diversity. The poster can be drawn, use photographs or technology. It

must be bright and colourful and include the website address www.bullybusters.org.uk and the free phone helpline number 0800 169 6928. The

competition will be judged in Infant and Junior categories.

All entries will be forwarded to the area competition which closes on 30th

November.

Year 3

News team Molly Glinn, Hannah Tear, Megan Powderly, Jamie Russell, Katy Watkinson, Taylor McKenzie & Finn Cromack

Norwood 2 Farnborough 14

Team: Aaron Rimmer, Matthew Vansprang-Rimmer, Ashley Gavan, Daniel Lawrence, Tom Mitchell, Tom Stewart, Jaydon

Lavelle, Jamie Hough, Lewis Hitchcock, Jack Wallbank, Tom Langford, Joseph Edmunds.

Well done to Norwood 'A' Team who despite the terrible weather conditions, managed to put up a brave fight against Premier League Champions, Farnborough Juniors.

At no point did Norwood give up, either in the first third when they were losing 5-0, or in the second third when the score

was 9-0. In fact, in the third third, Norwood managed two goals from Daniel Lawrence and Tom Mitchell to make the final score 14-2 to Farnborough.

A valiant effort boys and a never say die attitude to be proud of!Well done.

Man of the match: Aaron Rimmer for his tremendous saves throughout the match and for having the dirtiest kit at the end of the match!

Reported by Mrs Rigby.

Norwood 'A' Team Football Match

Mrs Murray ‘loosing’ her head!

Year 3 have designed & made these wonderful

windmills as part of their topic work on Weather.

The windmills

were put to the test on a windy day. Some windmills had to be modified, but it

was an exciting time when success was achieved by

all!

Wonderful Windmills Year 3

******No B team football week commencing 15.11.10*****

Year 3

News team Molly Glinn, Hannah Tear, Megan Powderly, Jamie Russell, Katy Watkinson, Taylor McKenzie & Finn Cromack

Children In Need 2010

This year Norwood would like to support this appeal in conjunction with Asda, by collecting unwanted clothes (bags

provided) and by taking part in Bake the Bear (Pudsey Bear cutters provided). We are hoping you will bake some biscuits over the Children in Need weekend and bring them in to school, to sell in our Pudsey Cake Sale on Monday 22nd November. Pudsey Bear will be coming into school to say thank you for our efforts, collect clothing donations & to present a certificate

to the school. With your help, we hope to make this a successful event!

On Friday the 5th November, Year 6 had a rocket and firework themed day to commemorate Guy Fawkes failed attempt to blow up King James I in 1605.

The children came dressed as either Guy Fawkes, King James or as a firework. The children watched demonstrations of fireworks and rockets made

using household ingredients such as cola, baking soda, vinegar, mints, washing up liquid, lemonade bottles and empty film canisters. They even saw

a water powered rocket fly high over the playground!

Later on the children made their own rockets, which Mr Postlethwaite and Mr Hesketh launched with varying degrees of success!

Before lunch the whole school appeared on the playground to watch a repeat of the earlier experiments.

Year 6 Rockets!

Before we set off on our trip of Victorian Southport, we put our sketch books and bin bags (to sit down on) in

our rucksacks. We walked all the way from school to The Promenade and learnt that The Promenade Hospital was redeveloped in the late 1990's into

expensive and exclusive apartments renamed Marine Gate Mansions, Steven Gerrard used to live there!

Further on the journey, we reached Lord Street and

sketched Wellington Terrace. After a while we stopped to have a biscuit (yum yum) and then we sketched another building, it was the Ribble Building a former railway station fronting one of the supermarkets in

town. Eventually, we reached Christ Church and enjoyed our lunch and a sit down. Refreshed and

rearing to go we sketched the Church and the nearby

Band Stand. Next we studied the names on the War Memorial. Just as it started to rain we arrived at

Southport Pier, the 2nd longest and oldest iron Pier in

UK. We walked ALL of it's 1112m! Unfortunately the rain got heavier and we were drenched by the time we

got back to school. By Hannah Tear 5.B

Year 5

Please take the time to check out our

website as this newsletter, these photographs (and

many more) look so much better in colour.

Year 3

News team Molly Glinn, Hannah Tear, Megan Powderly, Jamie Russell, Katy Watkinson, Taylor McKenzie & Finn Cromack

Up to half term these children’s behaviour really stood out and they reached the pot of gold:

Ruby Fellowes 6C Alex Day 3K

Jakob Young 3K Emily James 3K Grace Gibbs 3K

Rosie Morgan 3K Star Wilkinson 3K Sophie Wright 6C

Thea Moore 6P Freya Hanson-Lewis 5B Abbi Boardman 5B Bethany Hefferan 5B

Liam Healey 5B Zarin Kashem 5B Hannah Tear 5B

Annie McCoid 5B Maddie Jones 5B Tom Lawson 5B

Bethany Southern 3H Naomi McKee 2M Emily Marshall 6C Keira Rimmer 6C

Lucy James 6C Georgia Lonsdale 5B Katie Watkinson 4M

Olivia Logan 2M Charlie Kearns 2W Joshua Leddy 2M

Nicole Helsby 2M Olivia Sproat RTT Daniel Williams RTT Ethan Owen RJT

Libby Simpson RJT Finn Cromack 3KNatasha Watkins 3K

Sian Drummond 3KJoe Langford 3HOlivia Sprout RT

Daniel Mercer-Jones 4P Fahim Alom 4M

Kate Bishop 4M Macy Mordey 4M Natasha Polansky 4M

Morgan Fyles 1B Isabelle Starr RRT Max Teale RRT

Robbie Morgan RJT Charlie Kempster RJT McKenzie Knowles RJT Taylor McNulty RJT

Jamie Roberts 2M Isabelle Hopkins-Lane 2M Tyler Scutt 2W

Jamie Shaw 2W Rachel Hooton 2W Elliot Potts 2W

Ruby Hardman 1D Abi Wright 5M Tyler Birch 5M Hannah Diss 5M

Caris Dixon 5M Bethany Heyes 5MCharlie Marshall 5M

Tom Mitchell 5M Megan Powderly 5M Katie Halsall 3H

Brandon Chadwick-Boardman 3H Joe Stewart 3H Eva Bennet 2M Ellie Blundell 4M

Hannah Brookfield 4MLucy Fraser 4MMaddie Hayes 4M

Astrid Travis 4MJessica Pagan RJT

WOW! If your child reached the pot of gold last term but their name doesn’t appear on the list above please mention this to the

class teacher.

The Behaviour Team are currently evaluating the impact of the new behaviour system. If you have any comments about

the system please pass them to the office and we will include them in our evaluation.

Norwood’s Pot of Gold ‘POGS’