Issue 38

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

Email: [email protected] www.norwoodprimaryschool.com

Issue 38 Friday 8th July 2011

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TERM DATESSummer Term 2011

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

Autumn Term 2011School ClosedThursday 1st September Friday 2nd September(Staff training days)

Children return to schoolMonday 5th September

Half TermMon 24th-Fri 28th October

Term Ends: Friday 16th December at 2pm

Spring Term: 2012Tuesday 3rd January(Staff training day)Children return to schoolWednesday 4th January 2012

Half Term: Monday 13th-Friday 17th February

Term ends for Spring Break: Friday 30th March at 2pmGood Friday & Easter Monday fall during Spring Break

Summer Term 2012Children return to schoolMonday 16th April at 8.55am

School closed: Bank Holiday

Monday 7th MayHalf Term: Monday 4th June – Friday 8th June

Term ends for Summer Break: Wednesday 18th July at 2pm *One more directed day to be allocated*

September 2011 Reception Children In September, children will be starting school on a part time basis for 2 weeks

commencing Thursday 8th September.Children will start school on a full time basis on Thursday 22nd September.

Children’s University Graduation 2011

On Thursday 23rd June, Mrs Kenrick took twelve Year 6 & twenty four Year 2 children to Edge Hill University. The children had gained sufficient credits

at the end of each respective key stage, to allow them to graduate. The children have attended a range of activities, which have been accredited to the Children's University

scheme. Lucy Cottier & Emily Marshall gave a speech about the commitment, skills

acquired & fun they experienced, by taking part in extra-curricular activities.Elise Bond & Molly Glinn were asked to present a thank you gift to the guest speaker

Peter O'Brien, Sefton's Standards and Effectiveness Adviser.

Year 6 Graduates

Gabriel Angay, Elise Bond, Lucy Cottier, Molly Glinn, Caitlin Healy, Zoe King, Emily Marshall, Thea Moore, Laura Pendlebury, Joshua Watkins, Abbie Wilson &

Sophie Wright.

Year 2 GraduatesEina Alom, Jack Barton, Paris Basson, Eva Bennet, Jack Brookfield, Cerys Burrows,

Jay Curran, Nicole Helsby, Isabelle Hopkins Lane, Tia Howard, Luke Kenyon, Eliot King, Abbie King, Jessica Lakin Ward, Olivia Logan, Hayley Marshall,

Brooke McFord, Naomi McKee, Jordan Monahan, Ruby Pearce, Jamie Roberts, Toby Vickers, Henry Watkinson & Nancy Whiteside.

News team Mrs A. Gore, Hannah Tear, Jamie Russell, Katy Watkinson, Taylor McKenzie, Megan Powderly & Finn Cromack

Next Week’s Clubs (11/7/11)

Monday School Council meeting (lunchtime)

KS2 French Euro Club 3.15-4.15 pm

Judo KS2 hall till 4.35 pm Y5 Hockey on MUGA till 4.30 pm Coach Bob Hale Tuesday KS2 French Euro Club 3.15-4.15 pm

Library (lunchtime) Windband Y1 till 4.10 pm Quadkids Y5/6 till 4.15 pm

Y5/6 Rounders Tournament at Meols Cop 3.45-5.15 pm

Wednesday Library (lunchtime)

Quadkids Y3/4 till 4.15 pm

Thursday Singing club (lunchtime)

Friday

Please collect the children from the playground and do not wait for them by the office.

There will be notification if there are any changes to these clubs.

Forthcoming EventsMonday 4th-15th July Arts Festival

Thursday 14th July Arts Festival Extravaganza 6-9.30 pm

Friday 15th July Arts Festival Parade 1.30 pm on field

Thursday 21st July Leavers Disco 6-8 pm

Friday 22nd July Leavers service 9.30 am Leyland Rd Methodist Church.

Please note there is an increase to school meals from 1st September 2011. Costs will be £1.70 per day/£8.50 per week. To help you work out how much to owe use the ready reckoner below.

Dinner Money Ready Reckoner1 day = £1.702 days = £3.40

3 days = £5.104 days = £6.805 Days = £8.50

If your child is absent for any reason please remember to deduct £1.70 from the following weeks money, as we carry forward these as credits and you will owe less money. In future we will be ringing parents, whether at home or at work to

ask them to bring late money into school.

Dinner Money Increase September 2011

Our most recent competition was a competition for a close-up photograph of an insect. Spiders seemed to be the

most popular subject. The winning photograph was also a spider, taken by

Archie Singleton from RRT. Congratulations Archie!

That is it from Competition Time for this year. Tune in to join in again, in

September.

Shinewaves Competition

Time

Star of the Week

Apologies to Charlie Marshall who was omitted from the listing issue 36.5M:Charlie Marshall Silver

FUSS (Free Uniforms for Schools)

A local charity called FUSS is looking to

provide children in Southport from low income families with a clean, well

fitting school uniform along with PE

kits, shoes, trainers and school bags.Any items of uniform which no longer

fit or are no longer used, to be kindly donated to the charity.

Please send them washed into school

a.s.a.p.

News team Mrs A. Gore, Hannah Tear, Jamie Russell, Katy Watkinson, Taylor McKenzie, Megan Powderly & Finn Cromack

Children in the Spotlight

Alex, Katie, Sian & Liam members of the School Council, presented Mrs Dixon from

Peterhouse School, with a cheque for £50. The School Council was keen to show support for Autism Awareness Day.

School Council Donation to Peterhouse School

Oliver & Jakob play for Southport Trinity A U8's Football Team who came 2nd in the Crosby Tournament. Fabulous!

Sam has gained his red belt, 9th kyu for karate. Terrific!

Jessica has passed her Level 5 Swimming Certificate. Brilliant!Isabelle has passed her 25m Rainbow Swimming award. Marvellous!

Max has passed his Stage 2 National Plan Swimming award. Super!

Caitlan has passed her 50m Rainbow Swimming award. Fantastic!

Bethany has passed her 50m Rainbow Swimming award. Wonderful!

Tom was awarded 2nd place in Sefton's Sport Personality of the Year. Awesome!

Year 3 pupils showed off their Spanish skills last week at La Fiestaval - a festival of languages at Greenbank High School. Pupils from primary schools

in Southport were invited to perform on stage before an audience of parents, teachers and pupils. Our Year 3 pupils wowed the audience with

Spanish songs, phrases and a little bit of magic!

Our Spanish stars were: Katie Halsall, Isobel Mills, Ben Potter, Rosie Morgan, Liam Hefferan, Oliver Starr, Taylor McKenzie and Rebecca Tomlinson.

Muchas Gracias ninos for representing Norwood and bien hecho!

Y3 Spanish Fiestaval

News team Mrs A. Gore, Hannah Tear, Jamie Russell, Katy Watkinson, Taylor McKenzie, Megan Powderly & Finn Cromack

We even stopped traffic...

Southport Schools Netball Tournament 2011

Once again Norwood & Holy Family Primary Schools hosted the annual ABC Netball

Tournament. It was a successful event with

14 schools participating. Mrs Kenrick was delighted to report that the N Netball

Team were runners up in the C

Tournament, whilst the C Netball team were runners up in the Central League.

Congratulations to both teams for their

wonderful achievements.

Molly Glinn, Abbie Wilson, Laura Pendlebury, Georgia Lonsdale,

Lucy Berry,Abi Wright, Aimee Crawford,

Bethany Hefferan

& Lauren McGough.

C Netball Team

Lucy Cottier, Elise Bond, Emily Marshall, Caitlin Healy,

Sophie Wright, Lauryn Richards, Leah Barry,

Anya Day & Natasha Leadbetter.

N Netball Team

Last week we enjoyed a lovely morning for the Junior Sports. The children had been placed in teams and took part in 10 different activities, set around the field.

Eventually the points were totalled up for each team & the winners were Greece.Then the children went over to the track to cheer on the sprint finalists.

Congratulations to the winners and well done to everyone else for their wonderful

team spirit!Sprint Winners

Year 3 winners were Emily Berry and Alex Day. Year 4 winners were Emily Hagan and Ollie Rimmer.

Year 5 winners were Libby Spencer and Tom Lawson.

Year 6 winners were Amie Blundell and Jamie Hough

With each team of infants being led out by a pair of Y6 children, their sports day started off and finished under beautiful blue skies. Each child was allocated a team

named after an animals and a range of activites were completed during the afternoon with the highlights being the soft javelin, the over and under relay and the hurdles. The animal noises sounded all over the field as the children enjoyed taking

part in the activities and trying to achieve their best scores in every event. Well done to the children, the Y6 for leading their groups and the parents for their enthusiastic

and excellent attendance.

Junior Sports Day

Infant Sports Day

Lost Property

Lost property will be available for collection on the playground after school during the next week. After which anything not collected by 15th of July will be

recycled.

Please ensure all items of uniform are clearly labelled

with your child’s name and class.

Thank you.