Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Sponsored Silence Thursday 12 December

  Fri 29 Nov 2019

• Y5 Girls Fundraiser 12th December 2019

  Thu 28 Nov 2019 HB
  Three girls in Y5 have been very proactive and are planning a fund-raising day to raise money for Parkinsons and Cancer Research. Cara Bell, Alice Bonsall and Lilia Minton have planned the whole day from scratch. They have made posters, discussed their ideas with Mrs Bell, selected a date and they are now in the process of drafting a letter to parents which Miss Gill will type. The girls have identified a day - 12th December 2019 - which will be a dress down day (wear blue) and we will attempt a sponsored silence during assembly! Please look out for their letter - this will also be uploaded to the website under whole school letters. The girls have decided that they would like people to donate a minimum of 50p (more if you would like) for dressing down and being silent. Please donate to this very worthy cause.

  

• A spaceship has been seen in our playground

  Tue 26 Nov 2019 Mrs Sewell

• A strange craft has been caught on our CCTV cameras

  Tue 26 Nov 2019 Mrs Sewll
  We don't know where it came from or why it has chosen our school.  We are writing reports about it to inform other people about the space craft.  

  

• Fundraising

  Tue 26 Nov 2019

  Thank you to all our children who donated to the recent appeals in school.

   

  We raised £153.36 for the Poppy Appeal and

  we raised £168 for Children in Need.

   

  Well done everybody!!

  Team Norton!!

• Tom Palmer visits school

  Thu 21 Nov 2019
  We had a visit from an author, Tom Palmer on Tuesday 19th November. We started with an assembly and then he visited each of the classes in turn to talk about how he writes books. He has to do loads of research and he talks to many different people about the subject. He makes a scrap book about the characters and the plan for the story. It was really interesting and we all want to read some of his books! 

  

• Netball Festival at Sheffield Girls'

  Tue 19 Nov 2019 Mrs Sewell

  Y5 girls competed in a Netball Festival at Sheffield Girls' on Tuesday 19th November.  They  played against 5 other teams, played fantastic netball, and came first in the competition.  

   

  They won every game, and didn't concede a single goal in the entire competition.  

   

  Well done girls.  You are all amazing!

   

  Mrs Sewell

   

   

• Early Years Conference for parents of children aged 0-5

  Tue 19 Nov 2019
  

• Shoe Box appeal

  Mon 18 Nov 2019

  We have 17 shoe boxes for children stacked up in the entrance, can we get even more? They will be collected this week, so let's see if we can get even more! Thank you

  Team Norton

  

• D and T Day - Tuesday 22nd October

  Thu 07 Nov 2019

  A great day was had by all, as the children headed for the jungle on their D and T day!

   

  For the day, the whole school worked together on a broad range of designing and making activities which involved a variety of techniques including designing, drawing, assembling and making. The day encouraged children to learn to think  creatively to solve problems both as individuals and as members of a team.  

  In each year group the children worked through five stages in varying degrees of detail. They were:

  Background Research –Exploring context and existing products

  Design–Understanding their intended users and their own product

  Planning – Communicating ideas and creating prototypes for product

  Making – Selecting the tools and applying the practical skills and techniques

  Evaluation – Referring to planning and initial ideas in evaluating their product.

   

  The children had some amazing end products, including: Outdoor shelters, leaver and pulley systems to climb jungle vines, jungle shelters and bridges through the jungle canopy.

   

  Well done to everyone!