This document provides the term dates and upcoming events for Norwood Primary School in Southport, UK. It lists the term start and end dates for the autumn 2010, spring 2011, and summer 2011 terms. It also announces upcoming school performances and events like the Christmas fair and pantomime. Short articles provide updates on classes visiting the local church to learn about the Ten Commandments and holding competitions related to Thanksgiving and The Chronicles of Narnia. The document closes with recognizing student achievements and announcing temporary changes to school meals due to kitchen renovations.

1. Norwood Crescent, Southport. PR9 7DU. Tel: 01704 211960. Fax 01704 232712. Head Teacher: Mr Lee Dumbell.
Email: admin.norwood@schools.sefton.gov.uk www.norwoodprimaryschool.com
Issue 12 26th November 2010
Norwood News
TERM DATES
Autumn Term 2010
Term Ends:
Friday 17th December. School
closes at 2pm
Spring Term 2011
Children return to school
Wednesday 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 school
Tuesday 19th April at 8.55am
School closed:
Good Friday 22nd April
Easter Monday 25th April
Children return to school
Tuesday 26th April at 8.55am
School closed:
Bank Holiday Friday 29th
April
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 school
Monday 5th September
Arts Festival Countdown
32 weeks to go
UP COMING DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
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 whole school 9.15 am and 10.30 am
Wednesday 15th December Christmas Craft morning 9-11 am
Thursday 16th December Christmas Fun Day
Rev. Knight pointing out where to find the Ten Commandments in his church.
Rev. Knight Lays Down the Law!
As part of the R.E. curriculum, Year 4 have been studying aspects of The Old
Testament. After learning that the Bible is like a library of books that is divided into two
parts, they made creation wheels and listened to some of the stories of the Old
Testament. On a wet, Wednesday afternoon last week, the children walked to Leyland
Road Church and worked alongside Rev. Knight. He explained about the Ten
Commandments, their meaning and how they were given to Moses on tablets of stone.
We all agreed that rules play a very important part in our lives and the children worked
in groups studying, illustrating and creating their own set of rules.

2. News team Molly Glinn, Hannah Tear, Megan Powderly, Jamie Russell, Katy Watkinson, Taylor McKenzie & Finn Cromack
Shinewaves Competition Time
KS1 Citizens
KS2 Citizens
Line Dancing
Sponsor money so far is £1980.00. Wow, that is amazing!
Keep it coming, even if it's a few pennies, they will all count!
Let's see if we can make £2000 before we close the fund.
What a festival
it will be!
Louis Sumner RRT
Robbie Morgan RJT
Sam Sproat 1D
Amy Farquharson 1B
Rebecca Kilduff 2M
Jordan Monahan 2W
Katie Halsall 3H
Sean Gowers 3K
Katy Watkinson 4M
Emily Hagan 4P
Matthew Vansprang Rimmer 5M
Hannah Tear 5B
Jamie Hough 6P
Sol Wilkinson 6C
Mrs Bennet’s Citizens
Katie Badley
Ellie Hanks
Last week’s competition was to design a Thanksgiving menu. The winner was… or rather the winners
were the Day family who worked together producing a Thanksgiving booklet. Congratulations Anya,
Alex and Erin!
Now to this week’s competition.
C.S. Lewis was born on 29 November 1898. Lewis, an Irish author and scholar, is best known for his series ‘The Chronicles of
Narnia’. This week’s competition is to create your own book cover for one of the Narnia stories. Remember to include the
title and the author. If you want to include some blurb you can create a back cover as well!
Pop your entries in the competition post box, outside the hall, by the morning of Wednesday 1st
December with your name
and class on the back.

3. CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE EXCITING PHOTOGRAPHS @ www.norwoodprimaryschool.com
Star of the Week
RJT:Tom Whiteside
RJT:Faith Johnson
RT:Summer Mitton
RT:Daniel Willams
1B:Joshua Marshall
1B:Lia Funnel
1D:Lucy Murray
2M:Matthew Bishop
2W:Kyla Blackburn
3K:Ryan Queenan
3H:Jessica Hay
4M:George O'Driscoll
4M:Oliver Rimmer
4P:Georgia Proud
5B:Jack Redshaw
5B:Ria Milford (Silver)
5M:Lauren McGough
6C:Lewis Hitchcock
6C:Alicia Escreet
6P:Caitlin Healy
6P:Jaydon Lavelle (Silver)
Children in the Spotlight
All Souls Dramatic Club 2010 Costume Design Competition (Issue 3)
Abbie recently went along to All Souls Dramatic Club and received a VIP pass to Dame
and 2 tickets to see Sleeping Beauty as well as a certificate. For those of you that can’t
quite place issue 3 of our newsletter, the competition was to design a fabulous blue and
silver costume for their pantomime dame to wear at the ball in their January production of
Sleeping Beauty.
Abbie was up against some stiff competition with 12 other schools taking part.
Congratulations Abbie!
(See Issue 3 for
competition details)
Bethany & Robert from the 61st
Cubs won the Dominoes
Competition organised by the
Southport District Cub
Scouts. Congratulations!
Charlie was awarded mascot for
his Morris Dancing in the 2010
Championships. Wow!
Eliot has passed
his Stage 1
National Plan
Swimming Award
& his 10 Rainbow
Swimming Award.
Fantastic!
Jamie has passed his 200m
Swimming Award & was
awarded Man of the Match by
Hesketh Colts U'7s
Football Team. Awesome!
Jay has
passed his
Stage 3
National
Plan
Swimming
Award.
Wonderful!
Joshua was
awarded
Player of the
Month by his
squash club.
Terrific!

4. News team Molly Glinn, Hannah Tear, Megan Powderly, Jamie Russell, Katy Watkinson, Taylor McKenzie & Finn Cromack
Lost Property
We have several children's watches in our lost
property, an ipod shuffle, keys, a pair of children’s
glasses, earrings and jewellery.
If you think you or your child may have lost any of
these items, please call in at the school office.
After School Activities
In line with our Missing Child Policy we will always
ring you to see
where your child is if they have not turned up for
an after school activity.
Please don't let your child sign up if they are not
willing to attend every week.
However, if your child is not going to be
participating in an activity it is
vitally important that you let the teacher know.
You can either send in a
letter, ring or email
admin.norwood@schools.sefton.gov.uk
Please be aware teachers cannot commence any
of the activities until
they know children are safe in your care. A lot of
unnecessary time
is wasted lately trying to locate missing children!
Southport Lifeboat Charity
Fern, Darcy, Harry & Thea, of the School Council,
are pictured with this super photograph of the
Southport Lifeboat. It was presented with thanks
to the school for the wonderful support we gave
to this local charity, last academic year.
School Meals
Catering staff will be unable to work in the kitchen from
Monday 29th to prepare food and this is where we will
need your support.
Children who usually pay for hot dinners will have to bring
in a packed lunch for possibly several weeks until the
kitchen can be re-opened.
We really do appreciate it is not an ideal time especially
during the cold weather season when a choice of a hot
meal is preferable.
We are able to provide children having free meals with a
packed lunch as these can be brought in from another
dispatch kitchen in the area.
We apologise for the inconvenience this is likely to cause
and really hope it won't be for too long.