This newsletter provides information about upcoming term dates and events at Norwood Primary School. It recognizes student achievements in swimming and orienteering competitions. It also shares the results of a parent questionnaire, including feedback on reports, workshops, and parent-teacher meetings. The newsletter emphasizes the importance of punctuality and encourages parents to help students arrive at school on time.

1. NORWOOD NEWS ISSUE NO 1 8TH JANUARY 2010
News Team: Jamie Russell, Megan Powderly, Gabriel Angay,
Charlotte Fitzgerald, Heather Weights, Thomas Lawson, Lucy
Cottier & Luke Dempster
A Word from Mr. Dumbell
TERM DATES Happy New Year to all the children and parents of
Norwood and I hope that everybody has had an
Spring Term enjoyable and refreshing break and more
Half Term: Monday 15th – importantly that everybody enjoyed our period of
Friday 19th February (inc).
snow. I would like to take this opportunity to thank
all children for their lovely cards and presents. It
Parents Evenings
Tuesday 23rd February was very kind of you all.
Thursday 25th February This Spring term is always a very busy one and is always seen by schools as the best time
of the year for the children to make sustained progress now that the new school year and
School closes for Easter
holiday: at 2pm on Friday the excitement of Christmas has gone. However I can promise an exciting and eventful
26th March. term with lots of opportunities being made available to the children of Norwood and I'm
sure you will support us in our desire to develop Norwood further. We are currently having
Summer Term 2 activity trails installed onto the playground. The designs chosen by members of the
Children return to school: School Council will be another welcome addition to making the playground a more
Tuesday 13th April. interesting and active place to relax in. Once again I urge you to keep a note of all the
important dates from the side of the newsletter as we try to ensure you have advanced
Bank Holiday
Monday 3rd May. notice of forthcoming events. Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2010!
Orienteering
Half Term:
Monday 31st May-Friday 4th
Congratulations to the Junior Orienteering Winners, who took part in an Orienteering
June (inc)
Competition, at Norwood, in November. It was organised by Alison Belford, Meols Cop
School closed: High School’s Sports Co-ordinator. Children from Year’s 3, 4, 5 and 6 all participated and
Staff Training day-Monday great fun was had by all! Thank you Alison.
5th July
School closes for summer
holiday:
at 2pm on Wednesday 21st
July.
Autumn Term
2010
Children return to school:
Wednesday 1st
September 8.55am
Half term:
Monday 25th -Friday 29th
October
INSET Day:
Monday 1st November
Term Ends:
Friday 17th December at
2pm
Norwood Crescent, Southport. PR9 7DU. Tel: 01704211960. Fax 01704 232712. Head Teacher: Mr Lee Dumbell.
Email: admin.norwood@schools.sefton.gov.uk www.norwoodprimaryschool.com

2. Children in the Spotlight
Star of the
Week
RT: Charlie Green
RP: Lucy Rijken-Storey
1B: Paris Basson
1D: Arran Peacock Silver
1B: Adam Diss Silver
2W: Sian Drummond Silver
2W: Finlay Cromack
2M: Ryan Graham Silver
3B: Fahim Alom
3K: Emily Hagan
3K: Lewis Taylor
4CP: Lauren McGough
4JP: Nathan Onyett Jordan has passed his stage 3 Swimming Award and his 25m Award. Fantastic!
5P: All of 5P Joe has passed his level 2 Swimming Award. Congratulations!
5M: All of 5M Isabelle has passed her Stage 1 Swimming Award. Well Done!
6C: Kallum Graham Jamie has passed his 5m Swimming Award. Wow!
6C: Daniel Sherriff Katie has passed her Water Skills 3 Award. Wonderful!
6M: Nefertiti Mitchel Daniel was awarded Man of the Match, by his team Southport Trinity B under 9’s. Great!
Christmas Collections
At the end of each our recent Christmas plays and concerts, we held a collection to raise money towards our charity of
the year "Southport Lifeboats" and we are delighted to inform you that we raised £568. Once again this was a superb
gesture and we would like to thank our parents and friends for their wonderful support of this invaluable organisation.
Parents Questionnaires
At our last Parents Evenings in October we had 175 replies to our short questionnaire. We would like to thank everybody
for their time and effort in completing these as this helps us provide a better service to parents and pupils and should help
us to work together even more effectively in supporting the education of Norwood pupils. The main findings were:
1. The Meet the Teacher meetings in September are extremely useful but held at an inconvenient time.
2. The majority of parents felt the end of year reports were very detailed and liked the format.Some suggestions were
offered such as explaining the Foundation Stage Profile scores and a more information about all subjects in the curriculum.
3. Those people who have attended our courses and workshops have found them really enjoyable and beneficial.The most
popular sugestions for future courses were Maths, Art, Behaviour and Family Cooking. Once again the inconvenient time of
these events was identified as an issue.
4. There was alot of support for a more consistent approach across the school with home/school communication books.
5. A large majority of parents found the Parents Evenings very informative, but the main suggestions were about offering
refreshments, being able to look at their children's work and that the meetings were too short.
We intend to address as many of these issues and the suggestions from the recent Time to Talk meeting, as possible before
our next Parents Evening.
Good Punctuality
Can I remind parents and children that the doors open for school at 8.45 am every morning and that the whistle goes at
8.50 am. Please be on the yard for this time as school starts at 8.55 am and the register is taken then. Children arriving
after 8.55 am will receive a 'late' mark in the register. At Norwood we have high expectations of good punctuality as it is an
important skill for children to understand and respect. Please help us to support all children have a calm,relaxed and
undisturbed start to their school day. “Be on time at 5 to 9”