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]Celebrating Crew @ Norton Infants
Digital Leading Experts @ Norton Juniors
Fossils, Discovery, and Coastal Exploration @ XP East
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As part of Mindful Monday this week, Crew White explored what it means to be a Change Maker and how we can make a positive difference to our school community.
We discussed the qualities that make a strong Change Maker, including being a good listener, showing courage, representing the views of others and being willing to take action rather than simply waiting for somebody else to make things better.
The children were then given the opportunity to apply for the role. Some children began their applications in school, while others chose to take an application home to complete for homework, giving them more time to think carefully about what they could bring to the role.
For those children who chose not to apply, they took on the important role of evaluating their school currently and making suitable suggestions for improvement.
Who will be Crew White’s Change Makers?
Dear Parents and Carers,
Important Update: School Allergy Policy, Nut-Free Guidelines, and Birthday Celebrations
We have an increasing number of pupils in our school with food allergies. Due to the severity of these allergies, we wish to remind you that we are a Nut Free School. Anaphylaxis (allergic reaction) can occur as a result of digestion, inhalation, or any other contact with nut-based products.
Please avoid any nut-based products for packed lunches or any snacks – this includes products that may contain traces of nuts.
Potential allergens could include the following:
This list is not exhaustive; therefore, it is important that you check the packaging of food products before sending your child to school with them. We understand that this can be difficult; therefore, we may return food items in lunchboxes if we are made aware that they contain nuts.
Please only send fruit into school for children to enjoy as snacks during break times.
In addition, due to recent allergy legislation changes (Benedict’s Law) and for religious reasons, we are unable to allow children to bring cakes or sweets into school for birthdays or special occasions. While we love celebrating special moments with our pupils, food items brought from home make it challenging to verify ingredients and guarantee safety for children with severe allergies.
To make a child’s birthday extra special, they can wear their own clothes to school so we can see it is their special day, so we can all celebrate together. If their birthday falls on a weekend or during the holidays, they can come in in their own clothes on the Monday we return to school.
For further advice on managing allergies, you may find these resources helpful:
Thank you for your understanding, cooperation, and continued support in keeping all of our pupils safe.
Warm regards,
Mr. S Longley
Head of School
All children and staff are safe, and no ill intent was meant by anyone involved.
This afternoon, a small incident occurred at school on the exterior fields. Staff swiftly implemented the lockdown procedure, and all children were safely and calmly brought inside the building. The police attended as per school procedures to assist with the incident.
We would like to reassure parents and carers that all children and staff are safe and happy in lessons.
If anyone has any questions, please speak to me or email [email protected].
Thank you for your support,
Mr Longley
Crew Godley took their learning outdoors for an exciting den-building challenge! Working together, we used natural and recycled materials to design and construct our own shelter.
We had to communicate, share ideas, solve problems and support one another as we worked as a crew. We thought carefully about how to make our den strong, stable and weatherproof, testing our ideas and making improvements along the way.
This challenge encouraged us to demonstrate our HoWLs and Character Traits, particularly compassion, courage and craftsmanship. We discovered that successful crew work isn’t about one person doing all the work – it is about listening to each other, sharing responsibility and helping everyone to contribute.
Most importantly, we had fun learning outside, getting creative and challenging ourselves together!
In Crew McLoughlin, we have been working hard to develop a secure understanding of place value. We have been exploring the value of each digit in a number and using our knowledge to read, write, partition and compare numbers. We have enjoyed using practical resources and mathematical representations to help strengthen our understanding and explain our thinking.
Year 4 put in fantastic effort during PE today, practicing their football control and dribbling skills.
We have enjoyed our first few lessons of our new expedition.
Today we unpicked what play is. We talked about how play can take lots of different forms such as imaginative and individual. Most of all we agreed that play should be fun!.
This is the definition of play that some of our crew came up with together.
“Play is when we have fun with our friends. We are kind and respectful to others. We can be a crew when we play together.”
We then went on to produce some beautiful work all about what play is.
Great work CrewRobson
As part of their morning task, they developed their fine motor skills by carefully threading pasta onto string. This activity helped to strengthen their hand-eye coordination, concentration, and control of small hand movements.
What a week we have had in maths! Crew MI have been amazing mathematicians this week and showed great resilience when tackling some tricky problems. We have used the concrete resources to support us with our learning and have played some great maths games along the way. Keep this great up as work up to millions next week!
