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100 Days Of School!

Pupils in the Juniors celebrated their 100th Day at school earlier this week and the pupils completed many different activities to mark this day. Reception class learnt that there are 10 ‘10s’ in 100 so decided to build a Lego tower of 100. They each built a tower of 10…

Year 6 Meet WW2 Evacuee

Last month, Year 6 were visited by Mr Brencher, who is a resident of Chingford. Mr Brencher was an evacuee during the second World War and spent 6 years away from his home and his parents while being looked after by foster parents. He was only 2.5 years old when…

Year 1 & 2 Become Perfect Poets

Some of the pupils from Year 1 and 2 were lucky enough to attend a workshop developing their poetry writing skills with the author of ‘Rastamouse’, Michael de Souza. The pupils spent the day telling stories through poetry, playing rhyming games, acting out the stories of ‘Rastamouse’ and even Miss…

A Twilight Music Concert

We were treated to a wonderful music concert on Tuesday evening to celebrate the progress of our young musicians in school. Many of our pupils take individual music lessons, and this was a fantastic opportunity for them to showcase how far they have come. Pupils of all ages took to…

Master Reader Challenge!

Normanhurst Juniors are making great progress in their Master Reader Challenge. During one of our recent assemblies, there were bundles of certificates, badges and gift books to be handed out to those who continue to take part in our reading challenge! The Master Reader Challenge is aimed to promote the…

Kindergarten Try Paint Scraping!

Today the Kindergarten children learnt about the artist Gerhard Richter, an abstract painter who uses scraped paint to create beautiful paintings. The children enjoyed picking their favourite colours and squirting them onto the paper, they then used a ruler to scrape the paint up and down to give a fantastic…

‘When I Grow Up’ Book Donation

A huge thank you to the Muscat family for donating 10 copies of the book ‘When I Grow Up’ to the Junior School. The books will be used across the Juniors during our upcoming STEM fortnight with great links to our themes of engineering and connections. We will then keep…

Year 5 Create Prints That Are Out Of This World

  Before Half Term, the students in Year 5 had a fantastic Art lesson creating some space-themed prints. They wowed with their creative designs and super prints! The children really enjoyed working in the Art Room and experimenting with the different resources and tools. Keep up the great work!  

Pancake Day!

What a fantastic afternoon filled with pancake fun. The children enjoyed mixing the pancake ingredients, choosing lots of yummy toppings and most of all eating the pancakes at snack time. The children also created collage pancakes and finished with a pancake flipping competition. Happy Pancake Day!  

A Very Successful Cake Sale

In response to the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria, Normanhurst held a cake sale on Friday morning to raise funds for this worthy cause. The sale was hugely successful, with a lot of money raised and most of the cakes sold.