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Junior Speech Day & Prize Giving 2025

Normanhurst School held our annual Junior Speech Day and Prize Giving, the perfect opportunity to celebrate the many achievements and successes of our pupils throughout the year. This year our guest speaker was Neelam Bhakar, a proud former Normanhurst School pupil, left Normanhurst in July 2022 to pursue A Levels…

EYFS Cooking Workshop

The children joined in with a sensory food workshop. They explored all the five senses through tasting, touching, looking, smelling and listening to a variety of foods. They snapped carrots and lettuce to hear the different sounds.

EYFS Bear Hunt

“We’re going on a bear hunt, we’re going to catch a big one”. The Early Years children walked through squishy mud, long wavy grass, through the river and through the forest on their search for the bear. The bear was found in the deep dark cave!

EYFS Moving Up Day

“Oh help, oh no, it’s a Gruffalo!” We had such fun on moving up day with a whole day based on the story “The Gruffalo”. We started by making Gruffalo crumble, adding in poisonous warts, purple prickles and yellow eyes! Then we created our very own Gruffalo faces by sticking…

EYFS, Infant & Junior Sports Day 2025

Team spirit was in the air at Lee  Valley Athletics Centre for this year’s Sports Day. Every single pupil got into the spirit of the day,  with homemade posters and team colours everywhere. The Early Years, Infants, and Juniors loved taking part in their many events, including running, bat and…

Senior Sports Day 2025

Lee  Valley Athletics Centre was filled with the sound of children cheering each other on during this year’s Senior Sports Day events. Every pupil got into the spirit of the day,  with homemade posters and team colours filling the audience stands. The track events were as competitive as ever, especially…

EYFS Celebration of the Year

The Early Years children put on a fantastic assembly to celebrate the fantastic year they have had in Early Years! Our theme was ‘Our Wonderful World’ and we sang ‘What a Wonderful World’, told the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar, watched an experiment to see how clouds are made,…

Faith’s Gymnastics Achievement

Faith in year 5 participated for the first time at English region level. She attended English Gymnastics Espoir Open on the 1st of June and came third place for her ball routine under 10 Bronze level. Faith found it quite a daunting experience having to perform in front of 31…

Chess Tournament

On Sunday Aurora and Lucia represented Normanhurst School at a Chess tournament. This was held at St Mary Marylebone CE School and organised by She Plays to Win and Chess in Schools and Communities. Aurora and Lucia each placed joint fourth in their category, winning three games out of five….

Year 9 trip to the Science Museum

Recently, our Year 9 students enjoyed an exciting and educational trip to the Science Museum, where they explored a range of fascinating galleries. In the Technicians Gallery, they had the opportunity to learn about STEM careers through a series of interactive exhibits, giving them valuable insight into real-world roles in…