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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!
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!
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.
Friday saw the return of the popular House Music competition at Normanhurst School. The competition saw some of our youngest and oldest pupils taking part in the fun-filled morning. Warren and Connaught House have both been putting in a lot of time and effort for rehearsals and on Friday it…
