The PTA will have organised a Jubilee dress-up day on Wednesday 25th May.  Please see letter on the 'Letters to Parents' page.

Click here to access the 'letters to parents' page

Parents of children in Years 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 are invited to attend a meeting on Monday 4th April at 3.20pm in the Junior hall for further information or to ask questions about the residentials taking place. We will also deliver another meeting via Zoom on Thursday 7th April at 9.20am for parents unable to attend the Monday session. The zoom link is below:

Topic: Catalyst Residential Zoom Meeting

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/97618185412?pwd=ems2c29iUzM0ME1ZemI2VXFDUGp4UT09 

Meeting ID: 976 1818 5412
Passcode: x46GNp

We are delighted to welcome 30 children from Spain to Norman Pannell this week, who are visiting England on a cultural exchange.  The children and their teachers are gaining experience of English in our school for 4 mornings this week, then going off to explore Liverpool in the afternoons.

Having the students visit has been a great pleasure today and our junior children have enjoyed trying out their own Spanish in the classroom and on the yard, putting their weekly Spanish lessons into real practice!

Dear parents and carers,

We are delighted to finally be able to welcome you back into school, albeit with some restrictions, to look at your child's work.  It has been far too long since we have been able to do this and we are taking the earliest opportunity to do so.  Based on your questionnaire responses, we understand that it has been difficult for you to see how hard your child has been working across the curriculum, and the progress that he/she has been making.

We cannot go back to the old style of parents evening, where children and adults are completely free to move and mix around school, so we are organising a series of opportunities for parents/carers to come into the halls and look at their child's achievements.  We will ensure that social distancing and hand hygiene measures are in place.  We also recommend wearing of face masks/covering, although this is voluntary.  Tea, coffee and biscuits will also be provided. 

Please see the timetable below:

• 9:00 - 9:45am - Monday 7th March - Year 5 (Infant Hall) and Year 6 (Junior Hall)
• 2:15 - 3:00pm - Monday 7th March - Year 1 (Infant Hall) and Year 3 (Junior Hall)
• 9:00 - 9:45am - Tuesday 8th March - Year 4 (Infant Hall)
• 9:00 - 9:45am - Wednesday 9th March - Reception (Reception Classroom) and Nursery (Nursery Classroom)
• 2:15 - 3:00pm - Wednesday 9th March - Year 2 (Infant Hall)

The class teacher will be available in the hall for you to talk to or ask questions, should you wish to do so. 

If you are unable to make the specific date and time for your child, but would like to come in to see their work, we can arrange this by request.

These opportunities to come in to see your child's work in the hall will then be followed by a Parents Evening on Zoom next Thursday 10th March after school, for those parents who would like a further private conversation with the teacher.  The Zoom link and online booking form will be available after the class event in the hall.

We hope that the combination of these two events give you a full opportunity to engage with your child's learning.  You are welcome to come to one or both, but we would particularly encourage you to come to see the work your child has been doing during the year.

Kind regards,

Rob Simpson

(Head Teacher)

Our new timetable for this half term's extra curricular clubs has been published on our 'Extra-curricular clubs' page.  Further details of each club and booking forms can be found by clicking on 'Parents', then 'Extra-curricular clubs', or by simply clicking the link below:

Click here for our 'Extra-curricular Clubs' page 

We very much hope that your child can come along and enjoy one or more of our clubs with his or her friends.

We are pleased to announce our range of extra-curricular clubs for the coming half term.  These clubs change every half term and are tailored towards specific age ranges so that children have a choice of activities at different times during the year.  The activities below begin on Tuesday 11th January, starting with Gymnastics for Y3/4 and Computing for Y5/6.

We are proud to offer all of our clubs free of charge to parents and carers; we invest in this because we are inclusive and believe that all children should have access to a range of exciting activities outside of classroom time.

For the first time, we have been asked by some parents of children in Reception whether after school clubs are possible and so we are arranging for Dance to be the first Early Years activity after half term in Feburary.

We encourage children to regularly participate in any of our clubs by rewarding them with Children's University credits, which accumulate over the course of the year, leading to a graduation event at the end of the year, should they gain enough credits and qualify.

As part of our statutory curriculum, we will be teaching children in Y3-6 lessons about Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in the coming term.

We want parents to feel comfortable and informed about the curriculum that their children will be receiving, and to use it to promote healthy discussion between parents and their children as they grow up.

Please click on the link below to access a parent letter inviting parents to find out more at 4pm on Thursday 6th January.

Click here to access 'Parent Letters'

Thank you to all the parents who voted in the Parent Governor Election last week.  The votes were counted by Mr. Simpson and the Chair of Governors, Mr. Graham Maher, at lunchtime on Monday. 

The successful candidate and new parent governor at Norman Pannell is Michelle Broley.

We would like to thank both candidates for offering their time and expertise to help the school in our efforts to continually improve and raise standards.