Yorkshire Air Ambulance 🚁

24th May 2023Elouise Chadwick

We’ve had an amazing visit today. Holly came to talk to the children about the Yorkshire Air Ambulance service. We learned all about where the helicopters live, how fast they travel and the places they might go to.

Isla shared the incredible news about her mum, who recently ran the London marathon and raised £1000 for this amazing charity 👏

A big thanks to all those who have kindly donated to the charity’s clothes bank. It costs £19,000 each day to keep this amazing crew going so every little helps.

Back in the classroom the children have enjoyed writing about what they have learned from our expert visitor…

We are writers ✍

3rd May 2023Elouise Chadwick

We have been working hard to write simple sentences this week. The children have used their phonic knowledge to spell words and also tried hard with their letter formation.👏 What super stars you all are!

Bonds to 10 🔢🔟

28th April 2023Elouise Chadwick

This week the children have really impressed me with their maths skills. We have been finding pairs of numbers that make 10. We have used numicon and multilink to help us find all our number bonds to 10. This is us working hard in Maths this week…

Once upon a time…

26th April 2023Elouise Chadwick

This week we have been reading ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.

We thought about how Red Riding Hood travelled to her Granny’s house and made maps of her journey…

We enjoyed acting out the story in our story circle using props 😁 We had some great performances 👏

Mapping it out

20th April 2023Elouise Chadwick

We have created some beautiful work this week. We have been looking at a book titled ‘Martha Maps it Out’. We made links between the map of her local area and what we might find in ours. We took the children on a walk around Norton to see if we were right.

We enjoyed our walk and the children behaved beautifully!

Back in school we have mapped out our journey and have created some beautiful work. Here are some of our amazing maps…

The wheels on the bus 🚌

18th April 2023Elouise Chadwick

We have been getting excited about our new expedition ‘would you travel by wheels, wings or other things?’

The children enjoyed hopping on a vintage bus today. We looked at the different parts of the bus and enjoyed a sing song together.

We worked hard in our crew session this morning to make our own buses using the construction materials outside…

Great job Class 1 😁👍 xx

Final Touches and Bear-ginng our farewells!

3rd April 2023Sarah Winkley

The finishing touches have been added to our bear cub, with Olivia completing his head and each child from the foundation stage putting their hand print on his back as part of our community crew. All that remained to do, was for the logos to be attached and the bear to be varnished before Crewso began his journey to Leeds to join the Leeds Bear Hunt for the summer.

Crewso said his farewells to Norton and began his journey all shiny and proud, to represent the children of Norton Campus!

He was excited to meet his new temporary crew when he arrived in Leeds, stopping for a minute to take in the view of the River Aire across Rose Wharf in the sunshine. Then he happily climbed the stairs and joined his pack ready to be situated in his new home somewhere in Leeds City Centre. He’s going to let us know exactly where he is soon, so that we can all go and visit him! Have fun Crewso! #leedsbearhunt #leedsbearhunt2023 #leedshospitalscharity

Easter Fun 🐣

31st March 2023Elouise Chadwick

We’ve had another great week in class 1. We’ve made spring time bunting, Easter nests, been on an egg hunt and even had a special visitor 🐰🐾

Happy Easter everyone 🙂

Farewell to our furry friends… 🐥

31st March 2023Rebecca Kendrew-Jones

Yesterday we said goodbye to the 13 chicks we have been looking after for the last ten days. The children have been fascinated watching them hatch and develop in such a short space of time. When they left yesterday most of the chicks had started to grow their wing feathers and some were even beginning to take flight!

The children in EYFS have helped with cleaning their brooder boxes, changing their water and replenishing their food. Best of all, they’ve loved taking it in turns to hold them. We have been so impressed with how kind and gentle the children have been when handling them.

The chicks were collected by The Happy Chick Company who will now take care of them on their farms where they will produce free range eggs for the supermarkets. We wish the chicks a very happy life roaming the countryside 🐥.