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Norton Infant School

Be Kind, Work Hard, Get Smart

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Norton Infant School Logo
  • About Us
    • School Information
      • Governance
      • Statutory website information
    • Ofsted
    • Our School Day
    • Safeguarding
    • Our Staff Crew
    • Our curriculum
      • Expeditions
      • Crew
      • Our School Culture
      • The Early Years Foundation Stage
      • Early Reading and Phonics
    • Holiday Dates
    • Contact Us
    • Performance Data
    • Upcoming Events
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    • Current Expeditions
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Norton Infant School
  • About Us
    • School Information
      • Governance
      • Statutory website information
    • Ofsted
    • Our School Day
    • Safeguarding
    • Our Staff Crew
    • Our curriculum
      • Expeditions
      • Crew
      • Our School Culture
      • The Early Years Foundation Stage
      • Early Reading and Phonics
    • Holiday Dates
    • Contact Us
    • Performance Data
    • Upcoming Events
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  • Students
    • Current Expeditions
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      • Log a repair/request
      • Administer First Aid
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Contact the school

Call 01302 700743 Email [email protected]

Nursery’s introduction to Crew.

2 September 2025

This week Nursery have began to learn what Crew is? And how we take part in it?

We have circled up using our special circle song and we have began to become more familiar with our Crew leader’s. Each crew has the name of a bird as their Crew name and a little pet to help the children to understand being kind, helping them to focus and concentrate whilst take turns to speak. We wonder if you can guess the names of our Crews?

Our focus this week is one of our core principles “ Being Kind”. We are teaching this through a host of stories about kindness and friendship, in particular “Kind” by Axel Scheffler where the key character is lion. This links to our characteristic’s of effective learning character’s, where we encourage the children to show kindness like a “Loving Lion”. Being kind underpins everything we do at Norton Infant School, especially in the Early Years as it helps children to build strong bonds and relationships with each other and staff. This character trait is essential for learning those early social skills, how to treat others, how to play fairly and respectfully and how to look after each other and our Nursery. Let us know if you catch your child being kind – Look out for reward stickers and certificates to praise their acts of kindness this week.

Did you guess our Crew names?

That’s right Crew Puffin’s, Crew Blackbirds, Crew Penguins and Crew Robin’s.

Crew, English, Front Page News, Nursery

Thinking About Our New Expedition

1 September 2025

This week the children have been busy exploring ideas for our brand-new expedition. We began by asking ourselves: what could our learning journey be about? and what might our guiding question be?

To help us, we looked at some amazing legacy products that children have created in past expeditions. We discovered superhero Top Trumps cards, a comic book, and even watched a video of children marching proudly around Norton. These exciting examples gave us lots of clues and inspiration for our own journey.

The children thought carefully about what makes a powerful guiding question and shared some fantastic ideas of their own. We are excited to keep building on these thoughts as we begin our expedition together – watch this space!

Beautiful Work, Class 5, Front Page News

Hook Week Adventures: Supertato and the Super Veggies!

1 September 2025

As part of our exciting Hook Week, the children dived into the story of Supertato! We had so much fun meeting the brave superhero potato and the mischievous Evil Pea. The children loved joining in with the story, spotting the clues, and talking about what makes a superhero.

Inspired by Supertato’s adventures, we then got creative and designed our very own super veggies! From carrots with capes to broccoli with superpowers, the children let their imaginations run wild. Each creation was unique and showed off their brilliant ideas.

It was a fantastic way to kick-start our new topic and get everyone excited about the learning ahead. The classroom is now full of colourful, heroic vegetables keeping an eye out for any pesky peas!

Art, Beautiful Work, Class 5, Front Page News

Does Crew Stop at the School Gates?

29 August 2025

What an amazing first week in Class Six!

This week we dove head first into crew, and have been thinking all about how we can help ourselves and each other be the best versions of ourselves. As part of this, we have been thinking about the question “does crew stop at the school gates?”. We put together little gift packages, and this morning we went our of school and delivered them around Norton.

It has been lovely getting to know Class Six this week, and we cannot wait to start our new expedition next week!!

Class 6, Crew, Front Page News

Year Two: Does Crew Stop at the School Gates?

29 August 2025

This week, Year Two have been exploring our new guiding question: “Does Crew stop at the school gates?” We began the term by thinking carefully about what it means to be part of a crew, not just in our classroom but in our wider community too.

Throughout the week, children took part in a range of activities designed to reconnect us as a crew after the summer break. We shared stories, took new crew photographs, created self-portraits for our classroom displays, and agreed on norms to help guide how we want our classroom to look, feel and sound. We also enjoyed team-building games and challenges, reminding ourselves that we are always stronger when we work together.

A real highlight was our work on kindness. Each child wrote a thoughtful kindness poem, which was carefully packaged alongside small treats into gift bags. In the afternoon, we set out together to deliver these kindness bags around Norton. The children were so proud to share their poems and gifts with members of our local community, showing that acts of compassion can travel far beyond the school gates.

This project helped us to see that crew is not just something that happens inside the classroom – it is about how we connect with and care for others wherever we go. We are excited to continue exploring this question throughout the year.

Beautiful Work, Class 5, Crew, Front Page News

Our First Day Back at School

26 August 2025

What a brilliant first day we’ve had back at school today! It was wonderful to see all the children arriving this morning with big smiles, smart uniforms and lots of excitement (and a few little nerves too – which is completely normal!).

The children have settled back into school life so quickly. We spent time getting to know our new classroom, reminding ourselves of our routines and expectations, and most importantly, enjoying being back together as a crew.

A big focus for us today was on the character trait of Craftsmanship and Quality. Using the artist Piet Mondrian as our inspiration, the children worked carefully and thoughtfully to create some beautiful pieces of artwork of their own – we were so impressed with the pride they took in their work.

We also shared the story Our Class is a Family. Together, we thought about our families at home and then reflected on what will make our classroom feel like a family too. The children came up with some wonderful ideas about kindness, teamwork and looking after one another.

There were also plenty of opportunities for fun games and team challenges to help everyone feel comfortable and confident. It was lovely to see new friendships beginning to form and old ones picking up right where they left off.

We are so proud of how brilliantly the children have started the year. This is going to be an exciting term filled with learning, discovery and new adventures – and today was the perfect start!

Well done, everyone – we can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings.

Mrs Parsons and Miss Tinker xx

Beautiful Work, Class 5, Crew, Front Page News

Pre-ordering your child’s lunch

18 August 2025

From Friday 22nd August you can start pre-ordering your child’s lunches using Relish’s Parent Portal. You can also view menus and download recipes!

Please find below instructions on how to do this.

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Front Page News

Celebrating a year filled with stars!

18 July 2025

In our final community meeting all the children in class 1 and 2 were announced as our stars! We have had the most incredible year watching them grow and flourish. We know they will continue to shine bright in year one! Well done to each and everyone one of you, you should all be very proud of your achievements this year!

Class 1, Class 2, Front Page News

Sharing our Stories: 18/07/2025

Author Profile
18 July 2025

Realsmart Admin

Beautiful Work This Week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust from the last two weeks of term! It’s been filled with all kinds of wonderful things from all of our schools. To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

Top of the Blogs

Why the Arts Matter at XP – Our Festival Highlights @ XP Trust

Year 6 leavers party 2025 @ Green Top

EYFS Sports Day @ Plover

Prom 2025 @ Carcroft School

At the Coalface: POL @ Norton Juniors

Climate Change Through Data @ XP

Crew Rosa Parks @ XP East

G29 What a Wonderful World POL @ XP Gateshead

Share your stories with us!

We now have a new dedicated news email so that you can send your stories, updates or ideas about potential news articles directly to us in Comms.

It might be something you or your students have achieved, a charity you’re supporting or anything at all that deserves a wider audience.

Write to us at [email protected] –  we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!

From all of us here at XP – have a great summer break! We’ll be back in the new term with more beautiful work to share!

Front Page News

Why the Arts Matter at XP – Our Festival Highlights

Author Profile
18 July 2025

Marianne Staves

At XP, we believe education should help young people discover who they are, what they stand for, and how they can make a difference. The arts are at the heart of this.

Through music, dance, drama, and visual art, our students learn to collaborate, express themselves, and craft work of real depth and beauty. These aren’t “extras” to the curriculum – they are essential experiences that develop the character traits we value above anything else: courage, craftsmanship, respect, and compassion.

Last Friday, we celebrated these values at our second XP Festival of Arts & Culture – a day filled with music, dance, and art from across all the schools in our Trust. Every primary school showcased their dancing skills in collaboration with Phoenix Dance Company, alongside cheerleaders and singers from across the Trust.

The afternoon culminated in a show-stopping parade led by the New York Brass Band, bringing everyone together for an unforgettable rendition of Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration”. The evening carried the energy forward with live music from XP Doncaster and XP Gateshead students, alongside local bands and professional artists.

Our students were phenomenal – both on stage and in the audience – showing once again the power of Crew in action.

A huge thank you goes to the XP Doncaster and Plover staff who stewarded and supported the event. It was a powerful example of what’s possible when we create spaces for young people to thrive.

Here’s to next year!!!

In Crew,

Andy Sprakes

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Campsall Balk
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