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• Grand Opening of the New NJK Library Friday 3rd May 2024

  Tue 07 May 2024

  What a wonderful morning Friday was! One our pupils and school community will not forget. 

  On Friday 3^rd May, staff, pupils and special guests enjoyed a visit from MP Nigel Huddleston.  He toured the school, met the children and officially opened the library. Many thanks to Ms Szabo for taking beautiful photographs of the event, including the magnificent celebration cake made by Mrs Fincher and the cutting of the grand opening ribbon.

  

• Phonics Information Workshop for Parents Wednesday 28th February 2024

  Thu 29 Feb 2024

  It was great to see so many of you at our recent parent workshop. The resources and videos shared during the session can be found by clicking on the following link:

  „Parent guide to Read Write Inc. Phonics - Oxford Owl

  The school presentation can be found on the class pages for Rowan and Willow.

• NJK Sensory Garden

  Thu 08 Feb 2024

  We are excited to announce that NJK now has a sensory garden area at school. Thanks to NHS Public Health Innovation Fund and Welcome to our Future small grants for accepting our bid. A huge thank you to Little Acres for building something so beautiful.

  

• EYFS and KS1 Art Gallery

  Thu 08 Feb 2024

   

  St James Norton Hosts Exhibition of Local Children’s Artwork - Diocese of Worcester (cofe-worcester.org.uk)

  

• New library Plans!

  Thu 14 Dec 2023

  Staff and pupils are looking forward to a redesign of the school library this academic year. NJK PTFA are working hard to raise money to support this project and we thank everyone for their fundraising efforts this term, so far.

  Here are some of the first ideas of a possible design!

   

  

• NJK is a beacon of light, love and joy in this community and beyond...SIAMs Report 2023

  Fri 08 Dec 2023

  Please see our recent Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS) Report:

  siams-report-norton-juxta-kempsey-church-of-england-vc-primary-school-144586-151123.pdf (primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com)

   

   

• iSingPOP Intergenerational Project and Concert

  Fri 01 Dec 2023

   

  We were thrilled to welcome iSingPOP teacher, Jessica into school yesterday, 30^th November to lead an Intergenerational Christmas Workshop Day.

  It was an opportunity for parents and grandparents to join their child/grandchild for a session of iSingPOP. Everyone learnt songs and dances based around the Christmas story. What a wonderful way for different generations to work together. 

   

  Following the workshop day our families will be given the opportunity to perform in the iSingPOP concert forming a choir with Whittington CE Primary School.  This will be held at St Mary’s Church on

  Tuesday 5^th December at 6pm and promises to be a fantastic event. The timetable for the concert day is as follows:

   

   

  

• Harvest Service

  Mon 23 Oct 2023

  Our Harvest service took place on Thursday 19^th October. This year we supported Worcester Street Cafe. We collected the following food items and made 'goody bags' 

  • any bread white or brown or rolls
  • spread such as Flora/Clover etc
  • ham or cheese
  • bag of crisps
  • chocolate bar or biscuit bar 

  Parents and pupils came into school to assemble the 'goody bags' on Thursday 19^th October from 7.30am-8.45am. Mrs Pasmore delivered these necessary food items to Worcester Street Cafe later on in the day.

  

• Behaviour Workshop

  Wed 04 Oct 2023

  Behaviour Workshop and Slides please click here https://www.nortonprimary.worcs.sch.uk/behaviour/

• A special visit from the Diocese of Morogoro Tanzania

  Tue 03 Oct 2023

  Today we said 'karibu' to Canon Isaac Mgego from the Diocese of Morogoro in Tanzania. All of the pupils enjoyed collective worship with our guest and visits to their classrooms. Isaac taught the pupils how to say welcome (karibu) and thank you (asanti) in Swahili.