Last year we opened our very popular 'Starbooks Cafe' at Norton Hill Primary School. Starbooks Cafe provides families with a space to enjoy reading with their children whilst enjoying a hot beverage and a biscuit (or two!). We strive to foster a love of reading within our children and found that Starbooks sessions enabled families to be part of this. Starbooks is ran termly and offered across a range of year groups.

We often get requests from parents asking if they can bring sweets into school to celebrate their child’s birthday. As a healthy eating school our policy is that we do not support the sharing of sweets. However, we do recognise that birthdays are an important event in the lives of the children at our school, and they enjoy sharing their celebrations with their school friends. For those who would like to share something with their friends in school we are starting up a ‘Birthday Book’ corner in our school library.

If you wanted to celebrate your child’s birthday with their school friends, you could purchase a book for their classroom’s Birthday Book corner. The book you purchase can be enjoyed by your child and their classmates all year round. 

We are currently updating our wishlists for the next academic year. Watch this space!

To celebrate World Book Day this year, we invited children to dress as a word to enhance their vocabulary. We participated in a range of events including a vocabulary parade! Children spoke about their words throughout the day. As you can see, it was a very fun day for all.