AUTUMN TERM (1st September 2025 - 19th December 2025)
Monday 1st & Tuesday 2nd September - Inset days
Wednesday 3rd September - Children back to school (reception children finishing at 1:30pm this week)
Monday 8th September - All children in full time
Monday 8th September - New to Year 5 parent meeting
Tuesday 9th September - New to Year 1 parent meeting
Wednesday 10th September - New to Year 6 parent meeting
Thursday 11th September - New to Year 4 parent meeting
Friday 12th September - Flu vaccines in school (please see class dojo for more information)
Tuesday 16th September - New to Year 3 parent meeting
Wednesday 24th September - Y1 adventure day in Norton village
Thursday 9th October - School photographer in (individual photographs)
Friday 10th October - KS2 Cheltenham literature festival
Tuesday 14th October - EYFS & KS1 Cheltenham literature festival Please bring in a packed lunch, infants will not be back in time for hot dinners.
Friday 17th October - “keeping your children safe online” talk for parents in the village hall. 2:30pm-3:30pm. No assembly. Please attend if you are able to, it’s a very important session if your children have access to phones/games consoles/anything online.
Monday 20th October - Harvest collection week for Gloucester foodbank. You can drop off donations to the designated drop off point in school all week.
Monday 20th October - Whole school Diwali workshops
Tuesday 21st October - Whole school Diwali workshops
Wednesday 22nd October - Silent disco
Thursday 23rd October - Reception class stay and craft (reception parents/carers only) 9am-10am
Friday 24th October - Harvest assembly at 9:30am. All welcome! (there will be no sharing assembly in the afternoon because of this).
Friday 24th October - Final day for donations for the foodbank. Please drop all donations off by 9am.
Friday 24th October - Finish for half term at normal time
Half term: 27th to 31st Ocotober.
Wednesday 5th November - Scholastic book fair arrives at Norton
Thursday 6th November - Christmas shoebox appeal collection. Please bring in all shoeboxes by 9am on this day.
Wednesday 12th November - Last day of the book fair
Monday 17th November - Interim reports out
Tuesday 18th and Thursday 20th November - Parent evenings
Friday 21st November - Open afternoon for parents/carers. 2pm-2:30pm
Tuesday 25th November - Clarinet performances for years 3 and 4.
Each performance will be 15-20minutes long.
9:30am year 3 parents are invited to watch the year 3 clarinet performance
10:15am year 4 parents are invited to watch the year 4 clarinet performance
Friday 28th November - Performance to open the christmas tree festival at Norton Church
Monday 8th December - Infant Nativity dress rehearsal
Tuesday 9th December - Infant Nativity at 10am
Wednesday 10th December - Christmas dinner day (preorders only)
- NLL Christmas stay and play (9;30am-10:30am in the hall)
Thursday 11th December - Girls football sessions all day (see newsletter/dojo for more information)
- Infant Nativity (2pm - being filmed. No young children to attend please)
Thursday 18th December - Festive celebration assembly at 2:30. All welcome!
Friday 19th December - Finish for the Christmas holidays (gates open from 1:20pm)
SPRING TERM (5th January 2026 - 27th April 2026)
Monday 5th January - Inset day
Tuesday 6th January - Children return to school
Wednesday 14th January - Young voices (years 4/5/6)
Thursday 5th February - Reception class and Year 6 height and weight
Friday 6th February - Year 4 art afternoon (please see class dojo page for information)
Friday 13th February - Finish for half term at normal time
Half term: 16th to 20th February
Wednesday 25th February - PTA’s silent disco! Please see dojo for more information
Friday 27th February - Look who’s talking KS1 finals at Norton
Friday 6th March - Changes to reading at Norton. We would like to invite parents of children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 to a reading information meeting - Where: The Village Hall - Time: 2:45-3:10pm
Monday 2nd, Tuesday 3rd March - Puzzle man in for activities with juniors.
Thursday 5th March - World book day (Please read the newsletter for up to date events happening on this day)
Thursday 5th March (date change) - Year 1 & Year 2 drama workshop. please see class dojo pages.
Wednesday 11th March - Science day!
Thursday 12th March - EYFS&KS1 Mothers day morning
Friday 13th March - International day of mathematics celebration
Monday 16th March - Year 3 and 4 Easter ‘crafternoon’ with parents. see dojo pages.
Tuesday 17th March - Parent consultations
Wednesday 28th March - Reception, year 1, year 2 multiskills trip (packed lunches needed for all infants on this day)
Thursday 19th March - Year 4 class trip
Tuesday 24th March - Parent consultations
Thursday 26th March - Reception class trip
Thursday 26th March - Easter service @ 2:30pm
Friday 27th March - Easter potato rolling (please bring in a decorated potato)
Friday 27th March - Finish for the Easter holiday @ 1:20pm
SUMMER TERM (13th April 2026 - 17th July 2026)
Monday 13th April - Inset day
Tuesday 14th April - Children back to school
Saturday 18th April - Love your school day from 9:30am
Wednesday 22nd April - Y4 boys teambuilding sports trip
Thursday 23rd April - Y1 class trip
Friday 24th April - World Earth day - wear something green and bring in £1
Monday 18th May - Y6 bikeability week
Wednesday 20th May - Y3 class trip
Friday 22nd May - Finish for half term at normal time
Half term: 25th to 29th May
Tuesday 2nd June - Y5 class trip
Friday 5th June - Sports day starting at 9:30am on the field
Saturday 6th June - Celebrating 150years of Norton C of E Primary school
Tuesday 9th June - Photographer in (classes and leavers)
Tuesday 9th June - Y6 class leavers trip
Wednesday 10th June - PGL
Thursday 18th June - EYFS & KS1 fathers day morning
Wednesday 8th July or Thursday 9th July (TBC) - Infant summer multiskills
Wednesday 8th July - Junior play performance
Thursday 9th July - Junior play performance
Wednesday 15th July - Leavers assembly @ 10:30am
Thursday 16th July - Celebration assembly @ 2:30pm
Thursday 16th July - Dance festival
Friday 17th July - Finish for the summer holiday @ 1:30pm
