Year 2 - Pearl and Topaz Classes: News items

National Online Safety Award for Northmoor

Date: 24th Feb 2024 @ 2:57pm

We are delighted to share the news that Northmoor Academy has successfully completed a comprehensive online safety training programme demonstrating our commitment to keeping children and young people safe online.  This means we have received a National Online Safety Certified School Accreditation in recognition of our whole school community approach to protecting children in the online world.

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We know that learning how to stay safe online is very important to all our children.  We also know that it’s important that parents and carers know how to do this too and we would like to thank all our parents and carers who undertook one of the short courses that helped us to achieve this award. 

If you would like to take the short, helpful course, please click here

Pictures from our lates Safer Internet Day activities are available on our class pages.  

Sir Lenny Henry Shares his Books with Harmony Year 4s

Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 11:48am

Nearly 300 Year 4 children at six Harmony Trust academies across Oldham and Tameside were treated to an amazing visit from author Sir Lenny Henry.

Children from Northmoor, Richmond, Greenhill, Alt, Westwood and Greenfield academies attended a very special event led by Sir Lenny Henry at Northmoor Academy.   Over 800 Harmony Trust pupils from Derby also joined the event online in their classrooms.  Organised in conjunction with local booksellers, Madeleine Lindley as part of The Harmony Trust’s ‘Read, Achieve, Succeed’ strategy, Sir Lenny came and spoke to the children about reading, writing and his journey to becoming an author.  He went on to read excerpts from his book ‘The Boy With Wings.’

Sir Lenny told the children how reading was his best friend when he was a child growing up in Dudley and he credited his Auntie Pearl with opening up the world of reading to him by taking him to the local library.

The children were able to ask Sir Lenny about his writing process (which involved lots of Jammie Dodgers), Comic Relief, his books and his heritage.  They even created a story with him about a boy named Joe who lives underwater and has special, superhero powers.

Jessica Hainsworth, Director of Education for The Harmony Trust, and co-founder of the ‘Read, Achieve, Succeed’ strategy said: “The children had a fantastic time at the session and listening to Sir Lenny Henry’s description of his relationship with reading and writing has inspired our children to want to write more.  Diversity really does matter in children’s literature, and it was wonderful to bring Sir Lenny’s experience and stories to our children, who absolutely loved hearing about Tunde’s adventures.”

The children agreed with pupils from Greenhill Academy commenting:

Reem: “I like how Lenny's stories are set in a school, we could relate to this.”

Musa: “I liked that we found out what inspired Lenny to write his books.”

Madeeha: “I liked him as he was very funny.”

Rachelle Carter from Madeleine Lindley added: “We were delighted to work with The Harmony Trust to bring another author to visit the children, especially one as inspirational as Sir Lenny Henry.  We know that visiting authors add another dimension to reading for children and they can inspire children to look at literature in a different way.”

UK Health Security Agency back to school advice

Date: 9th Jan 2023 @ 4:01pm

Parents/carers please read letter attached. 

Group A Strep Letter to Parents/Carers

Date: 7th Dec 2022 @ 2:09pm

Please download letter attached. 

Consultation for Admissions Policies 2024-2025

Date: 6th Dec 2022 @ 8:16pm

Consultation for The Harmony Trust Admissions Policies 2024-25

The Harmony Trust is an Admission Authority and we have a requirement for the Trust to consult on the admission arrangements for all our schools at least once every 7 years.

Therefore, we are undertaking a consultation relating to the Admissions Policies for 2024-25 for all schools within The Harmony Trust, this consultation will commence on Monday 5th December 2022 and will end on Tuesday 31st January 2023.  Each regional Hub has its own policy, the schools covered by this consultation are as follows:

Tameside Hub Derby Hub
Greenfield Primary Academy Alvaston Junior Academy
  Ash Croft Primary Academy
Oldham Hub Carlyle Infant & Nursery Academy
Alt Primary Academy Cavendish Junior Academy
Greenhill Primary Academy Cottons Farm Primary Academy 
Northmoor Primary Academy Hackwood Primary Academy
Richmond Primary Academy Reigate Primary Academy
Westwood Primary Academy Lakeside Primary Academy
  Village Primary Academy

 

Derby Hub – The proposed amendment to the Admissions Policies is to have one policy relating to all the Derby Academies within The Harmony Trust. The wording of the policy has been reviewed to ensure greater clarity for parents and carers and compliance with the School Admissions Code and in accordance with Derby City Council’s admissions criteria.

Tameside and Oldham Hubs - It should be noted that there are no changes to the oversubscription criteria. The wording of the policy has been reviewed to ensure greater clarity for parents/carers and compliance with the School Admissions Code.

The Consultation Process
We would welcome your views on the proposed admission arrangements.  The proposed Admission Policies for 2024-25 can be found here:

Derby Hub Proposed Admission Policy

Oldham Hub Proposed Admission Policy

Tameside Hub Proposed Admission Policy

Notification of the consultation is being communicated by the Trust to the following: 

  • The Local Authorities – including Tameside, Oldham, Derby
  • All parents and carers of pupils of the Trust 
  • Other persons who in the Trust’s opinion have an interest in the proposed admission policies.

If you wish to comment on the policies, you are welcome to respond by emailing comments to info@theharmonytrust.org or if you have any questions, please contact The Harmony Trust Central Office on 0161 260 0482 extension 15.  Any comments should clearly indicate which Hub policy it relates too.

At the end of the consultation process all responses will be collated and presented to the Trust Board for full consideration.  The Admissions Policy for 2024-25 must be approved and published by 28th February 2023.

 

Parents/carers we need you...

Date: 15th Mar 2022 @ 1:48pm

Dear Parent/Carer,

Parental feedback and input into our academies continue to be of great importance to the Harmony Trust.  We believe that parents can help us shape our strategies, address challenges, and share successes. 

Alongside our parent forums, we are looking for parents to help our research team evaluate the impact of Trust-wide projects on them and their children.  To ensure we can monitor changes over time, ideally we would like the same parents to respond each time.  If possible, we are asking that parents to sign up to answer these surveys 3 to 4 times per year. 

Our first project is to look at the impact of the 1-2-1 devices (iPads for all KS2 children) on children and their families through our Harnessing Technology Maximising Learning (HTML) strategy.   

The surveys will take around 10/15 minutes to fill in.  They will help us identify any changes we need to make and identify successes that we can share across our academies.   

Your data will be held securely and will be anonymous, although we will ask for the school and year group your child is in on each survey. 

If you would like to help, please click on the link below and complete the form to register your interest. 

Parent Recruitment Form

Thank you. 

 

Out of this World - The iPads have landed!

Date: 6th Jul 2021 @ 6:44pm

By September, all the children in KS2 (Years 3 to 6) will have their own iPad to use to support their learning in class.  We are very excited about this exceptional project and are exploring where they might take us in our "Out of this World" event.  Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/Northmoor_HT for updates!

 

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School Reopening Details - September 2020

Date: 19th Aug 2020 @ 6:58pm

Return to School and Breakfast Club Arrangements

We are very much looking forward to welcoming the children back in September.  To help with social distancing, the children's return to school will be staggered over several days:

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, parents must leave their children at the main school gate on Alderson St at the start of the school day.  

Breakfast Club

Breakfast Club will no longer be in the school hall but in your child's classroom from 8:30am.  Sadly, this means parents can no longer attend breakfast club with their child/ren.

End of Day Arrangements

There will be a one-way system through the school grounds for parents/carers to pick up their children.  Staff will be on hand to help direct parents/carers.  Please arrive at the main gate on Alderson Street at home time.

Thursday Afternoon Closure

To maintain the "bubble system" during the Covid-19 pandemic, school will be closed from 1:30pm every Thursday from 10th September to allow preparation and planning time.

If you have any queries, please contact school on the following email: info@northmoor.theharmonytrust.org

Coronavirus Update for parents

Date: 17th Feb 2020 @ 3:48pm

The following advice for parents / guardians has been received from the Department for Education

You should not be unduly worried about the possibility of your child catching the Coronavirus.

There is no reason why your children should not continue to attend their early years, school or further education setting as normal. 

We recognise that some families or children may be planning to travel during the forthcoming half term period.

If so, please refer to the FCO's latest travel advice:

Click here  

Government website: 

Click here 

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