Your School: Normanby Primary School, Middlesbrough

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School: Normanby Primary

Address: Flatts Lane, Middlesbrough

Head: Carl Faulkner

How would you sum your school up? Normanby is a safe, caring and hardworking School. We have a great community who support the school, and a fantastic hardworking staff. The best bit of our school is undoubtedly the contribution our children make: every day is amazing at Normanby.

Tell us something we didn’t know about your school? For the last two years all our teachers have spent some time out of School researching educational innovation and good practice, this has really helped us understand how to get the best out of every lesson. This year my teachers have also all had the chance to volunteer with a local charity: this has really helped us strengthen bonds with our community.

What is your school motto/ethos? ‘Excellence and Enjoyment’ The staff all know that every child will be given a chance to shine at Normanby; for some children that may be through sport, the arts or their academic work. But they will all shine!

What has been your pupil’s biggest achievement in the past year? Our older children do work around internet safety that was original developed in partnership with the Police for students at University to study; last year every child who entered the exam passed. I am delighted that we are helping our children to grow up with a deeper understanding of how to stay safe.

What after school clubs do you run? Over the course of the year we will run around 45 different clubs. These include pupils running the school shop, programming computers, sports and the arts amongst a range of others.

Voice of the playground: ‘The teachers are great at educating all the children, I like maths the best’ - Scott Daniels, 10

‘The teachers are so funny!’ - Anna Gonzalez, 10

‘Its great that we get so many people in School, like Zenith Leisure because we do bushcraft and archery’ - Josh Payne, 11

‘I love the circus skills club we do after school, all my friends go and we get tto try different things and get better and better!’ - Lucy Hart, 11