The Norwood School Gardening Club has been doing its first session with our new school gardener Beatrice Dandy. This project has been funded by Lambeth Public Health in partnership with the Norwood Forum to bring new health and wellbeing projects to the residents of Gipsy Hill.
Thanks to everyone for their generous contributions to our Ukraine appeal today. So fun to see how many staff and students made the effort to show their solidarity wearing blue and yellow.
This week has been an exceptional week for the Norwood Basketball Academy. Starting with our trip to Manchester, being the only School taking 32 students to watch and support one of our own, Juelz Robinson. Juelz, one of the most exciting players to watch in the finals, attended Norwood School Year 7 to 13, currently plays for one of the top Basketball Academies in the country, Myerscough College, which competed in the finals of the Elite Academy Basketball League (EABL). Our students also got the chance to watch the battles between two powerhouses in the Women's Elite Academy Basketball League (WEABL) Finals and the Academy Basketball League (ABL) Finals. This was an invaluable, aspirational trip for our boys and girls. Thank you to all the teachers that enable our students to attend.
Amazing Tournament Monday 28th March.
We held the biggest tournament this year with welcoming 9 schools to Norwood and watching an impressive 11 teams take to court. Our year 7 team battled through 2 and a half hours of gameplay showing off their hard work, dedication and pure skills on the court.
A wonderfully inspiring email from the parent of Mia in Yr 9....
Hello,
Thank you for letting Mia attend the BSL rally last Friday.
Friday April 1st, will be an 'own clothes day'.
We will be asking all students, including Sixth Form, to contribute at least £1 each to raise funds for Unicef and British Red Cross which in turn, will be supporting families displaced and in desperate need of help due to the Ukrainian crisis.
Great message from Ms Howell today - 'Just thought I’d share an amazing success from the year 8 girls yesterday, who powered through a tough 4 teams. Winning 6-0, 3-2 and 5-3 and securing a sold second place with 10 points overall.
These girls have been committed since September, and it was amazing to see all of their hard work go to good use.
Thank you to everyone who has been so kind to donate so much to our Ukraine appeal this week.
Some Netball Success for a lovely Friday. These girls took to court yesterday to play against Trinity, Kingsdale and Woodmansterne. Some superb netball from all and representing Norwood in an amazing manner.
Some of our Bursary students have just done a photography & word workshop celebrating International Women's Day.
Ms Barton has been really doing a wonderful job encouraging our girls to get onto the football pitch and play.
Backed by Let Girls Play ambassadors Abi, 17, and Olivia,15, along with Barclays’ ambassador Kelly Smith MBE, the Let Girls Play campaign will inspire and empower communities and schools to want to help make change, unlocking equal opportunities for girls to participate in the sport.
Only 63 per cent of schools currently offer girls’ football in PE lessons and our ambition, as seen in the women’s and girls’ Inspiring Positive Change strategy, is to have 75 per cent of schools providing equal access to football for girls in PE lessons by 2024.
And the #LetGirlsPlay campaign supports this ambition by encouraging people to stop, listen and see how they can make a difference to this current challenge. The campaign’s website provides inspiring resources to help influence the start of change and allow more girls to feel the mental and physical benefits of exercise through playing football.
Thank you to all our visitors for joining us today at our Open Morning.
