All we can say is a huge thank you for the overwhelming support from all of you to our Brave Box appeal. Never in our wildest dreams did we expect such a community wide response. This will make such a difference to the lives of children undergoing cancer treatments.

Merry Christmas.

Last night, underneath the secrecy of darkness, Northern had a very special visitor. Not only did he sneak in to our Grotto but he also visited every classroom. At every classroom, he left a special sack of presents. Father Christmas also sent a special message to the Reception children, the Year 1 children and the Year 2 children. The school was most definitely echoing with shrieks of excited children this morning as they watched the footage of Father Christmas sneaking around our dark, deserted school and saw that he had left each of them a present.

The time has come to share our amazing Christmas performances with everyone. Thank you so much to Violet's mum for professionally recording and editing our performances. Our children are most definitely little superstars. We hope you enjoy watching the recordings again and again...

Today our children and staff wore their Christmas Jumpers to support Save the Children and as a Rights Respecting School, this is yet another way our children show how much they care! Many thanks to parents for supporting Northern during this annual event. Please check out your child's class page for pictures!

This week at Northern, the children have been getting into the festive mood by watching the Pantomime Cinderella! This online pantomime has been kindly funded by the PTA and they even gave each child a bag of popcorn each! Thank you from all of the children for this amazingly comical pantomime! 

Last night, Mrs Marr turned off the Christmas tree lights in the school hall, locked up school and set the school alarm before driving home. When Mrs Marr unlocked school this morning she was greeted by an unusual sight - the Christmas tree had completely vanished from the school hall.

When Mrs Marr opened the doors to the Den and stage she was amazed to see an extremely magical sight. There on the stage was the Christmas tree in what can only be described as a North Pole setting complete with a very special looking chair. Could this really be Father Christmas' chair?

The children have all promised to be on their very best behaviour in case Father Christmas is watching to see if he should visit us all at Northern next week. 

Year 1 went on their first ever trip and spent the morning at Gawthorpe Hall learning all about Victorian Christmas time. The best and most special part was when they got to meet Father Christmas himself and he told them all about what toys and presents he used to leave children in Victorian times as well as hearing the children tell him about what they would like this year! The children had a very magical morning and behaved fantastically!