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  • Neurodiversity Celebration Week

    Published 21/03/26

    During Neurodiversity Celebration Week, the children learnt about how and why we are all different and unique, and how these differences make each and every one of us special in our own way. As a school, we explored the idea that everyone’s brain is different, and that no two people think, learn, or experience the world in exactly the same way.
    Our special slogan for the week was: “Be confident, be you, be the star that you are” — a message that we believe should be embraced every day!

    During assembly, we explored the meaning of neurodiversity and discussed why it is so important to celebrate it. The children also learned about different types of neurodiversity through a range of engaging videos, and discovered some well-known individuals who are neurodivergent.
    Throughout the week, the children took part in a variety of fun and meaningful activities to mark this special week. 

    In our achievement assembly, many children were recognised with Hazelwood Values Awards for supporting their peers and demonstrating respect, kindness, and fairness. We were also proud to celebrate children who showed a strong understanding of empathy and consistently demonstrated this within our school community.

    By marking this important week, we hope that all of the children have developed a deeper understanding of the importance of celebrating each other’s differences, strengths, and challenges.

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  • World Book Day

    Published 07/03/26

    World Book Day was celebrated once again with a feast of literary characters throughout Hazelwood. Children dressed up as so many different characters and talked about their favourite books. This year, we joined thousands of children around the country in a live draw along and story telling workshop provided by Scholastic.
    This included: 
    - The Flower Thief book
    - Dog man and The boy with big decisions
    - Solve a mystery at the Ivy Hotel with Emily Hourican!
    - How Books are Made: How your favourite stories reach your shelves

    Additionally, the children took part in a book hunt and had a teacher swap where a different teacher from the school came to read them their favourite story. 

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  • Community Iftar ​​​​​​​

    Published 07/03/26

    On Tuesday 3rd March, we hosted our second Community Iftar, celebrating the holy month of Ramadan as a school community. Once again, we were overwhelmed by the number of parents, carers, staff and children who attended as well as the amount of food brought and shared amongst our guests.
    An Iftar is where Muslims come together to break their fast every day during the holy month of Ramadan. 
    It was lovely to see so many families, both Muslim and non-Muslim recite and listen to prayers and join together to eat traditional foods in a fabulous display of our community spirit. 
    Huge thank you must go to our wonderful HPSA organisers: Alia, Karima, Anna, Sara and Eva. It was such a special evening. 

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  • Young Voices 2026

    Published 12/02/26

    Young Voices 2026!
    Last week, 71 children from the Hazelwood Choir took the trip to Wembley Arena to be part of the largest children’s choir in the world – Young Voices!
    They had an amazing time singing, dancing and performing with 5000 other children to a huge crowd, including their parents and carers.
    Songs ranged from a Wicked medley to No such thing as normal, from a Sea Shanty medley to the Young Voices classic: Power in me. Adding to that some fantastic dances by Urban Strides and a huge disco medley finale, everyone ended up on their feet!
    Huge thank you to Miss Bispham for organising this wonderful experience for the children, Mrs Pearson and Miss Harris who supported with this and the parent volunteers who accompanied and seemed to really enjoy themselves too!
    The children will undoubtedly remember this for a very long time!  

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  • Hazelwood Panto!

    Published 19/12/25

    PANTO - CINDERELLA: THE SHOE MUST GO ON
    Our wonderful HPSA Daisies performed their amazing pantomime not once, not twice, not three times, but four times on Wednesday to a packed out hall of children and then adults in the evening - OH YES THEY DID! ! Lots of singing, dancing, acting, dames, wicked stepmother, mice, fairies and even some K-pop demon hunters appeared throughout the show to entertain the watching audience. Huge thank you must go to all of the amazing cast and crew for their time, dedication, energy and amazing acting skills! We can't wait for next year already!!

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  • Year 1 Nativity

    Published 19/12/25

    On Wednesday last week, Year 1 performed their Nativity: Lights, Camel, Action! to their parents/carers. And they were absolutely phenomenal or should I say "fab-u-lous darlings"! The children sang, danced and acted so brilliantly and all of the characters with their wonderful costumes made it a show to remember. Huge thank you to all of the adults for supporting the children: Mrs Naik, Mrs Arnold, Mrs Woolley, Ms Patel, Miss Harris, Mrs Moore, Mr Jack and Mrs Touli for all their hard work. And, of course, the directors of the show, Miss Michel and Miss Plastiras.

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  • multicultural week

    Published 24/10/25

    We had so much to fit in to Multicultural week this year, that we had to make it longer than a week and start last Thursday. That just increased the enjoyment and engagement level of our children who were able to learn so much information about different cultures and traditions. 

    To celebrate how we are one big family at Hazelwood made up of many different cultures, nationalities and identities, every child contributed to this exciting week of learning, by asking lots of questions, finding out lots of information and really showing our value of appreciation and understanding. Our overarching message this week is that "All are Welcome" at Hazelwood and we are proud to say that "We’re part of a community. Our strength is our diversity". What a special way to finish the first half term of this academic year. 

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  • HPSA Day Rave!

    Published 28/09/25

    On Saturday 27th September, HPSA held its first ever day rave! The school playground and Maple hall were transformed into a party resort for so many of our families that came together to boogie and have lots of fun! Huge thank you to the HPSA committee for coming up with yet another fun and ingenious way to bring our community together and raise money towards special projects within the school! 

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  • CBBC Operation Ouch Comes to Hazelwood ​​​​​​​

    Published 24/09/25

    We were super excited to welcome the film crew from CBBCs Operation Ouch to the school playground on 24th September. 8 lucky children from Year 6 were able to ask Dr Xand questions all about health and biology. We can't wait to see the final recording when it comes out on CBBC in the Spring.  

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  • Year 6 PGL & Activity Days

    Published 23/09/25

    PGL

    This week some very tired Year 6 children arrived back to school following their fantastic trip to PGL, Caythorpe Court. The children had a fabulous time, taking part in lots of different activities: raft-building, climbing, zip lining, archery, orienteering, trapeze, problem-solving and laser tag, just to name a few! If that wasn’t quite enough, they also enjoyed fun activities in the evening too: balloon splash, campfire and a wonderful disco where they showed off their dance moves! Despite the forecast, they managed to dodge the worst of the weather and even caught a glimpse of some lovely sunshine! Throughout the weekend, lots of sweets were eaten and not much sleep was had (and that's just the teachers!) but all the children certainly made some wonderful memories and demonstrated our school values of courage, ambition and teamwork throughout the trip – we couldn’t be prouder of all their achievements!

    For lots of photos, please click here: Year 6 PGL

     

    Activity Days

    Whilst some children were away, other Year 6 children also enjoyed two jam-packed days of fun more locally, as part of our Activity Days. On Friday, they enjoyed a day together at Jungle Falls Adventure Golf at Trent Park with lots of very high scores and some very competitive teams! They had a blast in the glorious sunshine - how very lucky they were! On Monday, the children then visited Hollywood Bowl for even more competitive fun – there are certainly some excellent bowlers amongst them with some even making it onto the leaderboard! Whilst they were there, they also enjoyed some delicious food too! Everyone had such a brilliant time it was so nice to see the children have fun together and even make some new friends across classes. All of the children certainly demonstrated lots of our school values, especially respect towards members of the public when travelling by bus. Well done Children!

    For lots of photos, please click here: Year 6 Activity Days

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  • Year 6 Production - The JUngle Book

    Published 21/07/25

    The Year 6 production of ‘The Jungle Book’ was simply phenomenal. The children performed incredibly well, having learnt their lines, the songs and the dance moves over the past few weeks. Whilst they might have been performing as a bunch of animals, they most definitely were not when it came to their preparation and motivation! Every single member of the cast put in a performance to remember! Not forgetting the technicians, who worked tirelessly to ensure that the props, music, lighting and staging was always on point! I have to say that a few tears were shed seeing all of Year 6 up on the stage showing how together they are, and have always been!
    Huge thank you to all of the adults, both staff and parents who helped to make the show so special - we are very grateful! 

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  • Scorching Summer Fete

    Published 19/06/25

    Our fabulous HPSA Summer Fete took place on Friday 13th June and it was a truly fantastic event   filled with fun and laughter, rides, the choir, tombolas, plenty of games, sponging of teachers, a bouncy castle, lots of food and incredibly DJs!  
    I am delighted to announce that the fete made an incredible £6000 which will go to our exciting kitchen project!
    Huge thanks to our wonderful Anna, Eva and Sara and our wonderful HPSA team for their amazing organisation and teamwork to make the fete such a success! You are amazing!! 

    And thank you to all of the children, parents and carers who supported with running stalls and spending lots of money!!

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