As part of Road Safety Week, Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) John Campion is proud to be launching his mini police officer poster competition.

Through his Safer West Mercia Plan, the PCC is committed to reducing harm on our roads and wants to ensure children get to school safely.

As such, the PCC is launching a poster designing competition to understand what road safety looks like to young people and is asking young people to demonstrate “how I get to school safely”.

Winning schools will get a “mini police officer” sign that can be placed outside to remind road users to “Slow down” or “Think before you park”.

We would LOVE to win a “mini police officer” sign for our school and we encourage children to take part.  If your child wants to enter the competition, they can collect an entry form from the school office. We may also have time before the end of term to design some posters in school.

Please return all entries to the school office by Monday 18th December so that we can scan and email them to the organisers before the Friday 22^nd December deadline.

Thank you for the donations for wearing non-uniform on Friday and for the cake sale. We raised a grand total of £269.50, including £36 paid via our JustGiving page, which is an amazing effort. Well done everyone!

Please do not block in other vehicles at the end of the school day, including staff cars, as this prevents people getting out of their parking space and can make them late getting to their next destination. Thank you

Shropshire Council are currently reviewing several SEND services and are engaging with the SEND community to gauge their views.

They have launched a survey to seek the views of SEND families as well as practitioners and organisations that support their SEND community, on the Information Advice and Support Service (IASS) offered to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

The survey closes on Wednesday 6 December.

You can find out more, access the survey link, and get involved here:

Views sought on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) the Information Advice and Support Service (IASS) – Shropshire Council Newsroom

Feedback from local communities will help support their work in developing this service for the future

If you have any enquiries with regards to the service updates detailed below please email them to:

For the IASS and shortbreaks: SENDshortbreaks@shropshire.gov.uk

For school transport: special.transport.team@shropshire.gov.uk

For Youth Support: youthworks@shropshire.gov.uk

Hello all,

Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a good half term. The children seem to have settled back into school well this week and have enjoyed sharing their news from half term. It sounds as though lots of parents had a very busy week!

In celebration of World Kindness Day on Monday next week, some of the older children will be painting ‘kindness rocks’ next week which will be placed at the new housing development on Welshpool Road.

Please can we ask that, if you phone school and there is no answer, you leave a message on the school answerphone. There is not always somebody available to answer the phone but they will respond to any messages left as soon as they can. Thank you.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Johnson x