Each class have a supply of Poppies and other British Legion products that the children can purchase this week to support The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. The suggested donations are between 50p and £1.50.

Hi everyone

Please read the following important messages.

Dinner money – REMINDER

All outstanding dinner money must be paid by Thursday 22nd. If you are in credit, any monies will be transferred over to your sQuid account. Please note, a negative balance i.e. monies owing, cannot be transferred over to sQuid as the system does not allow this. Thank you

Parking – polite reminder

We have been contacted by several parents regarding issues on our school car park. We are very fortunate in having such a large car park particularly when the majority of primary schools do not have any parking on site for parents.  Please can all adults driving onto the school car park adhere to the following, especially at the end of the school day:

• Do not block other vehicles in then leave your vehicle unattended.
• Do not park in the bus lane or on the island next to the bus lane.
• Vehicles are not permitted to drive down the side of the school, at the start or end of the school day, as this poses a risk to children and adults walking to and from the Hall. This area is for staff vehicles only.
• When the car park is full, use the Village Hall car park instead.

Message from Meole Brace School for Year 6 parents 

Dear Year 6 parents,

Meole Brace School are holding another ‘Live Zoom Event’ on Thursday 22 October from 4.30 to 5.15pm. Information can be found on our website:  www.meolebrace.com and click on the heading  ‘News and Events’ the ‘Virtual Open Tour’. Parents are asked to email year6admissions@meole.co.uk with any questions and if parents wish to attend an invitation and password to the ‘Zoom Event’ will be given.

Many thanks  – Meole Brace School

Thank you for the fantastic response to sQuid following the registration letters being sent out on Wednesday.

As we said in the registration letter, the system is not going live until Monday 2nd November. This is so that all parents have chance to register and to allow Shire Services to transfer any credits across to parents’ sQuid accounts.

If you have already paid money into your sQuid ‘catering purse’:

• it cannot be used to pay for school dinners before the system goes live on 2nd November – you will still need to send dinner money in as normal
• it cannot be transferred to your sQuid ‘trips and offers purse’
• you need to email sQuid directly from the website/App as we do not have authority to move your funds from one purse to another.

The weekly online form to book clubs will still be used for all clubs bookings until half term. We will let you know in due course how to book clubs for 2nd November onwards.

If you have any questions, please contact Mrs Neal in the school office.

Thanks for your support.

Mrs Johnson

We are sure you are probably aware that there have been a number of cases of COVID-19 in Shropshire schools over the past couple of weeks. This has required children and staff from these schools to self-isolate and remain at home.

Next week we will be sending out a parent factsheet and our Remote Learning Policy. These will explain our expectations, how we will be supporting your child, and what we need you to do, if your child has to self-isolate and learn remotely from home.

In the meantime, we need to know as soon as possible what access your child has to a device at home e.g. laptop or tablet.  Please complete the survey below as soon as possible and no later than Tuesday 6th October.

Devices for remote learning survey

More details on how we will be providing remote education will follow next week.

Please do not be alarmed by this request and worry that we are contacting you because we are expecting something to happen next week. We are just trying to make sure that our famlies and staff are as best prepared as they possibly can be, in the event of us having to send a group of children home to self-isolate or if there is a local lockdown.

Thank you in advance for your support and please stay safe.

Mrs Johnson and staff

Unfortunately the Immunisation Team were unable to get to our school today. Mrs Johnson is very sorry about this, and will be speaking to them regarding the inconvenience and disruption this has caused.

The nursing team have said they will be with us tomorrow, Friday 2nd October, to give the vaccination.

If you haven’t returned your child’s form, and you want them to receive the flu immunisation on Thursday 1st October, please return it tomorrow.

Thank you