Updates

Friday 28th November, 2025

Award winners!

Congratulations to this week’s award winners!

Orla- settling in beautifully in her new school.

Mishal- for always being kind to his friends.

George- For really hard work and the kindness he shows his friends.

Pippin- For always bringing joy to those around her.

Oscar- For his incredible ideas in English.

Oliver- Determination at break time football.

Congratulations to our House Dojo Champion this week ……….Owen!

And to our Dojo Champions from each class – well done all of you!

Friday 28th November, 2025

Head of School Message

Dear parents/carers,

As November draws to a close, we wanted to share some exciting updates and reminders:

🌍 Travel Tracking Has Restarted!
Miss Robinson from Living Streets came to relaunch our active travel tracking initiative this week.  I know our school isn’t best placed for walking to but it’s been great to see lots of children tracking their ‘park and stride’ journeys from the village hall. They are working hard towards earning their badges and we thank you for your support in this.

🎄 Christmas Events Are Coming!
We have lots of lovely festive activities planned throughout December. Please see the list below to make sure you have everything in your diaries!

  • Saturday 29th November 2-5pm – Christmas Fayre at Bicton Village Hall
  • Wednesday 10th December 9.15am – KS1 Nativity at Bicton Church
  • Wednesday 10th December – Whole school visit to Theatre Severn Pantomime
  • Thursday 11th December – School Choir and Handbells Club visit The Coppice
  • Friday 12th December – Father Christmas visit to school (payment via BACs or Paypal to FOBs)
  • Monday 15th/Tuesday 16th December 2pm – School Choir and Handbells Club visit Uplands Nursing Home and Isle Court Nursing Home
  • Wednesday 17th December 6.30pm – KS2 Christmas Carol concert at Bicton Church
  • Thursday 18th December – Christmas Dinner and Christmas Jumper Day! We also have the FOBs Christmas Party from 3.30pm – 4.45pm.  Please see the FOBs post for further details!

✅ Helpful Reminders:

  • Please ensure your child brings a water bottle and a coat each day, especially as the weather turns colder.
  • The school gate closes promptly at 8:45 pm — thank you for helping us start the day smoothly.
  • After school clubs finish  at 4.30pm (5.30pm on Wednesdays). Thank you for being on time for prompt collection.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Mavin

Friday 28th November, 2025

New heights for Isaac!

Isaac has achieved level 1 rock climbing award this Friday and has really enjoying learning how to tie a rope and fasten it for safety, complete routes on the indoor climbing wall and started to learn how to belay another climber on the tall walls and make sure the other climber is safe and secure. 

Well done Isaac!

Friday 28th November, 2025

Experience Church

Year 5 and 6 were invited to spend the morning at Bicton Church on Thursday by Reverend Hannah and her team of volunteers! The children had a thoroughly interesting and enjoyable morning looking at different aspects of a Church building and how they are used in Worship. A huge thank you to all of the volunteers for giving the children such a warm welcome.

Friday 28th November, 2025

FOBs News!

Hello, Bicton School community!  I hope you all survived the cold weather last week and are gearing up for the festive season!

We have a big job to undertake and need your help!  There are various outdoor areas at the school that need repairing and upgrading, including the trim trail (bet you didn’t even know there was one!), climbing wall (you might not have known about that either!) and the early years play area.  Everything that FOBS is doing for Christmas and throughout the year will be to reach our goal of raising enough money to fix these areas, some of which, like the trim trail and climbing wall, are in such disrepair that they are unusable.

But here’s the thing, it’s a hefty goal.  We need £30,000 for the repairs and upgrades, and we can’t do it without you.  Although we have lots of little events, they don’t raise anywhere near enough to even touch that goal.

So, here’s what you can do:

  1. Give generously to the events that FOBS runs and consider joining.
  2. Ask your company or your friend or supermarket or neighbour (or Father Christmas) to make a donation to our fundraising goal.
  3. Let us know your ideas for raising money.

And some dates for your diary:

29 November (this Saturday) – Christmas Fayre at Bicton Village Hall – 2-5pm (see here)

  • FOBS will have a table so please come to support and shop!

12 December – Father Christmas visits Bicton School (during school hours) (see here)

  • Each child will receive a gift from Father Christmas but we need your donations to cover the cost of the gifts and a bit extra (if you can) to put toward our fundraising goal, so please give generously!

18 December – Christmas Party for the kids – immediately after school to 4:45pm (see here)

  • Tickets are £4 per child and we will need donations of cakes, cookies, etc for the kids (again, this is so we can try to put as much of the ticket price toward our fundraising goal as possible.

Lastly, to whet your appetite for working with us to reach our goal, a picture of the proposed new trim trail:

Friday 28th November, 2025

Science in Maple

Maple Class have been studying States of Matter in Science.  On Thursday 27th November, the class were learning about gases.  After using carbon dioxide to extinguish a flame, the class observed what happens when a raisin is dropped into lemonade.

 

 

Monday 24th November, 2025

Winter HAF (Holiday Activities and Food) Programme

Children who are in receipt of free school meals can book free sessions onto this programme.  Your unique code to do this will be given to your child. As well as free places at clubs for HAF eligible children and young people, many of the HAF programmes also include paid places for children and young people who are not eligible for HAF. These are generally heavily subsidised and have been highlighted in the What’s On Guide. Please follow the link for more information:-

http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/HAF

Friday 21st November, 2025

Head of School Message

Dear parents/carers,

We have had a busy week in school with the children completing their assessments in reading, writing and maths.  They have all worked very hard and we are so proud of them!

There are a number of diary dates below for your attention.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Mavin

Dates for your diaries:

Saturday 29th November 2-5pm – Christmas Fayre at Bicton Village Hall

Wednesday 10th December 9.15am – KS1 Nativity at Bicton Church

Wednesday 10th December – Whole school visit to Theatre Severn Pantomime

Friday 12th December – Father Christmas visit to school (payment via BACs or Paypal to FOBs)

Monday 15th/Tuesday 16th December 2pm – School Choir and Handbells Club visit Uplands Nursing Home and Isle Court Nursing Home

Wednesday 17th December 6.30pm – KS2 Christmas Carol concert at Bicton Church

Thursday 18th December 3.30pm – 4.45pm – Christmas Party (details to follow)

Friday 21st November, 2025

FOBs News

Thanks to everyone who attended our AGM meeting this week. If you still want to be involved, we would happily welcome you to our group and add you to our WhatsApp community as well as future meetings. Remember, that we all bring something different to the table but any skills and abilities would be welcome in helping our fundraising efforts for the school and the children. We have all agreed that our main aim is for the children to have fun! If you want to join in, please let the admin staff know at school reception and they will be able to pass on your name and mobile number. We will then be in touch.
We have the Christmas Fayre at Bicton village hall on 29th November (see here ). We would like to run a game but need your help please? We know our children (and adults!) have a lovely sense of humour and we would like to run a joke machine. If you have any jokes that you would like to share, you can add them to our Facebook page or you can post them in our new letterbox which will be placed just inside school reception. All jokes must be suitable for all ages please.
We are also very excited that Father Christmas is going to visit us at Bicton School on 12th December in the morning (see here). All children will be welcome to visit him (if they want to), including nursery children who attend that day. Unfortunately, we need to ask for donations to run this event and this will ensure that we are able to continue to run it for future years also. Donations would be welcome via BACS or QR code. We will share the PayPal QR code separately on our Facebook page if you have difficulty scanning from the posters.
We are also hoping to run a Christmas party on 18th December so there is another date for your diaries! We will share more information about this soon.
Toilet rolls tubes are also still needed for crafts for our Christmas party so if you have any you can give to us, it would again be appreciated. Please drop them into reception if you are able to.
Here is a link to our Facebook page:
It is called Friends of Bicton School and Nursery
Thanks from all in FOBS.