Parents’ Evening

Thank you on behalf of all the staff for your support this term and for meeting with your child’s class teacher(s) at parents’ evening this week.

Celebration Assembly

Just a reminder that it is our Celebration Assembly next Friday 31st March and the children are looking forward to sharing with you what they have been learning this term.  We aim to start by 9:25 and the Hall will be open from 8:45.  Please remember not to block Bicton Lane and to use the village hall car park once the school car park is full. We hope you will be able to join us!

Mini Marathon

Next Friday is our much-awaited mini marathon and every child will be completing as many laps of the school field as they can in the time available.  Please can you make sure that your child has their PE kit, including trainers, in school next Friday.

Comic Relief

Thank you for all the donations of cakes and biscuits today for our cake sale which, together with the non-uniform donations, raised over £230.00 for Comic Relief.

Letters home this week

Easter egg colouring competition – whole school

Co-op visit – group of children involved

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Johnson and staff

Co-Op Easter Egg Competition

Your child will come home with a picture of a blank Easter Egg drawing, which the Co Op would like your child to decorate.  Please make sure your child writes their name and class on the back of the drawing.  All entries must be handed into reception by Friday morning, 31st March, at the latest.  The Co Op will present a prize to the best decorated egg in each class the following week.

Parents’ Evenings – No Clubs 

Just a reminder that there are no clubs after school on Tuesday or Thursday next week because of parents’ evenings.

Head lice

We have had several reports of head lice in school this week.  Please could you check your child’s hair this weekend and treat as necessary.  It would also be helpful if long hair could be tied up/plaited etc and please encourage your child not to take their hair down during the day and keep their hair up. I have spoken to several parents this week who are understandably frustrated at having to repeatedly treat their child’s hair because they come home from school with head lice yet again.  Your support with this would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Comic Relief Day

Next Friday 24th March is Comic Relief Day.  Children are invited to come to school wearing something red and pay 50p towards the Comic Relief charity.  We will also be holding a cake sale at break time so any donations or cakes/biscuits would be very welcome. Thank you in advance for your support.

Condover Final Payment

Just a reminder that the final payment for Condover of £35 must be received by Friday 24th March.

Letters out this week

Dodgeball letter – Year 5 children involved

Condover key info and kit list – Year 3/4

Headlice letter – whole school

Have a nice weekend.

Class 4 will be bringing home a new piece of homework today based on our learning in maths over the last few days.  The children will be revising their measuring skills, converting time, and finding the area and perimeter of shapes.

This homework will be due in on Monday 20th March.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

English: We have continued reading our class novel Trash and children have completed several different activities this week including a reading comprehension based on the text.

Maths: Children have used formulae to find the area of triangles and rectangles and have applied this to finding the area of their own compound shapes. Towards the end of the week, we extended this to finding the volume of 3D shapes. Today we started to work through an assessment task completed earlier this week and we discussed how it is important to use an appropriate method/show appropriate workings.

Year 6s should be really proud of their hard work this week in Maths and their willingness to share and discuss their errors with their peers; we were able to talk through common mistakes and misconceptions and children were happy to share mistakes they had made so that everyone could learn from them. Well done Class 5!

History: Children have researched Winston Churchill and created fact files with a partner. Thank you to everyone who has been able to bring in some quite incredible WWII artefacts which children used to create a WWII museum. This work will be continued next week. Our governors had the opportunity to look at some of these artefacts prior to/after our Governing Body meeting this week and they were very impressed at the response to the topic from children and parents.

Well done to all Year 6s for the effort they put into their Blitz homework – it is lovely to see the children enjoying the WWII topic so much!

R.E.: This week, children have created some beautiful writing in R.E. based on our unit of work on Heaven – Our Special Place. We are looking forward to being able to display some of this work in school.

P.E.: Children continued their dodgeball sessions with Mr Bebb today.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Parents’ Evenings – Cancelled Clubs

Just a reminder that the booking system is open on the website for our forthcoming Parents’ Evenings.  Thank you if you have already booked an appointment to speak to your child’s class teacher(s).  There will be no Film Club on Tuesday 21st or any clubs on Thursday 23rd.

Condover  

The final Condover payment is due on Friday 24th March please.  We are in the processing of putting together an overview of the information shared/questions asked at yesterday’s parents’ meeting about Condover and we will send this home early next week together with the kit list.

Diary Dates

As you are hopefully aware, we have a very busy day on Friday 31st March and after Celebration Assembly every class will be taking part in the Mini Marathon on the school site.  Some children have already told us that they have quite a bit of sponsorship, which is fantastic news, and all monies raised will be spent on resources/equipment for the children.

The following day, on Saturday 1st April, we are organising a gardening day at school to really get things moving with the wildlife area (to the rear of the new eco-room.)  If you are able to spare a few hours on that Saturday, you will be warmly welcomed and refreshments will be provided by FOBs.  Details will follow in the next couple of weeks giving you an idea of the jobs that need doing so if you could save the date we would love to see you!

Hope you have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Johnson

There is a new exciting junior parkrun now taking place in the Quarry every Sunday at 9am.  This is in addition to the weekly Saturday, 5km Shrewsbury parkrun.  If your child has already registered for parkrun, they do not need to do so again. Please do check the course details as it starts in a different location to the Saturday event.

What is it?

It is a 2k run for juniors only (4-14 year olds).  Adults can run with their child, but must not go into the finish funnel at the end.

Where is it?

The event takes place at Quarry Park, Victoria Avenue, Shrewsbury, SY1 1XL. See Course page for more details.

What does it cost to join in?

Nothing – it’s free! but please register before your first run. Only ever register with parkrun once. Don’t forget to bring a printed copy of your barcode (request a reminder).

How fast do I have to be?

The aim is to have fun. Please come along and join in whatever your pace!

We’re friendly!

Every week we grab a post parkrun coffee in the Stop Cafe – please come and join us!

http://www.parkrun.org.uk/shrewsbury-juniors/