At Bicton, we recognise that children work incredibly hard during the school day. We believe that time outside school should provide opportunities for family life, rest, play, hobbies, sport, and developing wider interests.

We are excited to announce that Bicton School will be taking over the Junior Parkrun on Sunday 18th October at The Quarry Park!

Dear parents/carers,

Welcome back everyone! And a special welcome to our 12 new Reception children who have done their first 2 days at school this week! They have settled well into the school routines and the new Year 1s have thoroughly enjoyed showing them how things are done in Willow Class. We are very proud of all of you.

The older children have also transitioned brilliantly back into school life and it has been lovely to see them all again and hear about their summer holidays. We are looking forward to a year of opportunity, fun, growth and learning and we are so grateful we have the support of our amazing parent community here at Bicton.

We have had some technology-related teething issues at the start of this term and there have been issues with our lunch payment system.  If you have added money to your child’s dinner account and you are being notified that you have a negative balance, please ignore this.  Mrs Neal is working hard to resolve this with the IT team.  Please ensure you have added money to your account to pay for lunches if your child is in Nursery or Years 3-6 and you are not in receipt of Free School Meals.

The first whole school event this term is our Harvest service on Wednesday 7th October 9.30am at Bicton Church.  The children will be singing some songs and Reverend Hannah will be leading a sermon and it would be wonderful to see lots of parents/carers there to support.  We welcome any donations of non-perishable food or toiletry items to the School Office for a donation to the Shrewsbury Food Hub.

Please read the items in this newsletter for important dates for your diary and upcoming events.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Mavin

Wednesday 7th October 9.30am- Harvest Service at Bicton Church

Wednesday 14th/Thursday 15th October 2pm onwards – Parent Consultation Meetings (details to follow)

Sunday 18th October 9am – Bicton Junior Parkrun Takeover

Thursday 22nd October 2.30pm – Reception – Year 6 Dance Performances in the School Hall

Thursday 22nd October – after school until 5.30pm – FOBS Spooky Disco

Monday 2nd November – PD Day (children not in school)

Saturday 21st November 5-7pm – FOBS Quiz Night

Thursday 3rd December – after school until 5.30pm – FOBS Film Night

Tuesday 15th December 6.30pm – KS2 Christmas Performance in the School Hall (details to follow)

Wednesday 16th December 9.30am – Reception – Year 2 Nativity at Bicton Church

Thursday 17th December – after school until 5.30pm – FOBs Christmas Disco

Friday 18th December – Last day of term

We are very excited to welcome all of the children back to school and nursery on Thursday 3rd September.  The gate will open at 8.35am and will close at 8.45am.  Breakfast club opens at 7.45am and children will be taken to their classes at 8.35am.

If your child has PE on Thursdays, please send them in school uniform for this Thursday only.  PE lessons will start from Friday 4th September.

You should now be connected to your child’s new class on Class Dojo, and if you are not, teachers will send connection instructions out by the end of the first week to ensure you can keep up to date with news and notices.

Have a lovely bank holiday,

Mrs Mavin

We are so grateful to our amazing FOBs for all of the hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into the fundraising this year!  We are now at over £8,500! Wow!!