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Friday 10th March, 2023

Easter Holiday Outdoors Arts Workshop

Our next project for this year is “Spring Drama in the Forest”!

Give your child the opportunity to interact with other children, facilitated by a skilled team of workshop leaders and passionate volunteers all within a beautiful and nurturing environment. Your child can express themselves freely, enjoy playing in nature and learn communication and collaborative life skills.

To take advantage of our early bird offer and for more information, visit https://SpringDNF.eventbrite.co.uk

See attached flyer for more info.

Kind regards,

Megan Budd, Arts Administrator

Friday 10th March, 2023

Weekly News 10.03.23

Hello everyone

On behalf of all the staff, thank you again for all your support this week. Please feel free to send in any photos of you enjoying the snow and we’ll create a gallery on our website!

Plans for Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th March 2023 – NEU (National Education Union)

You will be aware that industrial action is being taken by the National Education Union on the 15th and 16th March 2023. At this point, it is unknown what our staffing position will be on those dates and the impact it may have on classes. An update will be provided early next week. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

Our Very Own ‘Outstanding Young Citizen’
You may recall Cerys in Year 5 asking for donations of Christmas shoeboxes for the charity Teams4U, and her huge success in how many she collected and delivered to the charity.
In recognition of her achievements, I nominated Cerys for the High Sheriff of Shropshire’s Outstanding Young Citizenship Award and Cerys and her family were invited to the 2023 presentation ceremony at Telford College on Wednesday evening. It was a real privilege to be there and see the High Sheriff present Cerys with her certificate. Not only did she receive a certificate, she was also presented with an overall award in the junior category which, considering there are only three awards presented, is a huge achievement and very well-deserved.
Well done Cerys – we are very proud of you!
Parent Meetings

Our spring term parent meetings will be held in school on Wednesday 22nd March. The booking system will be on the website next week and we will send out a further message when it is ‘live.’

Have a good weekend.
Mrs Johnson x
Friday 10th March, 2023

Willow Class Home Learning 10.03.23

Here are some ideas for work you can do at home today.  I am sure lots of you will be getting out in the snow, making snowmen, snow angels, snowballs and sledging.  We would love to see snowy day activity photos on Tapestry.
Read Write inc –  
Reception:
If your child has a sound blending book, please practise reading the words – Fred Talk, say the word.
Handwriting – all children in Reception were given a green Set 1 book .  Your child can use this to practise writing out some of the letters, especially the ones in their name.  They can also use a notebook/paper or get a stick and write letters in the snow.
GROUP 1: (Mrs Walker)  – Practise the ‘sh’ sound           Fred Games

GREEN Group (Mrs Allen)  – Practise the sound ‘oy’              Hold a sentence (you will need a paper and pencil)

Year 1: Please check on Tapestry for the sounds your child should be practising

GREEN Group (Mrs Allen)  –      Hold a sentence (you will need a paper and pencil)

ORANGE Group (Mrs Haycocks) Hold a sentence (you will need a paper and pencil)

YELLOW Group (Mrs Law) – Hold a sentence (you will need a paper and pencil)

Read the Book Bag book in your child’s Reading Wallet.

Maths:
Reception – Counting back from 10

Topic –

Famous Explorers – Neil Armstrong lesson

Yoga – Mike and Mutnik on the Moon

Story time books (we would have had a library session today) –
Whatever next

Toys in Space

Have a lovely day and weekend.

Mrs Bowes

Friday 10th March, 2023

Message from Maple Class

Maple class have asked me to share this message with parents.
The way the ‘Give as you Live’ scheme works is you simply sign up to it. You go on to a website via Shrewsbury Ark’s website and it will automatically donate a percentage of your shop purchase to the charity. All you need to do is simply buy as you usually would and a percentage is donated to the charity.
This is linked to the Shrewsbury Ark charity which we are raising money for with our 5000km.
Thank you from Maple Class
Thursday 9th March, 2023

Snow Day Photos

Some photos of the children exploring the snow on Thursday morning for you to enjoy… 

Take care,

Mrs Johnson

Thursday 9th March, 2023

Friday 10th Important Information

Thank you for all your support and understanding today.

After clearing the paths and the car park entrance for the start of the day, the weather and the road conditions deteriorated rapidly once children were in school. Closing the school during the day is never an easy decision to make so your quick response in coming to collect your child/children was very much appreciated.

At this moment in time, the plan is for school and nursery to be open tomorrow. However, I will continue to monitor the weather closely and assess the safety of the site and local roads as early as possible tomorrow morning.

If the decision is taken to close before the start of the day, it will be broadcast on Radio Shropshire and published on Shropshire Council’s website, as well as on the front page of our school website, and on Class Dojo / Tapestry.

Take care,

Mrs Johnson

Thursday 9th March, 2023

Easter Holiday Camps

Passmaster – the company who deliver our after-school football club – are running a holiday club at Mount Pleasant Primary and a football camp at London Road, in the Easter holidays. Please see more information below.
They also run a HAF programme (FREE holiday, food, activity programme, T&Cs apply) alongside their paid-for provision.
Sunday 5th March, 2023

Weekly News 03.03.23

Hi everyone,

We’ve had a very busy first week back and it was wonderful to see children in their outfits / pyjamas for World Book Day. They all seemed to enjoy the visit from a local author – Dunkle Deed.

Well done to all the children who won prizes for their costumes, extreme reading locations or book character wood slices, examples of which you can see in the gallery below.

Thank you to everyone who came along and supported the Scholastic Book Fair; this has helped us raise much-needed commission to spend on books for our school library. The Book Fair will be open again after school on Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th.

Welcome Mr Harris!

We have welcomed Mr Harris to our school this week – our new Rowan teacher – and he has enjoyed getting to know Rowan children and parents.

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal

Thank you again for your donations towards our Turkey-Syria fundraising day. Our JustGiving total stands at £354 which is an amazing effort!

Shropshire Star Cash for Schools

The TOKEN COLLECT stage is now underway, with School tokens appearing in the Shropshire Star every day until Saturday March 25, 2023. 

You can pick up a copy of the Shropshire Star at your local retailer or supermarket.

Reminders

Tuesday 7th March – Vision screening for Reception children. If you do not want your child to take part, you MUST return the letter to opt out.

If you want your Year 5/6 child to take part in the Arthog residential visit (Friday 16th to Sunday 18th June 2023) it can be booked on sQuid. A deposit can be paid now to secure your child’s place.