Head of School Message
Dear parents/carers,
Despite the dreary weather outside, there has been plenty of hard work, enthusiasm, and great learning happening throughout the school this week. Classrooms have been full of energy, and pupils continue to impress us with their resilience, motivation and positivity.
We are currently planning a number of trips for different year groups, and the children are already buzzing with excitement—especially with Arthog just around the corner next week! A huge thank you to all our Year 4 parents who attended the Liverpool residential meeting; your support and engagement are greatly appreciated.
Next week promises to be a busy and enjoyable one, with the Arthog visit, a KS1 sports competition, and the start of our iRock sessions. There’s lots to look forward to for everyone.
Wishing you all a lovely and restful weekend.
Mrs Mavin
Wednesday 4th February – Friday 6th February – Year 6 Trip to Arthog
Thursday 5th February – Group of KS1 pupils to Benchball at Crowmoor
Friday 6th February – First iRock Band sessions
Friday 6th February – Deadline for entry into Shropshire Primary Schools’ Half Marathon
Thursday 12th February – Oak Class trip to Adcote School to meet children’s author MG Leonard! (please see Class Dojo for permission link)
Wednesday 25th February – Year 5 trip to the Corbet School for Languages Day
Thursday 12th March until 5.30pm – Parent Consultation Meetings. Booking details will be released in the next few weeks.
Thursday 19th March – Willow trip to Field Studies Council (details to follow)
FOBs News!
FOBS News
We’re delighted to announce that FOBS is hosting a Valentine’s Day Disco on 12th February, immediately afterschool.
Tickets are £5 per child and will go toward our fundraising goal of building a trim trail, climbing wall and improving the early years play area. Tickets can be purchased at Reception, cut off date for tickets is Friday, 6th February.
Sandwiches, veggies, crisps, biscuits and squash will be provided by FOBS. Games, cakes and popcorn will be 50p each, but of course, dancing and having fun will be FREE!
We hope you’ll join us for this event and the many more to come this year. And of course, if you’d like to get involved by volunteering, donating or sponsoring, please do! Our next meeting is at the Grapes at 8pm on 10th February. We’d love to hear your ideas!
Lastly, a special shoutout to Florence Atherton and her dad Chris for designing the amazing Valentine’s Day Disco poster!
Vision in Action
Florence in Year 2 has recently completed her 400m swimming badge (40 lengths of the pool!) What an outstanding achievement Florence! We are all very proud of you.
Ready, Steady, Prep!
Willow Class have been busy practising their food preparation skills in this week’s Design and Technology lesson. The children carefully used forks to steady their food, practised cutting soft items with table knives and had a go at juicing fruit. They followed instructions really well and are growing in growing confidence. They will use these skills later on in the term, when they make a healthy smoothie!
Half Term Event – Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre
Dinosaur Discoveries Feb Half Term
Willow class gymnastics
Willow class have been enjoying the gymnastics unit this half term in PE. This week, they used the wall mounted climbing frame to practise their climbing and balancing skills.
Prompt collection
We would like to thank you for your continued support of our after school clubs.
To ensure the clubs can continue to run safely and sustainably, we are writing to let you know that from after the half‑term break, a charge will be applied for late collection (4.30pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 5.30pm on Wednesdays).
Unfortunately, late pick‑ups have a significant impact on staffing arrangements and result in additional staffing costs for the school. Introducing a late collection charge will help us manage these costs fairly and ensure staff are appropriately supported.
Further details regarding the charge and how it will be applied will be shared shortly.
We appreciate your understanding and cooperation in collecting children promptly at the end of each session. As always, if there are exceptional circumstances, please inform the school as soon as possible.
Award winners!
Congratulations to this week’s value award winners!
Max- for persevering and making good progress with his handwriting.
Iniya- for showing kindness and joy.
Koji- for working hard in maths and English.
Armands- for showing perseverance when working on tasks.
Wilfred- for improvment in behaviour and handwriting.
Amber- for perseverance with football at lunchtime.
Congratulations to our House Dojo Champion this week ……….Owen!
And to our Dojo Champions from each class – well done all of you!