Weekly News 31.03.23
Hello everyone,
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us in church this morning. I’m sure you will agree, it was a lovely service and we are so proud of all the children. What a perfect end to the spring term!
Attendance and Punctuality
We have seen a significant rise over the past fortnight in the number of children arriving late and after the gate has closed at 8:45 am. Please make sure your child arrives between 8:35 am and 8:45 am. Children who enter school via the school office, after the gate has closed at 8:45 am, are marked as late.
Even though the gate closes at 8:45 am, teaching staff are in class to support children with their learning from 8:35 am onwards, so the earlier children are in school the more beneficial it is for them.
We celebrate weekly attendance and punctuality every week in our Friday worship.
Last week, Year 5s overall had the highest attendance.
This week, Willow had the best punctuality (least number of lates) and Oak had the highest attendance.
Thank you for your support in making sure your child has good attendance and arrives at school on time.
Diary Dates
Wednesday 19th April – 1st swimming session for Year 3 and Year 4 (letter sent home and offer on sQuid)
Friday 5th May – Coronation party (details to follow)
Tuesday 9th to Friday 12th May – Year 6 SATs
Monday 15th to Friday 26th May – Year 2 SATs ‘window’
We hope you have a lovely Easter and we look forward to hearing all your holiday news when we return on Monday 17th April.
Mrs Johnson and staff x
Easter Fundraising
Thank you for the amazing response to our Easter shop. Mrs Jones’ has been rushed off her feet this week and completely sold out of gifts! Thank you for your donations of gifts and for sending children in with money to spend.
Thank you also to Mrs Bailey for making over 100 Easter cookies for children to buy today. The Easter shop raised a grand total of £350 which will be put towards classroom resources and our coronation party.
Thank you also to FOBS for organising the Easter raffle and to everyone who purcased tickets. Sadly, I did not win anything and I’d had my eye on the Creme eggs and Malteser bunnies! Ticket sales totalled £235 and we are very grateful to FOBS for their hard work and ongoing support.
Parking Reminders
Parking on Bicton Lane
Please do not park on the yellow zig zag lines on Bicton Lane or on/near the pedestrian crossing. This makes crossing the road very dangerous to pedestrians and is a hazard to other vehicle users. We have received several complaints over recent weeks from residents and other vehicle users and we thank you in advance for adhering to this request and keeping the families coming to and from our school safe.
News from Severn Loop
Dear Friends,
The April Loop is attached, which contains (amongst other things) information about our Easter services. There’s even something you can go to tomorrow! I’ve not included that in the Loop because it’s so soon, but here are the details – do feel very welcome to come along.
Easter Coffee Morning
Saturday, 1st April, 10.30am- 12.30pm
By kind invitation of Mr and Mrs R. Spencer Jones
£5 includes refreshments.
Plants, Cakes, Raffle, Bring and Buy etc
In aid of Montford and Shrawardine Churches
If you have surplus garden plants or seedlings do please bring them along. Donations of cakes and items for the “bring and buy” are always welcome.
With love and blessings,
Hannah x
Arthog Reminder
Thank you for the the new bookings this week for our Year 5 / 6 visit to Arthog in June. Please see a reminder of the letter below, which was sent out last half term.
Arthog Parent Letter – January 2023
If you would like your child to attend, and you have not yet done so, we would be grateful if your could book their place on sQuid and pay a deposit. Please note, we need to give Arthog our final numbers by Friday 5th May.
The gallery below gives you just a taste of the Arthog experience!
Rowan Gardening Project
Dear parents and carers,
Rowan Class is planning to build a garden outside our classroom door over the next few months.
Those of you who have been collecting at the end of the day have probably noticed the old tyres by our door. We will turn these into raised beds as soon as we can. The theme for our garden will be reusing and recycling.
Unfortunately, we need help. We have very few things to get the project started. We would love you to check your garages and sheds for things we could really use.
We need pea gravel for drainage.
We need old plywood for putting under the tyres so that we can move them easily.
We need compost for planting up tyres and other planters. If you have any half open bags that you aren’t going to use, please send them our way.
A watering can would be handy if you have an old one we could refresh.
Some plants would be appreciated if you can spare any: bulbs for perennials, small hardy succulents, bamboo, ferns, architectural plants like cordylines or phormiums, strawberries etc. Anything really that the children can use all year round for all sorts of purposes: art, science, English etc. Plants should be relatively easy to look after.
We would appreciate large and interesting containers that you do not want anymore. If you have a bucket full of holes, we’ll take it because we will be able to plant it up.
Finally, if you have unwanted exterior paints that we can use on recycled wood, or on the tyres, we can make use of it.
It will be a fantastic project to get started and something that children can add to in subsequent years but we do need your help to begin.
Thanks in advance.
Best wishes,
Mr Harris.
Easter/Spring HAF programme
There are still spaces available on some of the holiday clubs in the Easter HAF programme (see below for more details.)
HAF SPRING 2023 Flyer_email
HAF Spring 2023 What’s On_web
