Creation to Crib Advent
Rev Becky and the team at the local churches have produced an advent activity for all local families. Please watch the clip to find out more. The Creation to Crib packs are available form the school office. Our children are excited to hang a tag on their tree every day in December and find out more about Creation to Crib.
We send huge thanks to the team of volunteers who have designed, crafted and made the packs for all local children to enjoy this Christmas period, we are very appreciative of your time and efforts.
Good luck to those aiming to name all the local places in the competition.
Watch here to find out more
Illness in school
As you may be aware, we’ve had a large number of illnesses in school this week with many pupils off school with similar illnesses. Staff have also been affected.
Illnesses seen in school:
- coughs
- cold like symptoms
- some with nausea (must be off for 48 hrs as per national guidance)
- sore throats
- shivers and temperatures
Remember to call school before 9.30am to report an absence every day that your child is absent.
We hope to be coming to the end of this run of illness and wish everyone a speedy recovery ready for next week.
Shrewsbury Ark
We will be collecting for Shrewsbury Ark homeless charity during our Christmas performances again this year. If you are able to donate, please bring cash with you to the Nativity performances and the Church Service, we cannot accept card donations.
Further information about this charity can be found on their website.
Thank you in advance for supporting this charity.
Jewellery and uniform
A polite reminder that full school uniform is expected daily.
- Boots are not part of school uniform and are not permitted, shoes only please. Wellies/boots can be worn on the way to/from school and school shoes brought to change into if needed.
- Trainers are only permitted for PE or exercise and should not be worn as a school shoe.
- Leggings are not school uniform. School trousers/shorts, pinafores or skirts only please.
Jewellery:
- Earrings – only small studs are permitted, no hoops or dangling ones please.
- Children must be able to take our their earrings for PE themselves. Recent guidance about the use of cover tape states that earrings should not be taped for 2 reasons; firstly taping can be an infection risk and secondly there is a risk of the back of the earring causing bone damage in a collision. This risk has been identified by Sport England, due to national health and safety incident analysis.
- Watches may be worn, any watches with interactive features or games such as apple watch connectivity, should be disabled whist in school.
- Necklaces, bracelets or other jewellery is not permitted.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Mrs Lyall.
Celebrating Success. Book Worm 29.11.24
Well done to everyone who received awards or shoutouts this week, we are very proud of you.
Today we celebrated reading in our celebration assembly, with praise for lots of children for their reading at home and reading throughout the curriculum in school.
- Class R – Alice
- Class 1 – Thomas
- Class 2 – Betsy
- Class 3 – Oliver
- Class 4 – Ella
- Class 5 – Millie N
- Class 6 – Ethan
Congratulations to all our chosen Book Worms, your reading at home and school was excellent this week.
Remember to keep up those good reading habits.
Celebrating Success. Certificate of Achievement 29.11.24
Well done to everyone who received awards or shout outs today. We are very proud of you.
- Class R – Emmie, for being a superstar! Always ready to learn and an outstanding role model to others.
- Class 1 – Arlo, for always having a fantastic attitude to learning and always being respectful and ready to learn.
- Class 2 – Rupert, for always trying his best and being determined to succeed.
- Class 3 – George, for fantastic improvement in his writing.
- Class 4 – Willow, for her hardworking, thoughtful and positive attitude to her work.
- Class 5 – Harrison H, for his positive attitude this week and for trying really hard – amazing, keep it up!
- Class 6 – Hettie, for her outstanding effort, can-do attitude and for being helpful and supportive around school.
- KS1 Headteachers award – Alice in class R, for showcasing our school values both inside and outside the classroom.
- KS2 Headteachers award – Harry T in class 3, for showcasing our school values, being kind and helpful and always truing his best.
- Raffle ticket – Isabelle S in class 3.
- Lunchtime award – Isaac in class R for lovely manners.
Weekly House Points 29.11.24
Weekly house point totals are:
Owls = 141
Badgers = 170
Squirrels = 204
Foxes = 200
Well done to the Squirrels team this week.
School Experiences
As a Trust and as individual schools, we are hoping to put together some information about the 10 top experiences we hope children to encounter before they leave school. For example, sitting around a camp fire, performing to an audience, going to the theatre or art gallery, learning a musical instrument, visiting a contrasting location, taking a risk etc. The list is endless, but we aim to pin point the experiences to phases in education and would like families and children to participate in this.
I’ve attached a short survey below (only 3 questions!) and would really welcome your feedback about what quality experiences you would hope that your child could encounter before they leave school. These experiences are additional to our curriculum offer, but run alongside it. For example we believe it is important to take our children our of our rural location to experience a big city so we take our Y5&6 pupils to London, that links to their learning about monarchy in addition to fulfilling many memorable experiences.
Thank you in advance for your contribution.
Click here to provide your feedback
Christmas events
Our super PTA have a number of events coming up, please save the dates below:
- Friday 6th December – Christmas social event for parents – please come along to chat and wrap and enjoy mice pies from 1.30 in the learning room. The PTA would like help with wrapping gifts for the Santa Shop. This event will end at 3pm in time for DEAR.
- Thursday 12th December – this is our Christmas jumper day, please can families bring a donation for the PTA Christmas hampers.
- Friday 13th December – Santa Shop, for one day only! Children bring in pocket money (details to follow) to purchase a gift for a family member to give at Christmas.
- Thursday 19th December – Hampers will be at the church at 2pm. The raffle to win the hampers will be drawn at the end of the service.
- Friday 20th December – party day – children will all receive a Christmas gift courtesy of our PTA elves!
Additional school Christmas events:
- Monday 2nd December – Whole school Advent launched, church volunteers and Rev Becky have provided handmade Advent windows for children with key messages for each day. Packs available to collect from the school hall.
- Thursday 12th December – Christmas jumper day, non-uniform and something christmassy, please don’t feel obliged to purchase a Christmas jumper.
- Thursday 12th December – Christmas lunch
- Monday 16th December – EY/KS1 Nativity 2pm (tickets will be sent out)
- Tuesday 17th December – EY/KS1 Nativity 2pm (tickets will be sent out)
- Wednesday 18th December – Whole school Panto at Telford ICC. Goldilocks and the Three Bears. 1.30 start, more details to follow about the late collection time, expected to be approx 4.45pm.
- Thursday 19th December – Church service 2pm, St Luke’s.
- Friday 20th December – Party day – non-uniform with sensible shoes.
- Friday 20th December – 9.30 am Rock Steady Christmas concert.
Tag Rugby Winners
Huge congratulations to our Tag Rugby teams who received high praise for their sportsmanship and their respect for the game in the competition yesterday. We entered a Y5 team and a Y6 team this year and they both did really well. Unfortunately as a competition goes, they eventually had to play each other, and the Y6 team knocked out the Y5 team. The Y6 team then went on to win overall, they won every match played. We celebrated this in our Friday achievement assembly today and all received an applause. All children will also receive a certificate.
Safer Schools Meeting rescheduled
The safer schools meeting planned for Wednesday 4th December has been postponed and will be rescheduled for the Spring term. We will inform you of the new date over the coming weeks.