FOBCS are creating a 2026 calendar.

This will feature each class and some other photos of children around school. For this, we will be using the permission given when your child was registered.

If, for this specific activity, you wish to give a different permission (i.e. that you do consent when previously you would not OR that you don’t consent when previous you would), then please let us know as soon as possible.

This half term’s clubs will be commencing in the second week of term (i.e. week commencing 10th November). All clubs (except Create Club) will be running for 6 weeks until the end of term. Create Club will not be running on the last week of term.

Here is what is available for this upcoming half term: Afterschool Clubs – Aut (2) 25

Clubs are now live on Parent Pay.

FOBCS Christmas Club will be arranged slightly differently – and won’t be on ParentPay – as the money raised from this, will go towards the FOBCS fund. More information on this will follow shortly.

As usual, we will be “selling” poppies (as well as, this year, some additional RBL merchandise) for a small donation.

If children would like to purchase a poppy (or other item) to help support the Royal British Legion’s Poppy appeal, then they can bring some cash into school. Our heads of school council will be coming around at break and lunch with these.

As always, we will be observing a 2-minute silence in school on Rememberance Day itself.

Also, please look out for Scorpions’ and Bees’ art display that will be going on display outside church by the Derrington/Station-road junction some time next week.

A quick reminder, as shared at the start of term (https://browncleeschool.org.uk/term-dates-25-26/), next Monday is a PD day and children will be starting back at school on Tuesday.

This upcoming half term, we will be soon sharing some date for the following events/activities:

• Christmas dinner day
• Nativity performances
• Pupil feedback sessions for parents
• Christmas Service (at church)
• FOBCS Christma Carols and Stalls event
• Christmas concert (Choir)

If anyone has any used empty plastic bottles (transparent/coloured), could these please be sent into school.

These will be used as part of an eco-greenhouse and a Remembrance Day art project – so as many of these as possible would be really appreciated.

Please see below regarding a vacant parent governor position:

Governor Election – Oct 25

If you wish to nominate yourself, or another parent, please fill in the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/c5Y0npeWWn

Please note that the deadline for nominations is Wednesday 15th October.

Reverend Joe will be hosting our annual Harvest Festival Service at St. John the Baptist Church, Ditton Priors on Thursday 9th October at 2:00pm.

All parents, carers, grandparents etc. are invited to join the service – which will involve some readings, songs and prayers.

If you wish to provide your views on clubs being held at Brown Clee during the school holidays, please fill in the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/MR0J9xNFsG

As mentioned before the summer, we have a competition in school (ran by Shropshire Homes) – where children will need to design a bedroom around the theme of a book or story. This can again be done in groups or individually. If children wish to enter this competition, they will need to complete these at home and bring their entry into school. The deadline for this is the 1st October. This has been discussed with children in school.

Children will need to complete the following floor plan (COMPETITION ROOM LAYOUT) – paper copies of these can be collected from school – and create a mood board.

A mood board will include colour schemes and ideas around their theme of their chosen book/story – and could include drawings, images and quotes. Children can be as creative as they wish with this! The mood boards can be completed as drawings, digitally, physical collages or even a photo take of objects arranged to create the mood board.

Examples of mood boards can be seen below:

How this may look around a book could be as below:

The winner designer(s) of the room design and mood board will get a £50 Waterstones voucher – and their bedroom design will be recreated in one of the show homes at the nearby developments.

From next week (Friday 26th September), our celebration assemblies are open to all (parents, carers, grandparents etc.).

The door will be open when the gates have closed for children at 08:45. Assembly begins around 08:55 and will finish around 09:30.

During this assembly, we give out any certificates gained from home learning activities (Times Tables Rockstars, Spelling Shed and Numbots) – as well certificates for any children who have demonstrated any of our school values (Respect, Thankfulness, Perseverance, Forgiveness, Compassion, Courage) throughout the week.

Children also share their favourite things that have learnt from the week, including celebrating any sporting successes – finishing with our maths/times tables competition and drawing our winning reading tickets for the week.

Having brought our kitchen in-house, we are now in a position to utilise the kitchen beyond school meals.

From next week, we are looking at trialling a “grab bag” option that can be added to those staying after school for care club.

The bag would include…

• A choice of sandwich: cheese, ham, tuna, egg or jam
• A piece of fruit
• A salad “bag” – e.g. carrot sticks, cucumber
• Yogurt
• A cake (or similar)

Any children attending after school care club can have the “grab bag” option added – and would be just an additional £1.50. If you do wish for your child to have one for any of the sessions, please indicate this (and the choice of sandwich) to Mrs. Godfrey when booking for care club.

Please note that snacks (e.g. fruit, biscuit, piece of toast) will still be available to all pupils attending care club, but we will be trialling the “grab bag” as more substantive option for those that may want it.

As noted, this is a trial – and we will be seeing whether it works and any potential tweaks we can make.

Welcome Back Letter – Sept ’25

We hope everyone has had a good summer. We have enjoyed welcoming everyone back to school – and for our new reception pupils who have just started.

Here is just some information that we thought would be useful ahead of the new year.

School transport

At the start of the year, we are given a list of children who have been allocated a place on school transport. It is important that you let us know any regular routines where you child will not be going on the bus – as well as any last-minute changes.

Class Information

This academic year, we have the following class structure:

Fireflies (Reception)
Mrs. Nicky Fox (M-Th) & Mrs. Jennie Lister (F)
fireflies@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk
https://browncleeschool.org.uk/classroom/fireflies-class/

Grasshoppers (Year 1/2)
Mrs. Nicky Morris (M-Th) & Mrs. Kerri-Ann Sherry (F)
grasshoppers@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk
https://browncleeschool.org.uk/classroom/grasshoppers-class/

Dragonflies (Year 3/4)
Mrs. Ally Heath
dragonflies@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk
https://browncleeschool.org.uk/classroom/dragonflies-class/

Bees(Year 3/4)
Mrs. Amy Norman (M-Th) & Mr. Danny Harley (F)
bees@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk
https://browncleeschool.org.uk/classroom/bees-class/

Scorpions (Year 5/6)
Mrs. Mandy Cains
scorpions@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk
https://browncleeschool.org.uk/classroom/scorpions-class/

Communication

Regular email updates are sent out from our website. If you were previously subscribed, you should have received an email asking you to update these settings. If you missed this, you can update your information by clicking on “update your preferences” on the bottom of any “NEWS BULLETIN” email received. If you have not registered previously and would like to, you can sign using the following link (https://browncleeschool.org.uk/home/parents-area/updates/news-subscription/).

We do also share regular updates on our Facebook Page “Brown Clee C.E. Primary School”. This year, we have introduced a Facebook page for our kitchen – which will share various information about school meals. We are also planning on introducing a pupil-led termly newsletter – which will include updates on what our school council and various other aspects of school.

If you have any questions or queries, you can contact your child’s class teach on the email address above. Mrs. Lloyd will be able to help with any general enquiries – and she can be contacted on admin@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk. You can always catch a member of staff or myself at the starts or end of the day too. Please do share any concerns, as it is the best way for us to deal with any potential issues.

Pupil Premium / Free School Meals

Pupil premium is funding that schools receive for children that qualify for free school meals (note: this is not the same thing as Universal Infant Free School Meals – therefore, parents of pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 should consider applying). This funding is used to help towards various financial costs to parents in their schooling (not just free school meals).

This year, parents/carers can receive the following:

• A reduction in cost for…
  • After-school clubs
  • Wraparound club (before and after school)
  • Residential Trips
• Upon request, a reduction in cost for…
  • Individual/group music lessons
  • School uniform

Further information on this (such as eligibility) can be found on the school website (https://browncleeschool.org.uk/home/joining/meals/), by applying directly with Shropshire Council (https://next.shropshire.gov.uk/free-school-meals/apply-for-free-school-meals/) or by contacting school.

Wraparound Care and After-school Clubs

After-school clubs can be book online via ParentPay. Information on clubs can be found on the school website. Wraparound care can be arranged by contacting Mrs. Kerry Godfrey by emailing careclub@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk – and paid via ParentPay.

Celebration Assemblies

All parents, carers, grandparents etc. are invited to attend our weekly celebration assembly (Friday mornings at 08:55-09:30). Here, we give out any certificates for children for activities on TTRS, Numbots and Spelling Shed – as well as present our weekly trophy to the highest class on TTRS. This year, we are introducing values awards certificates – where pupils from each class will be awarded certificates for showing any of our school values.

We also share some of our favourite things from the week and any other significant events (e.g. sports competitions) and also draw our winning reading raffle tickets.

Friends of Brown Clee School (FOBCS)

FOBCS is our PTA – who run various events and fundraisers across the school year. The main source of information on this can be found on their Facebook page (Friends Of Brown Clee School | Facebook). We always welcome additional support and involvement from all parents/carers – whether directly joining the committee meetings or just helping out on the event days.

Just a quick reminder that after-school clubs start next week.

If you would like to book your child onto any clubs, this can be done on ParentPay. If you are having any issues with this, please get in touch.

Afterschool Clubs – Aut 25

Just as a note: Create Club is not £50 for the 7 weeks – but is £42. This has now been changed. If you have already paid, Mrs. Godfrey will be in touch.

Currently, there are still places in all of our clubs.

Just a reminder that there are PD Days on Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd September (i.e. children will begin school on Wednesday 3rd September).

Term dates are regularly updated on our website: https://browncleeschool.org.uk/home/termdates/. However, here is an overview of terms dates for next year: Brown Clee-term-dates-2025-2026

Please see below the school meal menus for next term:

Menus – Aut 25

We have recently received an update from Lads and Lasses that, following the tweaks to the uniform, the tweaked uniform options have gone into production and should be available to order very soon. There had been an error with the printing, causing the delay – which had meant that our uniform was printing with a white misprint. This has now been rectified.

Although already shared several times, the uniform tweaks are very minor (following feedback from parents) and will be as follows:

• Green mositure-wicking t-shirt (w/BC logo on front and “Brown Clee” on back). This has changed from the previous “pitted” material to a smoother fabric.
• An option of…
  • Black hoodie (w/ green BC logo on front and “Brown Clee” on back). This remains unchanged.
  • Green hoodie (w/ black BC logo on front and “Brown Clee” on back).
  • Black full-zip hoodie (w/ green BC logo on front and “Brown Clee” on back).
• An option of…
  • Black/navy shorts (these can be purchased from anywhere)
  • Black/navy leggings (these can be purchased from anywhere)
  • Black/navy jogging/tracksuit bottoms (these can be purchased from anywhere)
  • Black/navy “skorts” (these can be purchased from anywhere)
• Trainers (any colour)

All previous versions of the active uniform can be worn as long as you wish.

These tweaks should hopefully help remove some issues raised (such as the snagging and pulling on the t-shirts) – and, whilst we would like all children in “Brown Clee” uniform, we appreciate this is not always possible. The addition of a full-zip hoodie is not only a preferred option for some pupils, but means an unbranded alternative is easily purchasable and pupil doing so will not stand out as much as previously. Please remember that pupils in receipt of “Pupil Premium” funding (free-school meals) can received help with purchasing uniform and parents/carers should contact the school office (admin@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk) to arrange this. Please also rememebr that FOBCS have a second-hand uniform shop – where uniform can be donated and “purchased” for a small donation.

Please note that pupil premium funding (free-school meals) is different to “Universal Infant Free-School Meals”. All pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 are eligible for UIFSM – meaning they can receive a school meal for free. “Free-School Meals” is funding that is given to the school that is spent in a variety of ways to help those that need it (e.g. help with uniform costs, discounts with the cost of wraparound or after-school clubs and residential trips).

All parents/carers of all pupils (includuing those in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2) can apply for this at any age. For more information on eligibility and on how to apply, please see the following: https://next.shropshire.gov.uk/free-school-meals/apply-for-free-school-meals/ – and we would recommend any parents/carers that feel they could be eligible to apply as early on in their child’s schooling as possible.

Our rounders team took part in the School Games County Finals – representing East Shropshire – last term.

After some very close games, missing out on winning by half a rounder, the team did incredibly well in finishing 2nd overall.