Please see below an updated term-time calendar. Unfortunately, there was an error on the original dates sent out last year: there is no PD on 12th April but there is on 22nd Feb. Apologies for any inconvenience this could have caused. 

PD days are on the following dates:
1st Sept 
23rd Oct
4th Jan
22nd Feb
7th June

Brown Clee-term-dates-2026-2027 – UPDATED

To try and streamline our systems, we are requesting that all parents could use Arbor for school meals from after half term.

We are working behind the scenes on setting up Wraparound Care too so that this can be paid here also. We are hoping this will also be ready for after half term.

Just as this term, clubs will only be bookable on Arbor.

If paying via tax-free childcare, this will remain the same.

This year, we will be raising money for Children in Need (Friday 13th November).

Children will be invited to come into school in non-uniform (alongside a donation of any amount). 

Mrs. Fox and Mrs. Sherry will be holding a “listening to your child read” workshop for parents of Reception, Year 1 and Year 2.

Please indicate on the form below if you would be interested in joining (to give us an idea of numbers). There will be free coffee/tea and/or cakes/biscuits!

Listening to your child read – EYFS/KS1 Workshop: Expression of interest – Fill in form

We have not before, but if KS2 (Year 3-6) parents could complete the following form (KS2 Workshop: Expression of interest – Fill in form) to indicate any interest in a range of potential workshops. This would give us an indication of whether there is enough interest in holding these.

Following the post from a few weeks ago regarding Parent-Feedback sessions (Parent Feedback Sessions – 8th/13th October – Brown Clee CE Primary School), please see below the booking pages for all children for each class:

Fireflies: https://calendly.com/fireflies-brownclee/fireflies-parent-feedback-meeting-aut-26
Dragonflies: https://calendly.com/dragonflies-brownclee/dragonflies-parent-feedback-meeting-aut-26
Bees: https://calendly.com/bees-brownclee/autumn-26-bees
Scorpions: https://calendly.com/scorpions-brownclee/autumn-26-scorpions

Please note that Mrs. Sherry, who has been covering the class whilst Mrs. Heath has been off, will be hosting the Dragonflies meetings. Due to Mrs. Sherry’s working days, these are on slightly different days (13th and 20th)

Reverend Joe will be hosting a Harvest Festival for the school at St. John the Baptist Church on Monday 5th October at 2:00pm

As usual, the whole school will be attending the event.

Parents, carers and other relatives are more than welcome to join us for the celebration.

As part of our Harvest Festival, donations of non-perishable food (e.g. tins, packets – e.g. pasta/cereal) are welcome to be brought into school. These will be taken from school up to the church to be donated to the local food bank.

We would be grateful if you could complete the following feedback form regarding your views of Brown Clee, as a school: Parent/Carer Views (Autumn ’26)- Brown Clee School – Fill in form.

We’d love to hear any positive feedback. As always, we are happy to listen to the views of parents/carers on how we could further improve – and, if you do have any particular concerns, issues or queries, please do get in touch (as this will be the best way to resolve these).

From next week, any parents/carers that wish to join our Celebration Worship are more than welcome to.

These start at 14:45 until 15:10.

During these assemblies, we share certificates, such as…

• Values awards
• Top 3 pupils on TTRS
• Highest scoring class on TTRS
• Top scoring pupils from each class on Spelling Shed
• Top 3 pupils on Spelling Shed
• Top 3 pupils on Numbots in each Key Stage

We also share an highlights from the week, including any school trip and sporting events.

If time, we also have maths challenges that pupils can opt in for.

It would be great to have as many parents/carers as possible in for these.

Please see below the school’s wraparound policy:
Wraparound Policy – Autumn ’26

We are currently experience a lot of additional administrative load around wraparound – specifically care club.

The main aspects, within the above policy, that would lessen this impact for us would be…

• Wherever possible, bookings being made by the preceding week (i.e. by the Friday before)
  • Please note that emergency bookings made after 3:15pm for the following morning session cannot be guaranteed – as there may not be a care club supervisor available
• Ensuring invoices for care club are paid within 14 days.
  • If, for whatever reason (as stated on all the invoices), these cannot be paid in time, please get in touch – as we can happily arrange something to help
  • Unfortunately, repeated non-payments (without attempts to explain) may result in an additional administration charge and/or withdrawal of access from wraparound care
• Ensuring pick off and drop times are provided to Extended Schools Co-ordinator (careclub@brownclee.shropshire) or Office (admin@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk)
  • If running late, please phone to let school know
  • If pupils have not been picked up on assigned time (without contact), parents/carers will be contacted
  • Care club ends at 6:00pm. If children have not be picked up at this time (without contact), parents/carers will be contacted.
  • If contact has not been reached, alternative contacts will be attempted
  • If, after several attempts of contacts have been made, no contact has been made by 7:00pm, school will need to following safeguarding procedures by contacting the police regarding the potential of missing parent(s)/carer(s)
• If booking a morning session, these will be charged from the booking time (if earlier than arrival time) – e.g. booked at 07:30 and arrived at 08:00 will be charged from 07:30
  • As we are having situations where staff are arriving expecting children, who do not arrive until later

Parent Feedback Sessions will be running this term for all pupils on the following dates…
– 8th October (13:00 – 17:00)
– 13th October (14:00 – 18:00)

Bookings will be available nearer the time.

Following our recent advert for a casual care club supervisor, we unfortunately had no applicants for this position.

As a consequence, we will be extended the advert for this position. Please see below:

Careclub Supervisor(s) 2026

If anyone is interested, please get in touch with the school office (admin@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk), and we can help with any questions/queries.

Unfortunately, if we are unable to fill this position, it may affect the hours/days that wraparound provision can be provided.

Please see below the attached letter regarding a cross country competition open to all Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 children: Cross Country – 26.

Children that express an interest in taking part in this in in school will be given a letter, and it would be great to see as many children as possible from Brown Clee competing.

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the School Games Platinum Mark Award for the academic years ’25/’26 and ’26/’27.

The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

This will mark the 6th year in a row that Brown Clee has achieved the Platinum Mark Award in recognition of our commitment to providing meaningful opportunities for all children to compete in inter-/intra-competition, opportunities for leadership in sports, utilising the role of sport in supporting physical and mental health and enabling a culture of physical activity across the whole school.

Following on from information shared before the summer (Shropshire’s Parenting Team: Updates – Brown Clee CE Primary School), this is a quick reminder that Mrs. Godfrey (from school) and Laura Furniss from pre-school are hosting an “Understanding Your Child” Workshop at Brown Clee School this term: PDF Version.

We’d encourage any parents (no matter their child’s age) that would like some time to discuss anything (big or small) regarding parenting, The session is designed to be a friendly, relaxed and open way for us to help with anything you might want to talk about, including communicating and connecting with your child, any issues or concerns around sleep, helping to understand behaviour and emotions and your child developments – as well as anything else you might want discuss with Kerry and Laura (and any others that may be in a similar situation).

Forest School will be starting for all children.

However, currently, there is a large Oak tree just outside the school grounds (by the Forest School site) that has recently required work due to damage – and we are awaiting for Shropshire Homes (as the tree is within their site) to confirm that this tree has been assessed and deemed risk free.

Therefore, we are currently unsure when this will start back up. We will keep you updated with this when we receive any further information.

Once back up, the plan will be that Fireflies (Reception and Year 1) will have Forest School once a week. Dragonflies (Year 2/3) will have Forest School every other week. Years 4, 5 and 6 will have Forest School on a rolling programme. Further information will be shared by class teachers once we have a potential starting date for this to resume.

We all hope everyone has had a good summer.

Please see below a letter regarding returning back in tomorrow: Welcome Back Letter – Sept ’26

School meals for the upcoming half term remain unchanged from last term (https://browncleeschool.org.uk/summer-26-menus/).

As previously shared (https://browncleeschool.org.uk/category/schoolupdates/#post-45652), meals are bookable on both Arbor and ParentPay (with ParentPay to be phased out of use)

Any questions, as always ask.
– admin@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk (School Office)
– davies.l@browncleeshropshire.sch.uk (School Kitchen)

Some of you may be aware that new statutory allergy guidance for schools is to be introduced from this September.

You may have heard this referred to as “Benedict’s Law“. The DfE guidance for this can be found here: Allergy Safety in Schools.

The significant changes that will be in place:

• Whole-school Allergy Safety/Management Policy (which, from September ’26, can be found on our Policies Page)
• Additional training for all staff on allergy awareness, recognising symptoms of mild allergic reactions and severe allergic reactions (e.g. anaphylaxis) and how to treat these
  • A culture of allergy awareness is vitally important with this – which will also involve children’s awareness of allergies (particularly in cases of known allergies)
• Individual Healthcare Plans for pupils with severe allergies.
  • We already have these and implement them for pupils with any food hypersensitivity (i.e. allergies, intolerances or auto-immune diseases – and not just severe allergies)
  • Parents/carers of these children will be contacted in September regarding their child’s
  • If your child has a food hypersensitivity (allergy, intolerance or auto-immune disease) that school are not aware of, or ever develops one, please let us know as soon as possible so that the correct support can be put in place
• Spare adrenaline auto-injectors (e.g. EpiPens) are kept in school. These would be used in the following cases:
  • Suspected anaphylaxis in pupils with their own AAIs (only if their own devices are not working)
  • Suspected anaphylaxis in pupils without AAIs
    • Under Regulation 238 of the Human Medicines Regulations (2012) permits a school’s spare adrenaline auto-injector(s) to be used for any pupil or other person not known by the school to be at risk of anaphylaxis in an emergency unforeseen situation. Written permission is not required. (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency).

Any questions regarding this, as with everything, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Following on from the recent update regarding Arbor, please see below some guides on using this (for those that are not familiar):

Topping up accounts and viewing parents in the Parent Portal: https://support.arbor-education.com/hc/en-us/articles/22123135039773-Top-up-accounts-and-viewing-payments-in-the-Parent-Portal#h_01KKH42ABYXD7D3F94QQZNQCFY

We have created a quick overview guide on the Parent Portal – which highlights the features currently available and those that will hopefully be available as we transition from SIMS/Parent Pay to Arbor: Parent Portal Guide

Ahead of the new term, we have now set up meal bookings via Arbor (please see previous post regarding accessing this: https://browncleeschool.org.uk/arbor-email-invite/).

Currently, meals can be booked BOTH via ParentPay and Arbor – and parents can continue to book meals using ParentPay (as previously).

We will eventually be phasing out ParentPay, but this won’t happen immediately – and we will keep you updated ahead of when this will no longer be useable.

Any questions or queries, please don’t hesistate in getting in touch.

As per communication earlier in the week, additional tickets for Tuesday’s Evening Performance (18:00-19:00) and Wednesday’s afternoon performance (13:30-15:00) are available. Those on waiting lists should have been contacted regarding the ticket’s availability.

If anyone wishes to purchase further tickets, please contact the school: admin@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk.

Please see below an update from Shropshire Council regarding changes to Free-school meals eligibility: FSM Update for Families

In summary, FSM is changing this upcoming September, meaning more families are eligible for this funding. There will also be annual eligibility checks carried out by Shropshire Council.

If you feel you may qualify for FSM, please do make an application via the link above – as not only will it enable you reductions to additional services (e.g. help towards uniform costs and music lessons, reduced costs for after-school clubs and wraparound, reduction in costs to access residentials), but the more children in school that are registered as FSM at the school will also result in additional funding for the school.

Even if unsure, making an application would be beneifical.

If anyone would like any help in making application, please get in touch as we can assist with this.