Please see below some key dates ahead of the rest of term:

FOBCS Christma Carols and Stalls event (followed by Church lights switch-on)
Thursday 27th November – starts at16:30

Reception and Year 6 Height and Weight Check
Tuesday 2nd December

Pioneer Centre (Y3/4)
Wednesday 3rd December – Friday 5th December

Nativity performances
Tuesday 9th December – Afternoon Performance
Wednesday 10th December – Evening Performance

Christmas concert (with Brown Clee and Of One Accord Choirs) – at Village Hall
Friday 12th December

Christmas Service (at church)
Monday 15th December – 14:15

Pupil feedback sessions for parents
Wednesday 17th December – 13:00-18:00

Christmas dinner & Christmas jumper day
Thursday 18th December

Unfortunately, we didn’t receive any nominations in our last parent governor elections.

We will be holding a second election period. Please see the attached letter: Governor Election – Nov 25.

If you wish to nominate yourself (or anyone else), please fill in the following form: Parent Governor Nominations – Autumn ’25. This will be open until Wednesday 26th November.

If anyone is considering nomination but are unsure about doing so, please ask (either by email or in person) – and we can give you further information about what the role involves

Last week, we had a live band in school from Shropshire Music Service – who performed a range of different songs:

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.