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.

Just a reminder that Brown Clee Benefice will be holding a Leavers’ Service at St. John the Baptist Church on Monday at 2:00pm.

All parents, grandparents etc. of our Year 6 pupils are also invited (along with the Year 6s themselves!) to refreshments after the service itself.

Just to update you on the requested tweaks to the uniform.

We will be remaining with previous supply (Lads and Lasses) – who have informed us of some improvements they are making (e.g. a heat press being installed at the Bridgnorth site to allow on-site printing).

There will be some minor tweaks to the uniform – which will be phased in as existing stock is used up.

• The 1/4 zip option will no longer be in place. This is because the there a stocking issues with the top itself – as well as printing concerns. We did explore alternative options; however, these were either of poor quality or significantly more expensive.
• The black hoodie with green vinyl option will still remain.
• A green hoodie with black vinyl will be introduced.
• A black full-zip hoodie with green vinyl will also be introduced.
• We are currently in discussion of changing the t-shirt material used for the t-shirts to a “smoother”-type fabric – and hopefully can find a suitable solution with this.

As previously mentioned, previous versions of uniforms will still be allowed to be used for as long as you wish.

Please also remember that FOBCS do have a second-hand uniform stock that can be purchased for a small donation. Please get in touch if you have any unifrom of your own that you would like to donate to this or if you wish to purchase some of your own.

Lads and Lasses will be holding a sizing event after school on Tuesday 15th July – where sizing can be checked in person.

A reminder that tickets are available from the school office for the KS2 performance.

We will be opening this up to more than 4 tickets and to KS1 from Friday.

As mentioned in previous diary date updates, Sports Day will be on 8th July.

This will follow the same format as last year – beginning at 10:00am and finishing at around 15:00

The children will be split into three different teams for the day – and will be competing together with points collected throughout and the winners announced at the end of the day.

In the morning (beginning at 10:00), children will rotate around a series of different stations in smaller groups.

Everybody will be having a lunch break together at around 12:00.

In the afternoon (beginning at 13:00), they will take part in races in their year groups.

We will then present the winners for the day with their trophy – as well as presenting medals and certificates for our KS2 athletics competition that has been taking place over the last couple of weeks in school.

We hope to see you all for the event. Same as last year, the day has been designed so that you can attend part or the whole day, depending on preference.

Please see below information on a summer choir performances involving a choir from school, Brown Clee Community Choir and Of One Accord Choir at Ditton Priors VIllage Hall on Firday 11th July at 7:30pm.

Summer concert 2025

Children performing in this have already had letters – which have been returned. If your child is in KS2 and would like to take part, please let Mrs. Heath (dragonflies@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk) know as soon as possible. It would be great to have as many as possible performing.

Following the news shared early in March (https://browncleeschool.org.uk/staff-changes-next-year/), we held interviews at the start of last week to appoint two new teachers.

We are happy to announce that we have appointed Mrs. Sherri (for 1 day/week) and Mrs. Norman (for 4 days/week).

We can now share the class structures for next year:

As you can see above, given our variable numbers in year groups (some very large and some smaller), next year, we do need to join some year groups back together to create some mixed-aged classes in Dragonflies, Bees and Scorpions. However, we will be doing the opposite in Fireflies and Grasshoppers.

This means that we will have a pure reception year group in Fireflies, all of Year 1 and Year 2 in Grasshoppers. Year 4s will be split between Dragonflies and Bees – and Year 5s will be split between Bees and Scorpions.

As with previous years, we spend an extensive amount of time in assigning children to their classes. This is, however, not done based on age or academic attainment – but on what we feel is best for each child and the class dynamic. We will be informing children in Year 4 and Year 5 of their classes later next half term.

Next year, we have various different plans – including with P.E., music and French – where all of Year 3/4 will regularly be taught together and the same with all of Year 5/6.