Good afternoon

We held a small but productive meeting this afternoon with regards the re-startup of FOBCS – please see the letter below – and please note – we now have Chairs and Secretaries but we desperately need a Treasurer!!

FOBCS Update Letter

We are delighted to inform parents and families that we have been fortunate to gain a place on the Skills Builder Partnership Accelerator Programme!

The Skills Builder Partnership brings together 700+ schools, colleges, employers
and impact-led organisations around a common approach to building eight essential skills. These are the highly transferable skills that set people up for future success and unlock learning in the classroom.

These are the highly transferable skills that set people up for future success and unlock
learning in the classroom.

Now that we have been successful in gaining a place on the Skills Builder Accelerator Programme, we will develop be able to work with the partnership to develop sustainable strategies for teaching these essential skills to help prepare all our children to make progress and give them the language to talk about their skillset confidently,
too.

We have had an exciting assembly this morning when we had a visit from two Police Officers – Police Constable Davies and Police Community Support Officer Hyde.  They talked about their different roles and then the children had the opportunity to ask some questions.  They wanted to know about Police dogs and the different breeds, the different aspects of their roles (best bits and not so good bits!),  what was the uniform like and was it comfortable and how many different police vehicles they have.

The Reception children then had the opportunity to learn about the police car and sit in it – they even turned the blue lights and siren on – it was very loud! @Bridgnorthcops

Please find a letter with useful information and dates for the Summer Term in the letter below:

Summer Term Update

This year sees the Coronation of King Charles 3^rd on Saturday 6^th May and we very much want to celebrate this historic occasion.

So on Friday 5^th May school uniform is optional and children may wear red, white and blue or regal themed clothing instead.  They will also be enjoying a special whole school picnic lunch (normal school meals are still available.

We would like to thank all the parents, grandparents, sisters, uncles, aunts and family members who joined us this afternoon for World Book Day!  We have had a wonderful day full of reading and stories, as well as book-based activities.  The highlight was this afternoon when families joined us for a BIG read…

We also shared a presentation about World Book Day and their mission to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. We also shared the fact that reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success.

World Book Day Presentation

IMPORTANCE OF READING

What’s your favourite children’s picture book?  

Don’t forget to join us on Thursday at 2pm, along with your favourite picture book, as all parents are welcome to join their child to enjoy sharing your favourite story together in the classroom.

You can then join us at 2.30pm for a special World Book Day Assembly in the school hall!

We are really sorry to see Mrs Morris leave us today!  She has been a brilliant teacher of the Fireflies on Fridays and has added so much as part of the Brown Clee Team.  We would like to wish her all the best in the future and say a massive THANK YOU for all she has done to teach, nurture and care for the children in the Fireflies.

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After half term, Mrs Fox will be teaching the Fireflies for a few weeks until our new Fireflies Friday, Mrs Lister, starts – and we look forwards to welcoming Mrs Lister to our team!

We believe that every day is World Book Day as reading is the key to future success – but celebrating Books on Thursday 2nd March is one way to ensure we promote the importance and love of reading.  So the staff and children have planned a day full of activities and we also want parents to be involved too!.

The day will be one that is filled with READING – lots of it and lots of talking about books and stories.  There will be Buddy Reading, writing about books, competitions and a special assembly in the afternoon where parents are invited to join us to hear some children reading excerpts from their favourite books, hear about the activities of the day and share some of our favourite stories.  The Assembly will be at 2.30pm in the school hall, but before that we also want to invite parents to join their child/children in class by bringing in their own favourite picture book and share it with their child in school.  So if you wish to join your child on World Book Day, come along at 2pm with your favourite picture book and enjoy sharing it with your child!

We are also inviting children to create a craft character from one of their favourite books and bring it in from home – in the past we have had vegetable characters, but this year we are opening it up to being any sort of craftwork – children can be as creative and inventive as they wish – as long as they can be carried into school!  They will be on display in the hall so everyone can see them in the assembly.

We would also like to continue to support Birmingham Children’s Hospital as they are doing such a fantastic job of treating and supporting Jake and his family – so if children wish to wear their own clothes, or dress up as their favourite story character, or wear blue for Jake they can do – as long as they make a small donation to charity.

This week in assemblies we have been talking about books!  We have shared some of our favourites and enjoyed listening to a different story each day.  Here is the list of some of our favourite books – which we thoroughly recommend you share!  The children were fantastic at giving us all their reviews and reasons for why we should read them.