We had another visit to Ditton Priors Care Home yesterday when Megan, Kieran and Mollie enjoyed having a chat, reading stories and playing games with some of the residents. Kieran’s Bee Game was a particular favourite!

In assembly today we reminded ourselves of our school charity – Karibuni Children.

We have been supporting Karibuni Children for 3 years now, following a visit by Joy Murphy, one of the founding trustees.  We were delighted to welcome Joy back to school in the summer term, when she shared the news of her Spring visit, when she took our pant donations – all 1300 pairs of them!

We asked Joy what Karibuni would like our next project to be and she asked if we could collect more pants – as they are something that many children in the schools don’t have enough of.  So we have our collection baskets ready in the Reception Area…

and we will be collecting pants until the end of January when I will need to box them up and send to Joy so that she can take them out to Kenya on her Spring 2023 visit. I wonder if we can beat 1300 pairs this year!

We are absolutely delighted for our Brown Clee Buddies to be invited back to Ditton Priors Care Home! These weekly visits were such a highlight of our week, prior to Covid19, and both residents and children hugely benefited from the social interactions.

So when we received the call asking if we would like to resume our visits we jumped at the chance…and last week our first Brown Clee Buddies headed across to the Care Home to read stories, play games and have a chat!

Thank you to those parents who turned up today for our ‘Help Your Child Read’ workshop, where we shared information about phonics, blending, segmenting and strategies to help you to support your child’s early reading skills,

We will be sharing the information shared by emailing the presentation out to all infant parents as well as posting it on the school website ‘learning’ pages.

Books of condolence are open across Shropshire so people can pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, whose death was announced to the nation yesterday evening.

These give Shropshire residents the opportunity to pay their respects to The Queen and share their thoughts, feelings and memories about her 70-year reign.

Books of condolence are open at the following locations from 9.30am today (Friday 9 September). Libraries will be open for the public to sign the books until 6pm today, and 9am-6pm during weekdays next week,  throughout the period of mourning:

• Bridgnorth Library
• Ludlow Library
• Mayor’s Parlour, The Castle, Shrewsbury
• Market Drayton Library
• Oswestry Library
• Shrewsbury Library
• Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury
• Shrewsbury Museum, Shrewsbury
• Whitchurch Library

Find your nearest library opening times here.

Books of condolences will also be available at a number of town and parish councils and churches in Shropshire.

Church Stretton

Church Stretton Town Council will be opening a book of condolence. It will be available in the Silvester Horne Institute between 10am and 4pm. There is also a book of condolence in St Lawrence’s Church.

Albrighton

Albrighton Library has a book of condolence available for the public. The library will be open from 10am to 5pm today.

Ellesmere

A book will be open at Ellesmere Town Hall from 10.30am today. Access to the building will be 10am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday, weekdays from 9am to 3pm.

The town council is happy to open up the building by prior appointment should anyone wish to sign that is unable to do so within the normal opening hours and a book will also be open at St Mary’s Church from 8am today throughout daylight hours each day.

Cleobury Mortimer

A book of condolence in St. Mary’s Church, Cleobury Mortimer.

Much Wenlock

The book of condolence in Much Wenlock will be located in Holy Trinity Church, not the library.

Alternatively, you can sign the national online condolence book at www.royal.uk

Those who do not have access to the internet or are not able to go to a location to sign a book of condolence, can send handwritten messages or cards to be addressed to Chair of Shropshire Council, Democratic Services, Shirehall, Shrewsbury, SY2 6ND. These will be placed in the books of condolences.

We know many people will want to express their sadness by laying flowers. Floral tributes can be made at Shrewsbury Castle as well as many other local locations across the county.

The first floral tributes were laid this morning by The Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire Anna Turner and she was joined by Chairman of the Council Vince Hunt and Leader of the Council Lezley Picton in signing the Book of Condolence there.

The Lord-Lieutenant, the Chairman, the Leader, and Shropshire Council’s chief executive Andy Begley lead the tributes to Her Majesty, which can be read in full here.

We express our deepest sympathies for the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Her dedication to the UK, other realms & territories is unparalleled & we thank her for her service. We will observe the mourning period whilst continuing to support our children, families and staff.

We are seeking to appoint enthusiastic, highly motivated and
excellent practitioners to join our committed and dedicated team of Care Club Supervisers.

The role involves supervising children at our Breakfast and / or After School club, providing activities for the children attending to participate in and ensuring that children have a quiet and safe space to relax before or after the school day.

Start date November 2022, fixed term to August 2023 in the first instance

7:40am-8:55am Monday, Tuesday and Friday
3:15pm-5.30 pm Monday and Friday
Term time only
£9.37 per hour

If you are interested then please contact the School Office.

Job Description

Person Specification

All school jobs are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and
Barring Service (DBS)

We would like to wish all our children and families a restful, relaxing and happy summer break and look forwards to welcoming children back on Tuesday 6th September.

We also wish our Year 6 pupils all the very best in the future as they make their next steps in education – they have been a fantastic group of young people and we know that they have a bright future ahead of them!

We would like to thank parents for their support throughout the past academic year, and also their kind words and generosity.  We really value the partnership between school and home and look forwards to working together when the new term starts in September!

Wishing everyone a wonderful summer!

Shropshire Council have asked us to share the following report on Child Exploitation.

Shropshire Child Exploitation – Leaflet for Parents Carers