Little Explorers Open Day and St John the Baptist fete – Saturday 16th May

Little Explorers are holding an open day tomorrow to celebrate the opening of their new Baby Room from 11am until 2pm. There will be light refreshments and a session with Jiggy Wrigglers.  Everyone is welcome to come along.  Please see the poster below for more information.

 

Also on Saturday St John the Baptist Church will be holding their fete between 1pm and 4pm.  There will be a BBQ, raffle, stalls, fames and also live music.

Summer Fayre – Saturday 27th June

Please see the poster below regarding this year’s Summer Fayre:

For those wanting to take part in the colour run (adults and children) on the day, please following the following link to book a place: Colour Run

 

If anyone wants to hire a stall, please follow the following link: Brown Clee & Little Explorers Summer Fete: Stall holder application

 

If anyone is interested in sponsoring a colour station, please follow the following link: Colour Run- Station Sponsorship

 

Further information, including info on an art/design competition for children to take part in ahead of the day, will follow.

Change to KS2 Performance Timings

Just a quick update on KS2 performances at the end of term – as there has been some timing changes for these.

  • The evening performance (6pm start) will now be on Tuesday 14th July.
  • The afternoon performance (2pm start) will now be on Wednesday 15th July.

Both events will be taking place at the village hall.

Ticket information will be available nearer the time.

Enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend!

We hope everyone has a lovely Bank Holiday and enjoys the long weekend and that the weather is kind for all those who will be taking part in the Bridgnorth Walk or going to the fair in Ludlow. We will see all the children on Tuesday.

Summer ’26 Dates – Update

As shared at the end of last term, we have the following dates upcoming this term. Please note some of these dates have now been set (when previously TBC)

  • School Mid-year Reports (Year 1-6): Before half term
  • KS2 Swimming: Wednesdays (22nd Apr – 20th May)
  • Year 6 SATs Week: 11th – 14th May
  • Sports Day (Provisional): Tuesday 30th June
  • KS2 Performances: Tuesday 14th July (2:00pm) and Wednesday 15th July (6:00pm)
  • Leavers’ Service: Monday 13th July (2:15pm)
  • Leavers’ Assembly: Monday 17th July (9:00am)
  • Year 1 Phonics Screening Week: 8th – 12th June
  • School Choir Performance with Brown Clee Choir and Of One Accord Choir: 10th July

Further events/information will be available in due course.

Fact Families

In Maths, we have been using 3 related numbers to create a fact family. Please could the children have a go at the game below. Start with numbers up to 10 and if they are feeling confident they can move onto 20, 50 or 100.
Google – ‘Topmarks number fact families game’

Thank you

Fireflies’ Trip to High Leys Farm

This week Fireflies had a wonderful time on their trip to High leys farm in Stoke St Milborough. They enjoyed pond dipping, a nature hunt, looking at the cows and calves and making bird feeders. Feeding the goats was a highlight of the day.

 

After School activity clubs

Spaces are still available on all clubs

Monday – Board games

Tuesday – Rounders or Book Club

Wednesday – Scratch coding

Thursday – Creative Arts

Friday – Sports club (Mr Harley)

There is a possibility that book club could change from Tuesday to Wednesday, if enough people are interested

Kerry

Forest School/Spellings

I hope that you all had a lovely Easter.

Forest School

As you know, Mrs Rollings retired at the end of last term and so Mrs Godfrey has taken over leading Forest School. This means that Forest School for Grasshoppers will now be on a Tuesday afternoon. The children will not be split into two groups so all the children will have a Forest School session every week. Sessions will begin next week, on Tuesday 21st April.

We do have some wellies, coats and waterproof trousers but if your child prefers to wear their own clothing and footwear then please send this each Tuesday.

Spellings

The children had a break from spellings, over Easter and so they will be given their new spelling lists on Thursday. Their next spelling test will be on Thursday 23rd April.

Many thanks

Summer term in Bees

I hope that you have all enjoyed the Easter break and look forward to seeing you in class soon! Our topic this term is The United Kingdom. Take a look below at what we will be finding out about:

 

Summer ’26 – Menus

Please see below this term’s school meals menus:

 

This term, we are trially a daily panini option (along with our usual jacket potato and sandwich options).

KS2 Swimming – Summer Term

After a long while of trying to arrange for swimming sessions this year, we have finally managed to secure a suitable slot at Much Wenlock Leisure Centre.

These sessions will run on Wednesdays from 22nd April until half term.

Please see the following letter (which will also be distributed physical on Monday): KS2 Swimming – Sum 26

 

 

As we need to know swimming confidence to plan our groupings, could this please be returned as soon as possible.

Forest School – Update

As you will have seen, Mrs. Rollings retired at the end of last term. The whole school went down during Bees’ Forest School session to say goodbye.

 

Fortunately, Mrs. Godfrey is already Forest-School qualified (having taken the qualification several years ago) – which means we can continue with Forest School at school without a significant disruption.

 

There will be a short period whilst minor adjustments are put in place. However, this should only be 1-2 weeks. Class teachers will confirm when the first sessions will be for their classes.

 

Once up and running, sessions will be as follows:

  • Fireflies: Monday afternoons
  • Grasshoppers: Tuesday afternoons
  • Bees/Scorpions: Alternating Friday afternoons

Working Party – Saturday – Re-arranged

A humongous thank you to all of those that helped out clearing/tidying the school grounds on Wednesday

 

Due to the weather not likely to be great on Saturday, we are going to re-arrange the 2nd session from Saturday 4th April to Tuesday 7th. We will be starting from 09:30 again (but again feel free to arrive whenever suits you).

 

We’d be massively grateful for anyone that is able to help out (in any way!).

End of Easter Term and Summer ’26 Information

A big thank you for everyone’s support this term.

 

Please look at for the following for next term:

  • School Mid-year Reports (Year 1-6): Before half term
  • KS2 Swimming: Wednesdays (from 22nd) – Letter to follow
  • Fireflies School Trip: 21st April
  • Year 6 SATs Week: 11th – 14th May
  • Sports Day: After half term (TBC)
  • KS2 Performances: Towards the end of the second half term (TBC)
  • Leavers’ Service and Assembly: Towards the end of the second half term (TBC)
  • Year 1 Phonics Screening Week: 8th – 12th June
  • School Choir Performance with Brown Clee Choir and Of One Accord Choir: 10th July

Further events/information will be available in due course.

 

Next term, we will be also looking at transitioning over to Arbor for our management of school data/information. This will involve an app that parents can use to easily access key information about school and their child. This will eventually also overtake ParentPay for making payments for meals, clubs etc.. Due to some unfortunate ongoing issues with Parent Pay / SIMS, this transition is not running as smoothly as we would like – and, therefore, we are trying to manage things so that this has as little impact to parents as possible; however, we shall keep you updated as we hopefully resolve these issues.

 

In case you missed it: we are holding 2 working parties at school over the Easter break – that we would more than welcome anyone to join and help out.

 

We hope everyone has a well-earnt rest over Easter – and we will see everyone back on Monday 13th April.

Working Parties – Update

Thank you to those that have indicated that they will be joining us for the working parties (on Wednesday 1st April and/or Saturday 4th April).

 

For those joining, we will be aiming to begin from 09:30 (but please feel free to arrive whenever suits you!).

KS1 Coffee and Cake

This week, we were delighted to welcome the parents and grandparents of children in Fireflies and Grasshoppers into school for coffee and cake. It was wonderful to see so many families join us and spend time together in school. Thank you to everyone that came and helped to make it such a special event.

 

Spring HAF Activities

Shropshire Council will be running the Holiday Fun and Food in Shropshire programme over the Easter holidays.  Children who are in receipt of Free School Meals can attend these activities free of charge using the code on a leaflet which will be sent home with them today.  Many of the activities also have paid places available for children not in receipt of Free School Meals, please see below for further details.

HAF 2026 Spring What’s On-compressed

FOBCS: Guess the Name of the Rabbit

FOBCS’s “guess the name of the rabbit” competition still has plenty of names left – with the winning name being decided on Friday’s celebration assembly.

May be an image of text that says "Friends of Brown Clee School EASTER FUNDRAISER! GABY GaBy GARY GUESS THE NAME OF THE RABBIT! WIN AN AMAZING EASTER EASTER HAMPER! Entry: f1 Per Guess ay at the School Office Winner Drawn on the Last Day of Term!"

Working Party – Easter Holidays

Now that the weather has begun to pick up, we are looking to organise a working party at school to tidy up the school grounds – and would really appreciate any volunteers (adults and children) to join together on Wednesday 1st April and Saturday 4th April (during Easter) to try and tackle some of the key areas to get things tidied as much as possible.

 

We’d be looking at trying to complete as much of the following:

  • Clearing fallen leaves and debris from playgrounds/paths and fields
  • Tidying edges of playgrounds/field
  • Clean and painting/treating fences
  • Clean, fix and paint/treat gazebo
  • Clean signs
  • Clear leaves and debris from bottoms of hedges
  • Tidy and clear forest school
  • Clear channel drains around playground
  • Any other ideas anyone has on the day

If anyone has any equipment – e.g brooms/leaf blowers/jet wash – that could be useful, that would also be really appreciated.

 

We would also be looking at providing refreshments for the volunteers on the day.

 

If anyone is able to help, please indicate on the following form: Working Party – School Grounds – Fill in form – so that we can have an idea of how to plan out what we do.

 

If children are joining, they will also need to help. Older children (i.e. Year 5/6) could join on their own (if parents wish); however, all other children will need an adult present to be responsible for them (this does not need to be their parent).