Just a quick reminder, as shared earlier in the term, we will be collecting donation to Children in Need on Friday 13th November.

Children are invited to come to school in non-uniform – along with a donation (of any amount).

Please see below a poster regarding an Open Morning for anyone interested in potentially sending their children to Brown Clee to see the school in action. Please feel free to share with anyone that may be interested.

Open Morning poster

We have plenty of available spaces in our after-school clubs – which, as shared before half-term are all bookable via Arbor.

Afterschool Clubs – Aut (2) 26.pdf

This term, we have the following clubs after school:

• Monday: Sports Clubs with Mr. Evans
• Tuesday: Gymnastics with Mr. Harley (please note starts week 2)
• Wednesday: Netball with Miss Burton
• Thursday: Create Club with Kath 
• Friday: Dance with Mrs. Cains

Please see below an advert and application form for a teaching assistant position at the school

Advert: Teaching Assistant 2026
Application Form: Shropshire Council – Application Form

The above position could be taken in conjunction with our wraparound supervisor position for the right candidate.

Advert: Wraparound Supervisor(s) 2026

If anyone is interested in either, or both, of the roles, please feel free to get in touch for further infromation or to arrange a visit.

Please see below an updated term-time calendar. Unfortunately, there was an error on the original dates sent out last year: there is no PD on 12th April but there is on 22nd Feb. Apologies for any inconvenience this could have caused. 

PD days are on the following dates:
1st Sept 
23rd Oct
4th Jan
22nd Feb
7th June

Brown Clee-term-dates-2026-2027 – UPDATED

To try and streamline our systems, we are requesting that all parents could use Arbor for school meals from after half term.

We are working behind the scenes on setting up Wraparound Care too so that this can be paid here also. We are hoping this will also be ready for after half term.

Just as this term, clubs will only be bookable on Arbor.

If paying via tax-free childcare, this will remain the same.

This year, we will be raising money for Children in Need (Friday 13th November).

Children will be invited to come into school in non-uniform (alongside a donation of any amount). 

Mrs. Fox and Mrs. Sherry will be holding a “listening to your child read” workshop for parents of Reception, Year 1 and Year 2.

Please indicate on the form below if you would be interested in joining (to give us an idea of numbers). There will be free coffee/tea and/or cakes/biscuits!

Listening to your child read – EYFS/KS1 Workshop: Expression of interest – Fill in form

We have not before, but if KS2 (Year 3-6) parents could complete the following form (KS2 Workshop: Expression of interest – Fill in form) to indicate any interest in a range of potential workshops. This would give us an indication of whether there is enough interest in holding these.

Following the post from a few weeks ago regarding Parent-Feedback sessions (Parent Feedback Sessions – 8th/13th October – Brown Clee CE Primary School), please see below the booking pages for all children for each class:

Fireflies: https://calendly.com/fireflies-brownclee/fireflies-parent-feedback-meeting-aut-26
Dragonflies: https://calendly.com/dragonflies-brownclee/dragonflies-parent-feedback-meeting-aut-26
Bees: https://calendly.com/bees-brownclee/autumn-26-bees
Scorpions: https://calendly.com/scorpions-brownclee/autumn-26-scorpions

Please note that Mrs. Sherry, who has been covering the class whilst Mrs. Heath has been off, will be hosting the Dragonflies meetings. Due to Mrs. Sherry’s working days, these are on slightly different days (13th and 20th)

Reverend Joe will be hosting a Harvest Festival for the school at St. John the Baptist Church on Monday 5th October at 2:00pm

As usual, the whole school will be attending the event.

Parents, carers and other relatives are more than welcome to join us for the celebration.

As part of our Harvest Festival, donations of non-perishable food (e.g. tins, packets – e.g. pasta/cereal) are welcome to be brought into school. These will be taken from school up to the church to be donated to the local food bank.

We would be grateful if you could complete the following feedback form regarding your views of Brown Clee, as a school: Parent/Carer Views (Autumn ’26)- Brown Clee School – Fill in form.

We’d love to hear any positive feedback. As always, we are happy to listen to the views of parents/carers on how we could further improve – and, if you do have any particular concerns, issues or queries, please do get in touch (as this will be the best way to resolve these).

From next week, any parents/carers that wish to join our Celebration Worship are more than welcome to.

These start at 14:45 until 15:10.

During these assemblies, we share certificates, such as…

• Values awards
• Top 3 pupils on TTRS
• Highest scoring class on TTRS
• Top scoring pupils from each class on Spelling Shed
• Top 3 pupils on Spelling Shed
• Top 3 pupils on Numbots in each Key Stage

We also share an highlights from the week, including any school trip and sporting events.

If time, we also have maths challenges that pupils can opt in for.

It would be great to have as many parents/carers as possible in for these.

Please see below the school’s wraparound policy:
Wraparound Policy – Autumn ’26

We are currently experience a lot of additional administrative load around wraparound – specifically care club.

The main aspects, within the above policy, that would lessen this impact for us would be…

• Wherever possible, bookings being made by the preceding week (i.e. by the Friday before)
  • Please note that emergency bookings made after 3:15pm for the following morning session cannot be guaranteed – as there may not be a care club supervisor available
• Ensuring invoices for care club are paid within 14 days.
  • If, for whatever reason (as stated on all the invoices), these cannot be paid in time, please get in touch – as we can happily arrange something to help
  • Unfortunately, repeated non-payments (without attempts to explain) may result in an additional administration charge and/or withdrawal of access from wraparound care
• Ensuring pick off and drop times are provided to Extended Schools Co-ordinator (careclub@brownclee.shropshire) or Office (admin@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk)
  • If running late, please phone to let school know
  • If pupils have not been picked up on assigned time (without contact), parents/carers will be contacted
  • Care club ends at 6:00pm. If children have not be picked up at this time (without contact), parents/carers will be contacted.
  • If contact has not been reached, alternative contacts will be attempted
  • If, after several attempts of contacts have been made, no contact has been made by 7:00pm, school will need to following safeguarding procedures by contacting the police regarding the potential of missing parent(s)/carer(s)
• If booking a morning session, these will be charged from the booking time (if earlier than arrival time) – e.g. booked at 07:30 and arrived at 08:00 will be charged from 07:30
  • As we are having situations where staff are arriving expecting children, who do not arrive until later

Parent Feedback Sessions will be running this term for all pupils on the following dates…
– 8th October (13:00 – 17:00)
– 13th October (14:00 – 18:00)

Bookings will be available nearer the time.

Following our recent advert for a casual care club supervisor, we unfortunately had no applicants for this position.

As a consequence, we will be extended the advert for this position. Please see below:

Careclub Supervisor(s) 2026

If anyone is interested, please get in touch with the school office (admin@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk), and we can help with any questions/queries.

Unfortunately, if we are unable to fill this position, it may affect the hours/days that wraparound provision can be provided.

Please see below the attached letter regarding a cross country competition open to all Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 children: Cross Country – 26.

Children that express an interest in taking part in this in in school will be given a letter, and it would be great to see as many children as possible from Brown Clee competing.

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the School Games Platinum Mark Award for the academic years ’25/’26 and ’26/’27.

The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

This will mark the 6th year in a row that Brown Clee has achieved the Platinum Mark Award in recognition of our commitment to providing meaningful opportunities for all children to compete in inter-/intra-competition, opportunities for leadership in sports, utilising the role of sport in supporting physical and mental health and enabling a culture of physical activity across the whole school.

Following on from information shared before the summer (Shropshire’s Parenting Team: Updates – Brown Clee CE Primary School), this is a quick reminder that Mrs. Godfrey (from school) and Laura Furniss from pre-school are hosting an “Understanding Your Child” Workshop at Brown Clee School this term: PDF Version.

We’d encourage any parents (no matter their child’s age) that would like some time to discuss anything (big or small) regarding parenting, The session is designed to be a friendly, relaxed and open way for us to help with anything you might want to talk about, including communicating and connecting with your child, any issues or concerns around sleep, helping to understand behaviour and emotions and your child developments – as well as anything else you might want discuss with Kerry and Laura (and any others that may be in a similar situation).