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Class Structure ’26-’27

Although a while off, here is some information on class structures for next academic year. As with this term, there will be four classes across the school:

Next year’s Year 5 pupils will be assigned to their class later this term.

Senior Leadership Team

As part of our ongoing school improvement and development, we have taken the decision to create a senior leadership team (or SLT) – which is common across lots of primary and secondary schools. Our senior leadership team will be made up of…

• Headteacher – Mr. Harley
• Assistant Headteacher – Mrs. Cains
• Special Educational Needs and Disability Co-ordinator (SENDCo.) – Mrs. Ratcliffe

Our hopes are that this development will enable us to more strategically continue build upon the changes and monitoring to ensure the school is providing the best possible opportunities for all our children.

As part of her new role, Mrs. Cains will be taking on the following responsibilities:

• Home learning and communication
• Support staff CPD and appraisals
• Staff wellbeing

If anyone has any of the following that they no longer need, we would really appreciate any donations to school:

• Large piece of MDF/Plywood for the Summer Fayre
  • We would need this as soon as possible so that it can be decorated with the winner design from the competition
• Rocks for pond
  • Large and small
• Balance bikes/scooters/tricycles or similar
• Bike Helmets
• Green football socks and black shorts
  • These could be school’s – as we are missing lots

If anyone has any of the above and happy to donate, please email admin@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk.

Socks/shorts can be sent in with children.

School annual mid-year reports were sent out with children today for children in Years 1 to 6. Reception reports will come at the end of the year.

A parent-feedback session will be available for all parents next half term. However, if parents wish to discuss any aspects within their child(ren)’s reports, please feel free to organise a meeting with your child(ren)’s class teacher via class emails or contacting the school office.

Please note that the children that were in Bees last term (Year 4/5), their reports were written by Mrs. Norman – and, therefore, class teachers (Year 4s – Mrs. Heath / Year 5s – Mrs. Cains) may not be able to answer all questions to what has been written on the report, but they would be more than happy to discuss things regarding your child(ren)’s current progress.

Please see below regarding an art/design competition for all children ahead of this year’s summer fayre:

School fete competition letter

Template – Summer Fayre Stand-in Photo

A paper copy of this letter and the template will be sent home with each child very soon.

As part of our approach in trying to maximise opportunites of physical activity for children, we would massively appreciate in as many parents as possible completing the following survey: https://forms.office.com/e/h4jb4gTg2G.

Please see below regarding drop-in sessions from Shropshire Council regarding SEND:

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.

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.

In case you have missed it, the term dates for next academic year (2026-27) are available on our term dates page.

For ease, here there are as image and pdf:

Brown Clee-term-dates-2026-2027

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.

Please see below a letter with potentially useful information ahead of this summer term: Welcome Back Letter (Apr)

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).

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.

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

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!).

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.

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!).

Congratulations to Sarah – who was the winner of FOBCS’s Easter Hamper with her winning guess of “Chloe”.

A big thank you to FOBCS (Friends Of Brown Clee School | Facebook) for organising the competition – and Nicola Clarke (Mollabells | Facebook) for donating the hamper!

Afterschool Clubs – Sum (1) 26

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.

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).

Just a very quick message with some reminders and new information regarding events next week.

Monday 23rd March – 14:15-15:00 – Easter Service
Please see previous post for further details: Easter Service

All week (23rd March – 27th March) – Cake Sale
The Year 6 Bronze Ambassadors and School Council want to raise some money for some new bikes/scooters for KS1 – who use these during some of the Bronze Ambassador breaktime clubs.

Cakes will be available to be bought during morning break and after school. The Y6s will be aiming to do this throughout the whole week, but they will need to see how this goes throughout the week.

Children do not need to bring in cakes for donation, but they will need to bring in money if they wish to buy a cake during the school day or after school.

Thursday 23rd March – Reception and KS1 – Easter Parent Cake/Coffee Morning
Please see previous post for further details: Reception and KS1 – Easter Parent Cake/Coffee Morning – Brown Clee CE Primary School

Friday 27rd March – Orienteering Easter Egg Hunt
Similar to last year’s event, we will be having a whole-school orienteering team event – with Easter Eggs for each group (donated by FOBCS).

Next Thursday (26th March), we’d like to invite all parents/carers (and/or granparents) of pupils in reception and KS1 (i.e. Fireflies and Grasshoppers) to join their children for a coffee/tea and cake morning from 09:30 until10:30.

If you do wish to join us, please let us know by filling in this form (Reception and KS1 – Easter parent tea/coffee and cake morning – Thursday 26th March – Fill in form) so we have an idea of how many to cater for.

We will be looking at hosting a KS2 version of this in the summer term.