Little Explorers are holding their Christmas Fair on Saturday 26th November at Cleobury North Village Hall between 10am and 1pm and entry is free. There will be lots of stalls and also refreshments. Please see the poster below for more information or call 01746 712506.

Little Explorers Christmas Fair

Young people use the internet for a variety of activities including games, research and homework and, of course, for accessing social networking sites. Whilst they are confident with the technology children are not always able to make the right decisions about what they access, who they talk to and what they might post about themselves and others on the internet.

Our website provides lots of information and guidance on the risks involved online, along with how you can help teach your children to avoid these risks.  These can be found if you click the following link:-

We would also like to share the following guidance

Child_Online_Safety_for_Parents_guidance_booklet

At our upcoming parents feedback sessions, we will be providing further information regarding the risks involved with children and the online world.

Ditton Priors Firework Party will be held on Saturday 12th November on the village playing field. Gates open at 6pm with the fireworks at approximately 7pm. As well as fireworks there will be –

* Draught beer bar
* BBQ
* Sweet Stall
* Face painting
* Raffle
* Popcorn
* Glow stall, Starlight Balloons

and much more (see poster below for information).

It is £4 per adult and £1 per child to enter so only £10 for a family of four or £5 for a single parent.

If you or anyone else has any questions, please don’t hesitate to give Garry Aulton a call on 07890 033435.

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The Parenting Team at Shropshire Council will be delivering free Understanding Your Child and Understanding your Child SEND groups from January 2023 via Microsoft Teams. These last for 10 weeks and aim to –

* Promote understanding of children’s behaviour within the context of developmental issues
* Promote the development of parent/child relationship
* Increase confidence and self-esteem in both parents and children
* Give parents a strategy for repair when things go wrong
* Promote reflective, sensitive and effective parenting

The Understanding Your Child group begins on 20th January and the Understanding Your Child SEND group begins on 17th January, both courses are 9.30am to 11.30am.

The Parenting Team is also offering a free virtual Sleep Tight Workshop which lasts 5 weeks and covers –

* Recognising the role of sleep hygiene to improve sleep
* Identifying causes of sleep issues and appropriate practical strategies to try
* Completing sleep diaries and identifying potential sleep issues

Contact them on 01743 250950 or parenting.team@shropshire.gov.uk

More information can be found on the posters below.

UYC & SEND Groups Jan 2023 docx

Sleep Tight Workshop Poster Jan 23

Today, we had some special visitors in the form of Shropshire Music Service’s very own Rock and Pop Band.

We will be holding Parent Feedback Meetings on Thursday 10th November between 1pm and 6pm. Please see the attached letter for further details.

If you would like to book an appointment, please complete the form attached to the letter and return this to the school office by Friday 4th November, appointments will be allocated on a first come basis. Please could you return the form even if you will not be attending indicating that this is the case.

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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.

Shropshire Parenting Team have asked us to share this information with parents/carers.

There are running Understanding Your Child Groups and Sleep Tight Workshops this term and there are places remaining for these. Please see attached posters or contact them directly to find out more.

Parenting.team@shropshire.gov.uk
01743 250950

Information is also attached of their helpline.

Sleep Tight Workshop Poster_

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Helpline Poster 2022

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.