Unfortunately, emails are not being delivered to specific email accounts when we are sending out emails. These seemed to almost all be gmail accounts.

This is the following message that we are receiving when attempting to email these accounts:

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Your message wasn’t delivered. Despite repeated attempts to deliver your message, the recipient’s email system refused to accept a connection from your email system.

Contact the recipient by some other means (by phone, for example) and ask them to tell their email admin that it appears that their email system is refusing connections from your email server. Give them the error details shown below. It’s likely that the recipient’s email admin is the only one who can fix this problem.

For Email Admins
No connection could be made because the target computer actively refused it. This usually results from trying to connect to a service that is inactive on the remote host – that is, one with no server application running. For more information and tips to fix this issue see this article: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=389361

We have had some queries about how to use TTRS, Numbots and Spelling Shed, which are 3 APPS that children can use to help them with retaining their spellings and number facts – which is the only home learning we ask for alongside reading.

These are guides for parents:

TTRS :

Numbots:

Spelling Shed: Guide for ParentsGuide for Parents

Remember, home learning is purely to help children remember and retain number facts and spellings – and little and often is best eg 3 minutes four to five times a week. We also would recommend that children are reading daily, as this is one of the biggest precursors to future success.

St John the Baptist Church in Ditton Priors will be holding their annual Christingle Service on Sunday 3rd December at 4pm. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Our box of poppies has been delivered and is in Reception if anyone would like to purchase a Poppy. We have some of the new all paper poppies alongside the tradition ones and sticky ones for the children. There are some crosses for graves which are being kept in the office if you would like one of these.

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  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 January 2024, fixed term to August 2024 in the first instance

7:40am-8:45am Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
3:15pm-5.30 pm Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Term time only
£10.60 per hour

If you are interested then please contact the School Office.

Job Description

Person Specification

If we are unable to appoint to this position then we might be unable to provide wrap-around care on Wednesdays to Fridays – so please do share.

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

Laura has asked us to let you know that the preschool staff will be outside Little Explorers from 3pm tomorrow selling disco tickets if you wanted to purchase one. The disco is being held in the village hall and is for children age 2 to 11 (they must be accompanied by an adult). The tickets cost £5 and include drinks and snacks. There will be pumpkin carving on the night at a cost of £1.

We are looking forward to welcoming Chris Maddox tomorrow morning who will be taking the individual and sibling photos.  If you would like your pre-school child to be in the photo along with your school-aged child, please bring them along at 9am, and we will ensure these photos are taken first.

Can all children please be wearing the full Active Uniform (Green T-Shirt, Black logo’d sports top and plain black sports bottoms) please.

The Admissions Team at Shropshire Council have asked us to share this message –

The closing date for secondary applications is 31 October 2023 which falls in the half-term holidays. If you have not already done so, we encourage you to submit an application as soon as possible but before the deadline date. This will ensure that if you encounter any problems, you can be supported/helped and to submit your application on time. There is no grace period for late applications. The link for the website is – Transferring to secondary school | Shropshire Council

The School Admissions Team strongly encourage parents to name three preferences, particularly if you reside in the Shrewsbury area. Please see the Parents’ Guide to Education in Shropshire Booklet for further information. The link to the document is Parents’ guide to education | Shropshire Council

If you have already made an application and wish to add additional preferences please contact school-admissions@shropshire.gov.uk