The children are now in first place….can we stay there until 7.30pm tonight?!

Brown Clee have entered the Times Tables Rock Stars Maths Week England national competition called ‘England Rocks’ for the past 3 years, and if you look at the wall in Reception you will see the success that the children have had!
This week sees their 4th attempt to reach the wall of fame, and today is the final day of the competition….at the moment the school is in 2nd place!

The winning school is the one with the highest average number of correct answers per student, and the competition closes at 7.30pm today! There is a 60 minute limit playtime per student each day so we really need every point we can get.

Well done Brown Clee….this just shows what you can do if you work together…let’s show that team-spirit and really all put our 60 minutes in and see if we can earn another certificate….there is a place on the wall waiting!

Families in receipt of Free School Meals are able to access a programme of free activities during the Christmas holidays, an information leaflet with a unique code will be sent out nearer the time.

Below is a copy of the leaflet showing what activities are being offered along with links to a promotional video and to the Shropshire Council HAF programme. Many of the activities also include paid for places and details of how these can be booked can be found on the activity information page.

HAF WINTER 2022 What’s On

https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/schools-and-education/holiday-activities-and-food-programme-haf/

Thank you to parents who attended our Parent Feedback sessions last week; we hope you found them informative and helpful.  We really value the partnership between home and school, as it is invaluable in order to help children be the best they can be.

We handed out the following leaflet regarding reading at home – and in case parents have misplaced it, or were unable to attend the sessions, here it is again.  We can not stress enough how important it is that children read every day!  Reading impacts learning across all subjects, and yes we teach reading, and practice it in school – but it is impossible to hear children all read individually.

If children are not fluent readers it can have significant negative impact on their future – so please, have a read of this leaflet and then open a book and read with your child!  C

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.

fireworks poster

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.

AutumnTerm 2022 10 November 2022

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.