Shropshire will again be running the government’s Holiday Activities and Food Programme during the Easter holidays. Children in receipt of Free School Meals can access these activities for free by using the unique code for our school which has been e-mailed to them today.
Other children are also welcome to join many of the sessions for a small fee and you will find further information in the HAF Spring 2023 booklet below.

HAF Spring 2023 What’s On_web

We would like to thank all the parents, grandparents, sisters, uncles, aunts and family members who joined us this afternoon for World Book Day!  We have had a wonderful day full of reading and stories, as well as book-based activities.  The highlight was this afternoon when families joined us for a BIG read…

We also shared a presentation about World Book Day and their mission to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. We also shared the fact that reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success.

World Book Day Presentation

IMPORTANCE OF READING

What’s your favourite children’s picture book?  

Don’t forget to join us on Thursday at 2pm, along with your favourite picture book, as all parents are welcome to join their child to enjoy sharing your favourite story together in the classroom.

You can then join us at 2.30pm for a special World Book Day Assembly in the school hall!

We are really sorry to see Mrs Morris leave us today!  She has been a brilliant teacher of the Fireflies on Fridays and has added so much as part of the Brown Clee Team.  We would like to wish her all the best in the future and say a massive THANK YOU for all she has done to teach, nurture and care for the children in the Fireflies.

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After half term, Mrs Fox will be teaching the Fireflies for a few weeks until our new Fireflies Friday, Mrs Lister, starts – and we look forwards to welcoming Mrs Lister to our team!

The Parenting Team at Shropshire Council will be running a Working on your Relationship courses starting in March which runs for 4 weeks. This workshop looks at relationships, their dynamics, impacts and how we can improve them. For more details please see the attached poster.

Working on your relationship

We believe that every day is World Book Day as reading is the key to future success – but celebrating Books on Thursday 2nd March is one way to ensure we promote the importance and love of reading.  So the staff and children have planned a day full of activities and we also want parents to be involved too!.

The day will be one that is filled with READING – lots of it and lots of talking about books and stories.  There will be Buddy Reading, writing about books, competitions and a special assembly in the afternoon where parents are invited to join us to hear some children reading excerpts from their favourite books, hear about the activities of the day and share some of our favourite stories.  The Assembly will be at 2.30pm in the school hall, but before that we also want to invite parents to join their child/children in class by bringing in their own favourite picture book and share it with their child in school.  So if you wish to join your child on World Book Day, come along at 2pm with your favourite picture book and enjoy sharing it with your child!

We are also inviting children to create a craft character from one of their favourite books and bring it in from home – in the past we have had vegetable characters, but this year we are opening it up to being any sort of craftwork – children can be as creative and inventive as they wish – as long as they can be carried into school!  They will be on display in the hall so everyone can see them in the assembly.

We would also like to continue to support Birmingham Children’s Hospital as they are doing such a fantastic job of treating and supporting Jake and his family – so if children wish to wear their own clothes, or dress up as their favourite story character, or wear blue for Jake they can do – as long as they make a small donation to charity.

This week in assemblies we have been talking about books!  We have shared some of our favourites and enjoyed listening to a different story each day.  Here is the list of some of our favourite books – which we thoroughly recommend you share!  The children were fantastic at giving us all their reviews and reasons for why we should read them.

Please see the poster below with information about the Brown Clee Care and Share Pantry which is a partnership between Brown Clee Patients Group, Oak Farm/Bethphage and Bridgnorth Food Bank. This is where you can make donations, if you are able, of packaged, bottled, dried or canned foods and also toiletries or alternatively if you need their help The Pantry will be inside the entrance to Oak Farm (see the poster for opening days and times).

Brown Clee Care & Share Pantry

We are boxing and and posting the pants for Karibuni Children at the end of this week, as Joy Murphy, our friendly Trustee is heading out to Kenya on the 12th February and will be hand delivering them to the children at the Wesley Empowerment Centre.

So far we have collected 155 pairs of pants for the children but it would be great to be able to increase the amount.

We are also going to be sending some pictures and messages as we have a link with the Social Worker who works directly with the project so that we can really strengthen the link – so if children wished to send cards, pictures or messages they are more than welcome to do so!