We were delighted to welcome Joy Murphy back to Brown Clee today – as it has been 3 years since her last visit due to Covid!  This time she brought a friend, Elaine, and they both shared with us some updates on the projects that Karibuni support in schools in Kenya.

We are also really thrilled to announce that we are linking with one particular project, – The Wesleyan Empower Project – which sponsors a number of children through education in school in an agricultural town called Njoro, in the Nkuru district.

Joy shared some photos and videos of the school in Njoro and the children, and we are looking forwards to learning more about them in the months ahead.  We are also pleased to hear that the children (and families!) really appreciated the pants that we sent over this year, and we have said we would collect more in the Autumn term – ready for Joy’s next visit in the Spring of 2023.

Here is a link to some more information from Esther, who works with Karibuni to support the children in this project:-

https://www.karibuni.org.uk/from-njoro-some-words-from-esther/

What a wonderful Sports Day! We are so proud of all of the children for their determination, speed, team-spirit, courage and motivation….everyone gave their best and had great fun!

We we’re lucky with the weather too!

We are watching the weather forecast carefully, and so far it looks like we are going to be ok for holding Sports Day on Wednesday morning – 10am to midday.

As the Commonwealth Games are taking part in Birmingham this summer, and we have been learning about the Commonwealth and the Games in assemblies at school, we thought we would make our Sports Day into a Commonwealth themed event.  So each class are going to represent a Commonwealth country – and if parents wish to join in by bringing flags of their child’s country, or wearing the national colours, please feel free to do so!

The classes have chose the following countries to represent:-

Fireflies are representing New Zealand

Grasshoppers are representing Austalia

Dragonflies are representing South Africa

Scorpions are representing The Seychelles

The Scorpions have had a great day and are back at their overnight camp. They have enjoyed a delicious tea (thank you Mrs Davies!) and after washing up and tidying up have participated in some fun team building activities.

We have received an update on the Scorpions – all are having a good time, and they have reached the top of the Longmynd and enjoyed a lunch stop with a fantastic view!

More updates will follow when we receive them!

Look who arrived at my office door today!

Our very own superhero!

We have had a great day today with all our KS1 and 2 children taking part in a class rugby workshop with a coach from Worcester Warriors.  The children learnt about the importance of teamwork, determination and resilience as well as having great fun!

You may know that the children have a choice of salad or hot vegetables at lunchtime and Pippa has asked us to share this photograph of the salad bar and to let you know that she has found since we came back after half term more of the children are choosing salad rather than hot vegetables. They are trying a wide variety of salad vegetables including celery, spring onions and radish.

We have been asked to let you know that Oak Farm will be holding Oakfest tomorrow 12pm to 4.30pm. There will be stalls, live music, displays, food and drink and a dog show. Please see the poster below for more details.

We have had a thoroughly fantastic afternoon celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee – and what an amazing turn out!  We had over 90 parents/grandparents join us for afternoon tea, as well as Jayne and Andrew from the Parish Council, who have very kindly donated a special commemorative mug for each child!

(These will be presented next half term once we have worked out a secure way to get them home!)

A massive thank you to the hard-working team of parents who took charge of co-ordinating and organising the refreshments – you did wonderful job and the gift bags for children were great!  Thank you to everyone who also donated cakes – what a fantastic array of delicious treats!

It was a lovely afternoon, and everyone had a great time – and it just shows how much we value the  partnership between school and home – a fab team!