We have some exciting news that we have been keeping up our sleeves, but we now need YOUR help!

We are wanting to add some colour and brighten up the exterior of the school, and have arranged for a local artist to create a stunning external mural on the external wall on the school hall wall – so everyone who arrives at the school can see it!  At the moment the area is a bit flat!

The artist is Rory McCann – you can see his work on his website here.

We would like the mural to pictorially represent our School Vision:

We very much want the children to have an input into the art work, and as we are operating remotely at the moment we need EVERYONE’s help!  Rory has asked if children could do the following:

• Class 1 and 2 children: To write a sentence describing what they love about their local area. (If they prefer to draw their idea they can!)
• Class 3 and 4 children: To write a sentence describing something that excites them about the wider world and wider universe. 
• Year 6 children: Come up with an ambition: ideally this could be described with a single word (e.g ‘artist’ if they wanted to be an artist), but if it needs to be a few words, that’s fine.

Remember that our school vision incorporates our Christian Values, along with our motto: ASPIRE BELIEVE PERSEVERE SUCCEED and our Mission Statement is “We are a Learning Community that nurtures and empowers everyone to be the best that they can be”.

So get your thinking hats on, be creative and thoughtful and get involved – we want this fantastic project to involve all the children in the school!

We need these ideas in by Friday 12th February as Rory will be starting his artwork on 15th March – so we will all be able to see the mural developing as we hopefully return to school. Please email the sentences to admin@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk

This is YOUR opportunity to be involved in making the school look truly amazing as you approach it, with a stunning piece of artwork that represents our Vision  – please, please get involved!

Following the success of last week’s Pet Show & Tell, and appreciating how important it is for children to be able to have some form of social contact, we are holding a Whole School Show & Tell session on Monday 1st February at 1pm.

The theme will be “My Favourite Toy” and children are welcome to show and talk about the toy they like the most – the toy can be anything from a teddy bear to a train set, or an X-Box to a dolls house – whatever they like!  They could share why they like it, how often they play with it, where they got it – absolutely anything at all – or children can just join to listen and watch!  The purpose is to provide all children with the opportunity to see their classmates and friends and interact – virtually!

The link will be emailled out on Monday morning to parents’ email addresses, and we have certain guidelines that we ask you to follow to help make the session work smoothly –

• You ‘join’ the meeting in plenty of time, as with the numbers potentially being large it may not be possible to admit latecomers.
• Please ensure children are dressed and not in pyjamas.
• You select mute on joining the meeting.
• Miss Relph will be hosting the session and will manage the ‘show and telling’.
• Children will be invited to ‘show’ their toy and tell us some information about it. If there are a large number of participants we will have to limit the amount of information shared.
• To volunteer to speak we ask that parents select the ‘raise hand’ symbol on the icon bar, and then to de-select once your child has spoken.

It worked really well with the Pet Show & Tell – as long as everyone was on mute until invited to unmute!

If you haven’t used Microsoft Teams before – it is really easy to use and I have attached some simple instructions here.

Guidance on Microsoft Teams

Protocol and Communicating on Microsoft Teams