Following our inspection carried out by Ofsted on 8th May, our final report was published yesterday. We are delighted to announce that the school remains to be considered a good school – with the inspectors particularly recognising the atmosphere of togetherness that permeates throughout the school, the pride the children have in attending Brown Clee and the appeciation that they have for the way in which they are cared for.

This inspection was an “ungraded inspection” – which means that it would not have resulted in individual graded judgements but focused on determining whether the school remained the same grade as at the school’s previous graded inspection (Sept 2014). If the inspectorate team had any significant concerns during this inspections, they would have either turned the inspection into an immediate 2-day graded inspection or would have come back in 1 to 2 years time to carry out out a full 2-day graded inspection. See further information on graded and ungraded inspections. They were, however, very pleased with what they saw, and their next visit will likely be in around 4 years’ time.

If you would like to see the full details of the report (or see any previous reports), they can be found here: https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/123532

Please see below the letter that went out with KS2 children this week regarding this year’s performance:

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We will discuss costumes in more detail with children after half-term.

Tamsyn is currently raising money for the Little Princess Trust.

“The Little Princess Trust provides real hair wigs, free of charge, to children and young people who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment or to other conditions such as Alopecia.

The charity is also one of the largest funders of childhood cancer research in the UK.

The Little Princess Trust relies solely on the generosity of its wonderful supporters who help the charity give Hair and Hope to so many children and young people with cancer each year.

Tamsyn has decided to cut her long hair to send off to make a wig for a child that needs one and is fund raising to cover the cost of making the real hair wig for a child in need of one

Chill salon at 46 Whitburn street will be cutting it at 10am on Saturday 29th June if anyone wants to be there.”

If you would like to donate, please follow the following link.

We are beginning to set up a second-hand uniform scheme via our PTA (FOBCS).

If any parents have any second-hand uniform that they would like to donate, please bring these into school office, and we will start building a bank of uniform.

We will take old as well as the new active uniform.

More details on how to purchase second-hand uniform will become available once this has been fully set up.

As mentioned in a previous post (https://browncleeschool.org.uk/important-dates-this-term/), Sports day will take place on 3rd July.

This year, the event will be slightly bigger than previous years – and will begin at 10:00am and finish at the end of the school day (15:15).

The morning will comprise of children competing in teams in a variety of different activities in rotating stations. We will then have lunch (where children and spectators can eat together). After lunch, there will be a series of different running races and presentation at the end. Spectators can attend any individual parts of the day – or the whole day.

More specific information for the children will come nearer the date.