Thank you to all the parents who supported and encouraged the children at Sports Day this week. The children enjoyed themselves and competed with enthusiasm, showed good sportsmanship and supported their teams and special thank you to the Year 6’s help with the younger children. Congratulations to Severn House who won on the day.

Congratulations to Elliott Jones who won the Y5/6 marathon, Oliver Bagnall who won the Year 3/4 marathon and Mrs Thompson and Mr Roberts who won the parent races.

We are delighted to announce that we have again achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2017/18 academic year. The School Games Mark is a Government led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

We participated in 42 different competitions during the year. Our sporting achievements this year include winning the Year 5/6 Boys Crossbar Cup, the Year 5/6 Girls Crossbar plate, our swimmers representing the school at the County Swimming Gala and English Schools Swimming Relays, coming second in Telford & Wrekin in the cross country schools competition, second in the U11 County Hockey competition and teams progressing through to the Shropshire Winter and Summer Games to represent T&W Burton Borough in hockey, cross country, orienteering and dodgeball.

With a total of 124 (over 56%) children competing in local, regional and national inter-school competitions this year, we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport.

A special thanks to Mrs Bletcher for all her work behind the scenes in liaising with Telford & Wrekin Sports Partnership and accompanying the children to so many of the competitions. Thank you also the parents who get the children to events and support them and of course to the children for their enthusiasm and great sportsmanship.

School uniform is a royal blue sweatshirt or cardigan; royal blue polo shirt (these items with the school logo are available from the school office) or white/blue polo shirt or shirt; dark grey or black skirt or trousers; blue check dress for girls in summer; black, grey or white socks and dark, single coloured footwear (not trainers).

PE uniform is a white t-shirt (these are available from the school office with the school logo), navy or black shorts, skort or knee length leggings and trainers or black plimsolls/pumps. NO football tops or sportswear.

NO jewellery apart from stud earrings should be worn. Children should not bring in toys as these can get lost or damaged.

Please ensure all items brought to school are named. This includes school uniform, coats, PE kit, shoes, trainers’, school bags and lunch boxes. Any items put in lost property without a name will be sent for recycling at the end of each term.

All children are expected to be dressed sensibly and smartly which we feel contributes towards the school’s ethos and image.

Don’t forget to change the class emails you receive as your child/ren move up a year group in September. At the very bottom of any school email you have received you can find a link named ‘update subscription preferences’. Click this, amend the tick boxes for the class emails you wish to receive and then click ‘Update profile’. It is very easy and quick to do and will ensure you receive the correct class emails.

Thank you to everyone who brought in their £1.00 for not wearing school uniform yesterday. We raised a fantastic £180.00for the Ben Corfield Football Fund.

We hope you all have an enjoyable summer and we look forward to seeing you back in the Autumn Term which begins on Tuesday, 4th September.

PD Day Monday, 3rd September 2018
Autumn Term begins Tuesday, 4th September 2018
PD Day Friday, 26th October 2018
Half Term Monday, 28th October – Friday, 1st November 2018
Term Ends Friday, 20th December 2018

PD Day Monday, 8th January 2019
Spring Term begins Tuesday, 9th January 2019
Half Term Monday, 18th February – Friday, 22nd February 2019
Term Ends Friday, 12th April 2019

Summer Term begins Monday, 29th April 2019
May Day Monday, 6th May 2019
Half Term Monday, 27th May – Friday, 31st May 2019
PD Day Monday, 3rd June 2019
Term Ends Friday, 19th July 2019
PD Day Monday, 22nd July 2019

On Saturday 21st July (10am to 4pm at Beeches Field Local Nature Reserve (access from Lincoln Hill or Orchard Lane)) there is a free family event to take photos and write a line of text or a Haiku poem to match the photo. These will be combined on a computer and printed as a postcard for you to take away.

On Tuesday 24 July, 1pm to 3pm Beeches Field Local Nature Reserve (accessed from Lincoln Hill or Orchard Lane) come along to discover what lives beneath the surface of Beeches Pond. There may be dragons! Free event.