We have half term holiday next week and return to school on Monday 25th February. We hope that everyone enjoys the break.

On Wednesday morning children in Reception and Year 1 took part in a fundraising, running event working as a team to collect the dragon’s treasure. We hope you will agree that they did a great job. Well done to everyone took part.

Congratulations also, to pupils in Years 2 – 6 who took part in Coalbrookdale & Ironbridge’s first ever fun run, around the Regatta Field and Dale End Park, on Thursday afternoon. There was a fantastic atmosphere, with everyone enjoying a run in the sunshine to raise money for the NSPCC.

A big thank you to Mrs Cameron and Mr Lammiman for helping Mrs Bletcher to mark out the course Thursday morning.

Children should return their sponsorship money to their class teacher by Friday 1st March.

Parents will be aware that Telford & Wrekin Council were here last week changing the road markings in front of the school. Parents are reminded that they should not park on the double yellow or zig-zag lines. Please be considerate of local residents by not parking across their driveways. There have been a number of incidents this week where they have been unable to enter/exit their properties safely.

Free car parking permits are available from Telford & Wrekin Council (Ph: 01952 384 000) to park in Dale End and Wharfage car parks at school drop-off and pick-up times.

After half term we will be welcoming visitors from Estonia, Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Spain as part of our British Council Funded Erasmus Project. This project is to learn about robotics in the class room and we are having a robotics day on Tuesday 26th February in school.

If your child is in Year 4 and you are able to help with the project on Tuesday afternoon (from 1.15pm) please contact Mr Rutherford.

There will be no Cool Kids on Monday 25th February and Tuesday 26th February. This will resume on Thursday 28th February.

Due to inter-school competitions matches there will be no Girls Football Club on 28th February or 7th March. Club will resume on 14th March.

Please remember to re-sign your child up to after school clubs running after half term. There are still spaces on Gymnastics (Years 1 – 4; Tuesdays), Cooking (Year 1; Thursdays), Mixed Football (Years 1 – 3; Thursdays) and Tag Rugby (Years 3 – 6; Fridays).

Telford & Wrekin Catering have advised that school dinners will increase to £2.30 from Monday 1st April.

We would like to invite parents of children in Year 1 and Reception to join their child for lunch (see dates below). If you would like to join your child please return £2.90 in an envelope with your child’s name and “Parent Lunch” on the front and please post it in the red dinner money box outside the school office by the date indicated. If you require a vegetarian meal please put this information on the envelope. Lunch will be served at 12.05pm

Wednesday 13th March – Year 1 parents (money to be paid by 8th March)
Wednesday 3rd April – Reception parents (money to be paid by 29th March)

Once lunch has finished parents are asked to say goodbye to their child and leave school premises, not go to the child’s classroom or on to the playground.

On the 8th February 2019, Year 5 and Year 6 took part in the Quick Sticks Hockey Finals against 5 teams. We were split into two teams Coalbrookdale 1 and 2. Coalbrookdale 1 won all 5 matches but, sadly Coalbrookdale 2 lost all 5 matches. Coalbrookdale 1 played Coalbrookdale 2 and the score was 4-1 to Coalbrookdale 1. After all of our matches, we went to the ceremony and Coalbrookdale 2 came 5th and Coalbrookdale 1 came 1st and won a gold medal.

Year5 and 6 would like to thank Miss B for all her effort organising our hockey and bringing home a victory for Coalbrookdale.

By Tilly, Eve & Nell

The Telford Cross Country Races start on Wednesday, 27th March and run for three weeks. Children do not have to be regular runners with the Cross Country Club to participate in the races.

Races are as follows:

Wednesday, 27th March – Chetwynd Park, Newport (off the B5062 between Edgmond and Newport)
Wednesday, 3rd April – Telford Town Park (park in Town Centre car parks)
Wednesday, 10th April – Chetwynd Park, Newport (on the B5062 between Edgmond and Newport)

This year we have organised a bus to take children to the races at Chetwynd Park. More details about this and arrangements for all the races will be sent out after half term.

Please note there will be no Cross Country Club while the races are on.

Each Friday we have a Shining Stars assembly where children from each class are given a Head teacher’s award for good behaviour or work in class. This week’s Shining Stars are:

Thomas for working beautifully, showing co-operation, listening to others and showing great imagination
Joshua M for working beautifully, showing co-operation, listening to others and showing great imagination
Sophia for super reading
Evie for super reading
Immy M for beautiful reading this week
Maggie for practising her writing skills at home
Liam for being an excellent contributor to our E-safety discussions
Amelie for being a wonderful leader of a group to make a successful 3D animation showing the impact of cyber-bullying
Jax for his fantastic general knowledge
Emme for her excellent manners and work ethic
Oliver C for always being enthusiastic about his learning
Harley for being completely independent when creating his web page about E-safety
Leilen for working hard at his spellings
George O for always trying his best

Come for a chat and time out on the 1st & 3rd Friday of each month (term time only), 9.00 am till 11.00am at Coalbrookdale Community Centre. Enjoy coffee/tea/squash and homemade cakes. Come with or without children. Toys will be provided. Look forward to seeing you there. For further details contact Margaret Darlington on 01952 433480 or email cb.dale@btinternet.com. The dates next half term will be 1st March, 15th March and 5th April 2019.

18th – 22nd February 2019 Half Term holiday
Wednesday 13th March Year 1 Parents Lunch (12.05pm)
Wednesday 27th March 2019 Telford Schools Cross Country Race – Chetwynd Deer Park
Wednesday 3rd April 2019 Reception Parents Lunch (12.05pm)
Wednesday 3rd April 2019 Telford Schools Cross Country Race – Telford Town Park
Wednesday 10th April 2019 Telford Schools Cross Country Race – Chetwynd Deer Park
Friday 12th April 2019 Last day of Spring Term
15th – 26th April 2019 Easter Holidays
Monday 29th April 2019 Summer Term starts
Monday 6th May 2019 May Day Bank Holiday
27th – 31st May 2019 Half Term
Monday 3rd June 2019 PD Day – School closed to children
Friday 19th July 2019 Last day of Summer Term
22nd July – 30th August 2019 Summer Holidays
Monday 2nd September 2019 PD Day – School closed to children
Tuesday 3rd September 2019 Autumn Term starts