2025 Summer #2

Year 6 SATs – Starting Monday 12 May 2025

Next week is SATs week for our Year 6 pupils, running from Monday through Thursday. Each morning, the children will sit their Key Stage 2 tests (covering English and Maths). Please mark your calendars: the tests will start on time each day from Monday to Thursday, so punctuality is important.

How You Can Support Your Child:

• Early to Bed: Ensure your child gets a good night’s sleep before each test day so they feel rested and alert.
• A Hearty Breakfast: A message has gone out to parents about an earlier school start so children can enjoy breakfast in school with their peers before tests begin. If your child would prefer to have breakfast at home, that is fine too.
• Arrive on Time: Make sure your child arrives at school no later than 8.40am.  Tests will begin at 9.00am. A calm, unhurried morning helps them start the day in a positive frame of mind.

Most importantly, please reassure your child that SATs are just one part of their learning journey. The children have been working hard in class, and we are already so proud of them. These tests are not something to worry about – they simply help show what children have learned in primary school. Encourage your child to do their best but remind them that there is no pressure. Every child is different, and SATs results won’t capture all the wonderful qualities that make them who they are.

Thank you for your support and understanding. With a good night’s sleep, a hearty breakfast, and plenty of encouragement, our Year 6 pupils will be ready to shine! Let’s make sure they feel confident and calm throughout the week. Good luck to all our Year 6s – we believe in you!

Smartphone Free Childhood

We have recently been asked by a parent to share information about the Smartphone Free Childhood campaign. As a school, we are committed to promoting children’s wellbeing and keeping them safe both in and out of school. With growing concerns around online safety, exposure to inappropriate content, and the impact of screen time on mental health, we recognise the importance of open conversations about the role of smartphones in childhood.

While we understand every family has different needs and circumstances, we support parents in making informed decisions that prioritise children’s safety, development, and wellbeing.

Smartphone Free Childhood is a movement encouraging parents to agree not to give their children smartphones until at least year nine. The more awareness there is of the harm smartphones can have on children’s mental health the less peer pressure there will be. The smartphone free childhood webpage also has lots of resources to help educate children and parents on the topic too.

Smartphone Free Childhood

Parent Online Safety Information Session

If you were unable to log in to Wednesday’s Online Safety Information session for parents, please click on the link below to the recording and presentation.:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/162KFb51uZEYDWMSWAcQBGEDoDQZ5F9lU?usp=sharing

Alternatively, you watch via a browser with the link below.

https://www.knowsleyclcs.org.uk/online-safety-parent-session-may-2025/

Friends News

Thank you for the designs for our new logo, which will be used on our social media accounts and letter heads.

Congratulations to Isaac on his winning entry and to the runners up Arthur (Yr R) and Lily.

Wonderlicious golden ticket chocolate bars

Hidden among the bars are five chocolate factory tour golden tickets and an array of other prizes.

Bars can be purchased online via the below link or send £2 per bar into school in a sealed envelope with your child’s name and class number on the outside. Sales will close at 8pm on Friday 16th May.

Bars will be distributed on Monday 19th May at the end of the day.

Friends of Coalbrookdale Wonderlicious golden ticket chocolate bars

Telford & Wrekin SEND

Please click the link below for the Telford & Wrekin SEND Family Newsletter.  This is for families of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities in Telford & Wrekin.

SEND News – SEND – Local offer

News from the parish: family worship at St Luke’s this Sunday

This Sunday 11th May, St Luke’s Ironbridge would like to welcome children and their families to a Family Worship service, 11am to 12 noon.

This week’s readings are from:

Acts 9: 36-43

Rev 6: 9 – end

John 10: 22-35

Psalm 23

The themes that come out are God as healer and shepherd whose sheep hear His voice, are known by God, and follow Him to springs of living water.

In our activity, we will decorate shepherd crook cut outs in order to help us to think about God as our shepherd.

We will also have the chance to draw and colour our own peaceful scenes of rivers and valleys, reflecting on the verse “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.”

This will be at the red activity tables at the side of the church.

Children are welcome to either sit at the tables, or sit with their families in pews.

There are also books and toys available for younger children to play with in the church.

We hope to see children and their families there, and to share refreshments after the service has finished.

Songs

Praise my soul the King of Heaven

The Lord’s my shepherd I’ll not want (Stuart Townsend version)

As the deer pants for the water.

Thine be the glory, great things He has done

Moments matter – Attendance counts

Highest class attendance for week ending 2 May:  Year 3

Most improved class attendance from the previous week:  Year 6

Community News – Basketball

Community New – Sparta Football Club