Headteacher Message
Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome back to the spring term! I hope you all had a restful break and are as excited as we are to dive into another term filled with learning and growth. The lovely weather we’ve had certainly feels more like spring, and is giving everyone a welcome boost to their spirits.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to meet with their children’s teachers this week: it’s always a pleasure to be able to share your children’s achievements with you, and your involvement is greatly appreciated. These meetings are invaluable in helping us understand how we can best support your child’s educational journey.
It’s been a busy week already, with everyone ready to get stuck into another jam-packed term. The enthusiasm and energy from everyone has been fantastic, and we are all looking forward to the exciting events and activities planned for the coming weeks.
Next week, we have World Book Week, which promises to be a highlight of the term. There are plenty of exciting activities planned, including a non-uniform day on Thursday. I look forward to seeing all the creative costumes, but please feel free to take it easy and just come in something comfortable if you prefer. The most important thing is that everyone enjoys the day and participates in the fun.
Enjoy your weekends!
Best regards,
Tom Larkham
Headteacher
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Peter Pan Tickets
Our School Production of Peter Pan takes place on Thursday 13th March and Friday 14th March showing at 6.30pm.
Tickets cost £6 per adult and child and can be purchased on Arbor, School Shop.
Arbor School Shop does not give a confirmation following payment so please trust that it has gone through or check in ‘Invoices’ for a record of purchase.
Refreshments will be available on arrival and during the interval for fundraising to school. (cash please)
Tickets will be available to purchase to cast member’s families on Monday 24th February first. Any remaining tickets will be on sale to the school population from Monday 3rd March.
What’s on- TUESDAY 4th MARCH
EYFS & KS1 Author Visit Linda Whipp
Linda will be reading A Dormouse’s Tale. If your child would like a signed copy to take home then you are able to purchase one from Linda’s website HERE
If you apply this code at the checkout stage it will take off the postage costs. Code is: COLE2025. Orders should be received by Sunday 2nd March.
You will get an automatic confirmation email that shows their address as the delivery address, but Linda will bring these along on the day for the children.
What’s on-WEDNESDAY 5th MARCH
Weeberts World Visit for Year 3 Classes
Weeberts World transform scrap metal into robot sculptures and their robot sculptures into stories. They will be visiting year 3 to read their Robot Story , Weebert has an Adventure and staying around to show off their Robot Sculptures at our Book Fair. At the Fair, they will have Weeberts merchandise including books and water bottles for sale.
Book Fair
Please pop in to the School Hall after school-the back doors will be open.
We will have some stalls for you to shop including Usborne Books (cash & card accepted), a bargain book stall (cash only) and sweet stall (£1 a bag)
Usborne Books will be helping us to purchase new books for school and the virtual book fair is live here if you wish to order at home. This is open until 5pm on Monday 10th March
USBORNE ONLINE FAIR LINK
All purchases made through this link and at the book fair will add up and increase the amount of free books school will receive.
What’s on – THURSDAY 6th MARCH
WORLD BOOK DAY
Non-Uniform– Children may come to school dressed to represent their favourite book or character. We understand that some children feel uncomfortable wearing fancy dress. They may choose to wear their own comfy reading clothes instead – we want all children to enjoy the day.
Year 2 Author Trip
Year 2 will be going on a trip to Presfelde School for an Author Event and will need to arrive at school at an earlier time for the Coach. See separate letter.
Special Lunch Menu
Also taking place, Year 4 Drama workshop all day, Tag Rugby and Netball Fixture.
What’s on – FRIDAY 7th MARCH
Yr 4 Choral Day Trip @ Moreton Hall
Pop-Up Bookshop
Over Thursday & Friday pupils will each bring home a World Book Day 2025 book.
KS2 Local Storyteller Jake Evans visit
Saturday 8th March-All day Rehearsal for Peter Pan cast from 9:00 – 3:00pm (children may bring a device/reading book and packed lunch)
Year 3 Judaism workshop 2025
Today, year 3 had a Judaism themed RE workshop where they had the valuable chance to extend their existing knowledge about Jewish culture, tradition, festivals, practices and worship. They looked at various Jewish artefacts, learnt some Hebrew words, listened to prayers from the ‘Holy Torah’ and also got a chance to question the Jewish visitors face to face.
Flaxmill Maltings Collaborative Art Project
Year 3 had a fun-filled visit from storyteller Jake Evans and his artist mum Sarah Evans. We heard wild tales of mountains, thunderstorms, clouds and bird kings followed by a creative drawing workshop. Our drawings will contribute towards a collaborative local area project to go on display at the Flaxmill Maltings. We can’t wait to see our work featured in the huge outdoor mural that also includes work created by many other artists and children from around Shropshire. How exciting!
Gardening Club set to work
Year 4 Gardening Club set to work this week with Kaspar from The Street Allotment Project.
What the Street Allotment Team don’t know about growing vegetables isn’t worth knowing, they are true community heroes tending to community veg plots all over town growing free food for everyone.
They will be teaching the children all about sustainability and growing food organically.
We have 3 more spaces available on this club if anyone else wants to join.
A Harpist visits Music Club
Celtic Saints Music Club started this week with a visit from local harpist Gill Madley. The children learnt about St David’s Day and sang a Welsh lullaby ‘Heno, Heno’ with lots of triangles. They all enjoyed having a go on the triple harp and making paper leeks with St David’s last words: “Be joyful, keep the faith, do the little things in life”. Well done everyone!
Year 2 Football Team Triumphs
A very big well done to some of our Year 2 children, who took part in an exciting football competition this afternoon. The boys played exceptionally well, demonstrating fantastic teamwork, skill, and sportsmanship throughout the event.
Their hard work and determination paid off as they proudly walked away with the 1st place trophy! The boys were absolutely thrilled with their victory, and it was such a wonderful experience for them.
Well done, boys! We are so incredibly proud of you all. Keep up the amazing work!
Swimming Gala
A huge congratulations to all the children who participated in this week’s swimming gala! They were an absolute joy to accompany and represented Coleham in the best way possible. The team spirit on display was fantastic, with everyone cheering each other on and showing great support throughout the event.
We came away with a handful of 1st, 2nd, and 4th place finishes, but our lucky number turned out to be 3, as we secured 3rd place in most of our races and even placed 3rd overall!
Well done to all the swimmers from Coleham – I was incredibly impressed with your competitive swimming abilities!
