1 year ago
Posted on 03rd Jul 2025 by Miss Othen

Garden Bar this Saturday!

GARDEN BAR VIBES 🔥🍸
Join us on Saturday in our historic garden & folly for a proper summer evening!

Expect:
🍸 Gindifferent Gin Bar
🍷 Paso Primero Wines
🍕 Another One Bites the Crust Pizza
🔥 Fire pits & toasted marshmallows
🎶 Great drinks, food, and chilled-out vibes from 6–10pm
🎟 £3 entry (Adults Only)

Open to the general public, please pop in and support us.

Everybody is welcome to our perfect little Shrewsbury evening out. See you there?

1 year ago
Posted on 03rd Jul 2025 by Miss Othen

KS2 Disco on Thursday

Get your glam on!

Please purchase tickets on Arbor School Shop before Thursday as this will create registers for the children attending.

Reduced tickets of 50p for Free School Meal families and for those attending After School Club on Thursday are also available on Arbor School Shop.

Money is not required for the Disco. A DJ is booked for the school hall, it will be crowded and noisy!

The bottom corner gate will open at 4:45pm so the children can form class lines on the KS1 bottom playground to be checked in before heading into the Disco.

Collection will also be from this playground. All children must be collected by an adult and cannot walk home alone.

Parent volunteers are welcome to help us supervise on the night, please come along if you wish to help.

1 year ago
Posted on 03rd Jul 2025 by Miss Othen

What’s on next week?

Monday

Assembly announcement-House Ice-Cream Competition Winners

School Reports will be coming home with your child.

Lions Flaxmill Trip

Whales Swimming

Tuesday

Dolphins trip to Reabrook Valley

Year 6 Leavers Brunch @ Hickories FREE EVENT IN SCHOOL TIME

Turtles Swimming

EYFS Alice Party

A rather peculiar day with Alice and The Mad Hatter and a host of fun activities!

Come to school dressed in crazy colourful outfits, odd socks, back to front clothes, anything goes!

An end of year celebration for Foxes and Badgers. You’ve had a fantastic year!

Wednesday

Transition Day in new classes for whole school

Thursday

Whales Trip Reabrook Valley

KS2 School Disco

Friday

Lions Swimming

Year 6 Leavers Assembly @ 2:00pm

Ice-Cream Sales after School

1 year ago
Posted on 02nd Jul 2025 by Miss Othen

Martha hears back from Jellycat

Martha enjoys collecting Jellycat soft toys and has quite the collection at home! She had a new idea for a Blobfish soft toy and so wrote a letter to tell them! She was delighted when they wrote back! A lovely surprise in the school post, well done Martha.

1 year ago
Posted on 02nd Jul 2025 by Miss Othen

E-safety Information

A simple guide to help parents navigate controls on devices at home.

Please read our Online Safety Newsletter Primary July 2025

1 year ago
Posted on 02nd Jul 2025 by Miss Othen

Josie’s flag is flying high!

Josie in Year 4 has been selected as joint winner of this year’s Shrewsbury High Street Flag Art Competition! 🌸🎨

The competition invited young artists to create collages inspired by Henri Matisse and the native flowers of Shropshire for the Shrewsbury Arts Trail.

Josie received a prize from Write Here, presented in partnership with Shrewsbury BID and Shrewsbury Town Council.

Her flag is now flying high on the High Street — a colourful and creative celebration of the flowers of Shropshire.

Read it all about it with Shropshire Live HERE.

1 year ago
Posted on 30th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Parent support

Coming up in September…

1 year ago
Posted on 30th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Supersonic Sue

Supersonic Sue visited today for a Fun Science assembly! She dazzled the children with experiments and will be back to lead Science after school clubs in September.

1 year ago
Posted on 27th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Yr 2 visit the Beavers

Year 2 visited the old River Bed, Shrewsbury Wood Lane – a special reward following our fantastic win in the Shropshire Wildlife Trust’s competition to name their beavers… Beryl and Bertie! 🦫🎉

This competition was part of a wonderful initiative by the Shropshire Wildlife Trust, in partnership with Shropshire Council, to reintroduce a family of Eurasian beavers to the Old River Bed wetlands – a beautiful and ecologically important Site of Special Scientific Interest. The beavers will help manage and restore the wetland habitat in a natural and sustainable way.

The children took part in a hands-on workshop led by the SWT team, where they learnt all about the beavers and their habitat.

Read the Shropshire Star story HERE

1 year ago
Posted on 27th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

BVAF Movement Winners

These children are winners of the Belle Vue Arts Festival Movement competition that took place on the Saturday Lets Celebrate event at Greyfriars Bridge. The children spotted 10 verbs from this year’s festival Poster and have won a £5 Gelatistry voucher. The children wondered where Miss Othen was taking them but were very excited when she told them the news.

1 year ago
Posted on 26th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Pop up Lunchtime Nutrition event

Nutritionist Hannah from Catering Academy joined us this lunchtime for a mini pop up showing the children how important it is to eat lots of fruit and vegetables, even as a sweet treat for desert.

The children tried Carrot Cake flapjacks, Chocolate & Bananna flapjacks and Beetroot Chocolate cake.

1 year ago
Posted on 26th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Coming Up soon

Tuesday 8th July-Dolphins Reabrook Trip

Tuesday 8th July – EYFS Alice Party

Thursday 10th July-Whales Reabrook Trip

Thursday 10th July– KS2 Disco @5:00pm

Thursday 17th July–EYFS Trip to Park Hall Farm

1 year ago
Posted on 26th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Garden Bar Event

🍕🔥 GARDEN BAR VIBES 🔥🍸
Join us Saturday 5th July in our historic garden & folly for a proper summer evening!

Open to the general public.

Everybody welcome to our perfect little Shrewsbury evening out. See you there?

1 year ago
Posted on 26th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Friday 4th July

1 year ago
Posted on 26th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

What’s on next week?

Monday–

Whales Swimming

Whole School Transition morning in new classes

Tuesday – Turtles Swimming

Wednesday– Yr 3 Recorder Concert for families at 2.30pm

Thursday

Leopards Trip to The Flaxmill

Area Athletics 4.30pm

Friday

Yr 3 Trip Trentham Gardens

Lions Swimming

Ice-Cream sales after school

Saturday

Garden Bar Event 6:00-10:00 pm

1 year ago
Posted on 26th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Miles raised £150!

Thanks to Miles Hunt in Year 3 for growing Dahlias from bulbs and selling them at the Belle Vue Arts Festival. Miles has raised £150 for school!! This all started with a letter to Holland and months of planting bulbs and watering them until they were finally ready for sale.

1 year ago
Posted on 25th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

GREYFRIARS win Yr 3 & 4 Sports Day!

What a great Sports Day for Years 3 & 4 – everyone did their very best and made it a close finish! Thank you again to the HUGE crowd that came along to support all the children and thank you to the wonderful work from our Year 6 Sports Leaders for running Sports Day and totting up the scores.

It was so very, very close in the end, but GREYFRIARS emerged this year’s champions by only ONE POINT!

Final standings:

1st: GREYFRIARS
2nd: Severn
3rd: Quarry
4th: Darwin

1 year ago
Posted on 24th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

SEVERN wins EYFS/KS1 Sports Day!

Huge well done to all the children in Reception, Years 1 and 2 for their excellent efforts! Thank you to the HUGE crowd that came along to support all the children. Great work from our Year 6 Sports Leaders for running Sports Day and totting up the scores.

It was close in the end, but SEVERN emerged this year’s champions. Well done all!

Final standings:

1st: SEVERN
2nd: Greyfriars
3rd: Quarry
4th: Darwin

1 year ago
Posted on 23rd Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Dental Hygiene Assembly

The school nurses visited us today and spoke to the whole school about dental hygiene and how we can look after our teeth and prevent acid erosion and tooth decay. Tooth decay is currently the most prevalent chronic disease in children so its vital we spend time talking about this. Thanks to our Teaching Assistant Miss Wisdom for organising free toothbrushes and toothpaste which have been handed out to every child to bring home.

1 year ago
Posted on 20th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

After School Club Water Fun

Wet & wild summer fun for staff and pupils at After School Club.

1 year ago
Posted on 20th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Yr 5 Geography Fieldwork

Year 5 took to the Quarry Park to do a Geography survey, they tallied the footfall of walkers and cyclists by the monument and mapped out the journey there.

1 year ago
Posted on 19th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

NEXT WEEK SPORTS DAYS @1.30pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all at our Sports days next week on the School Field!

Our Sports Days focus on our Team Houses and points from every child in every race will be totted up towards the HOUSE CUP! promoting the values of teamwork and participation so everyone feels included.

We run 3 separate Sports Days in age groups so we can comfortably accommodate all our families, extended family members and Grandparents are all welcome, the more the merrier!

Sports Day will start at 1.30pm and will finish before the end of the school day and so the pick up arrangements will remain the same as normal.

Please remember PE KITS and water bottles. (Children will be seated in the shade)

1 year ago
Posted on 19th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Miles’ fundraising for school

Miles in Year 3 wanted to help fundraise for the school Plant & Craft Fair and so took it upon himself to write a letter to a flower company in Holland asking for plant donations. Imagine our surprise when a large box from Holland arrived at school full of Dahlias!! Miles has lovingly potted all of these up for sale and will be selling them at the Belle Vue Arts Festival Open Gardens trail on SUNDAY! Do pop and see him if you can.

1 year ago
Posted on 19th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Special Menu – Wednesday

1 year ago
Posted on 18th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Fun Food Roadshow for Yr 2

Thank you to Year 2 families for joining us today for the FUN FOOD ROADSHOW!! We had a blast! Team Red Chilli made a chicken noodle dish and Team Green Peas a vegan lentil curry all with our recommended daily portion of 7 vegetables. The results were very close but Team Red Chilli just pipped it for the win! Has Ben inspired you to help cook at home?

1 year ago
Posted on 17th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Barnabas Exhibition

Miss Heap, Mrs Caldwell and Miss Othen attended the evening pre-view of Belle Vue Arts Festival Barnabas Exhibition 2025. We know the children will feel so proud seeing their work displayed amongst local Artists. Year 5’s Murmuration of Starlings installation was looking fabulous.

1 year ago
Posted on 14th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Encore Musical Theatre

The best way to end a Friday! Singing musical theatre in the outdoors! What could be better for the soul than music and nature combined. Always so much fun with Ernie from Encore Performing Arts. Ernie will be running his club with us next year.

1 year ago
Posted on 13th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Smoothie Bike

Thanks to our Catering Team for organising the Smoothie Bike visit! Some pedal Power and delicious fruit made smoothies for us all to taste. Great work from Year 6 for co-ordinating it all.

1 year ago
Posted on 12th Jun 2025 by Miss Othen

Yr 4 Tudor Day

🌹 Tudor Day was a huge success! The children enjoyed jousting, Morris dancing, designing shields, decorating Tudor rose biscuits, and visiting the ‘Coleham Globe’. A highlight was definitely putting poor Mr Karena in the stocks and throwing tomatoes at him! We finished the day by building our own Tudor-style structures in teams.

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