We are excited to share with you that, on Wednesday 15^th October, we will be welcoming Widget Workshops in to share a ‘Stone Age’ day with Year 3.

During the day, children will take part in various activities to learn more about Stone Age life including time spent in our woodland area and using Virtual Reality headsets to experience famous Stone Age locations.  The children really loved this interactive element last year.  Please let us know if you do not want your child to take part in the VR headset experience.

We will be spending part of the day in the woodland area, so please send your child in woodland work clothes (PE kit) and ensure they have their waterproofs and wellies in school.

As we have no other way of funding the workshop we would be grateful if parents can contribute £6.75 per child towards the cost of the workshop. Payment is to be made via your child’s Arbor account prior to the date of the workshop please.

We are really looking forward to sharing this experience with the year group and will be sure to upload photos of the day on Dojo after the event!

Following on from the success of last year’s trip to The Palace of Westminster, we have arranged for this year’s Year 5 pupils to take part in a similar trip this year. They will be visiting The Palace of Westminster for a guided tour of The Houses of Parliament (“HP”) followed by a ride on The London Eye. This trip links to PSHE curriculum (democracy) and Geography (exploring a city that is not local).

We will be leaving school at 6.15am prompt on the morning of Thursday 16^th October in order to get there for the allotted tour time so ask that children arrive at 6.00am that morning. We expect to leave London around 4.00pm, after the ride on the London Eye,  and expect to arrive back at school around 9.00pm. Parents will be notified via email a more accurate return time during the journey home.

Your child will need to bring a breakfast bar, a packed lunch and a packed tea along with plenty of snacks and drinks – no glass bottles or fizzy drinks please. They will need a rucksack to carry their food, their own personal water bottle AND a shop-bought disposable water bottle (personal water bottles are not permitted at Houses of Parliament due to security restrictions). Children should wear their school uniform and trainers/comfortable shoes for this trip and bring with them a light coat/waterproof jacket. No spending money is required.

Due to all bags being scanned on the way into HP, please ensure there are no metal implements (knives in particular) in your child’s bag. Plastic/wooden cutlery or “sporks” are permitted, if cutlery is required to eat their food.

If your child suffers from travel sickness, please ensure they take a tablet in the morning just before coming into school, and provide one for the return journey (to be handed directly to the class teacher/Teaching Assistant in a named envelope).

The cost of the trip is £23.50 per child. Payment for this trip should be made via your child’s Arbor account prior to the date of the trip.

In case of an emergency or medical incident during the trip please can you check that your contact details are up-to-date on Arbor prior to the trip. Thank you for your assistance.

As part of this term’s history curriculum work on The Stone Age, we have arranged for Year 3 to take part in a workshop at Shrewsbury Museum on Wednesday 1^st October, as an introduction to life in the Stone Age period.

Turtles will leave school shortly after morning registration and return in time for normal lunch break; Starfish will leave school following an early lunch and return around 3pm, for normal home time collection.

Pupils should wear school uniform and bring with them a lightweight coat/sunhat (depending on the weather forecast for that day). As they will be doing a fair amount of walking, they will also need to wear comfortable shoes or trainers. Spending money is not required for this trip.

The cost of the trip is £3.70 per pupil.  Payment should be made via your child’s Arbor account prior to the date of the trip where possible.

In case of an emergency or medical incident during the trip please can you check that your contact details are up-to-date on Arbor prior to the trip. Thank you for your assistance.

As part of this term’s Literacy ‘persuasive writing’ curriculum work, we have arranged for Year 4 to visit Telford Exotic Zoo on Friday 26^th September. During the visit each class will take part in a workshop led by Zoo staff, to find out about how the zoo cares for the animals in the zoo and their animal adoption scheme.

We will be leaving school at 9.15am and return at approximately 12.40pm.

As the children will arrive back at school after servery for hot meals has finished, your child will need to bring a packed lunch on the day, which they will eat on their return to school. Those pupils entitled to free school meals will be given a packed lunch by our school meals provider. Please also ensure that they wear school uniform and have a lightweight coat with them. We will not be visiting the souvenir shop so no additional spending money is required.

The cost of the trip is £13.45, which includes both transport and the workshop.  Payment for this trip should be made via your child’s Arbor account prior to the date of the trip.

In case of an emergency or medical incident during the trip please can you check that your contact details are up-to-date on Arbor prior to the trip. Thank you for your assistance.

Exciting RE news! Years 1, 4 and 6 will each be taking part in an African Drumming workshop on Thursday the 2nd of October. This will be a fun way of linking their knowledge and developing an understanding about different global cultural practises and traditions. This is an important part of their overall RE learning journey. The workshop will also make a nice cross-curricular link to the Black History month which beings on 1st October.

To cover the cost of the workshop we are asking for a donation of £3.00 per child, to be paid via your child’s Arbor account. Many thanks.