Thursday 4th January, 2024

Save the Date! Class Assemblies

Our Class Assemblies are scheduled for 2024. Children will have the opportunity to show their families what they have been learning about in class.

Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 Class Assemblies all take place this half term.

Yr 1 Hedgehogs & Mrs Young – Tue 23rd Jan

Yr 1 Squirrels & Miss Cox -Wed 24th Jan

Yr 2 Owls & Mrs Field- Tues 30th Jan

Yr 2 Rabbits & Mrs Allan – Wed 31st Jan

Yr 3 Turtles & Mrs Munns – Tue 6th Feb

Yr 3 Starfish & Miss Heap- Wed 7th Feb

Assemblies all start at 9:15am in the School Hall.

Thursday 4th January, 2024

Save the Date: International Day

International Day takes place on Tuesday 16th January.

This will be a Non-Uniform Day and the children will be able to wear cultural dress or sports clothes from any country or clothes the colour of any flag. There is no need to go to any expense, drawing a flag onto an old t-shirt is an easy idea.

We would love to host parent visitors in the classroom so you and your child can share your experiences from a different culture, country or travels. You might like to bring some photos, traditional clothes or objects to talk about. Please chat to your child’s teacher at the end of the day or contact Mrs Jasper in the school office to arrange a visit.

helen.jasper@col.318education.co.uk

We have lots of fun planned and a letter about this will come out next week.

Wednesday 3rd January, 2024

Book in your Quiz Team

Our Community Quiz is happening once again, its always lots of fun!!

Friday 26th January @7:30pm

Teams of 6 at £5 per person, cash on the night please.

Bring your own drinks and nibbles.

Book in your team with the school office or let a member of the office team know.

Email: helen.jasper@col.318education.co.uk

Everybody is welcome from the community

Parents, Staff, Governors, Grandparents, Friends & Neighbours, the more the merrier!

Wednesday 3rd January, 2024

Swimming – Year 5 Leopards

As part of the National Curriculum your child will be going to the Quarry Swimming Baths for swimming lessons. Each lesson will take place on a Friday afternoon for 5 weeks, starting 12^th January and ending 9^th February (inclusive).

Mrs Stennett will walk her class to and from The Quarry Swimming Baths for these sessions so no payment is required for this activity.

The swimming lessons take place later in the day than we would ideally have liked, but it was the only slot left available to us. It means that the children will not return to school until around 3.30pm – slightly later than normal home time. Our apologies if this causes any inconvenience.

Please could you ensure your child remembers to bring their swimming costume (no bikinis please), goggles and towel in on the day they go swimming, as they will only be disappointed if they have to stay behind or sit and watch! Thank you.

Wednesday 3rd January, 2024

Family Support

Shropshire Strengthening families has a drop in session for families to access support. Please see teh poster below.

Friday 15th December, 2023

Parent/Carer Survey

The 3-18 Education Trust has extended the survey for all schools.

If you haven’t completed it, please take the opportunity over the Christmas Holidays.

TRUST PARENT/CARER SURVEY

COLEHAM PARENT/CARER SURVEY

Thursday 14th December, 2023

Clubs for January

Our clubs for next half term are available to look over and will be released on Arbor on Monday 18th December at 6:00pm.

Please see our Clubs Page for full details:

Clubs – Coleham Primary School

Tuesday 12th December, 2023

Half Marathon 2024

Dear Parent/Guardian,

Half Marathon – Year 1 to Year 6

We are pleased to announce that Coleham School will be taking part in the Shropshire Primary Schools’ Half Marathon again this year. This event was very popular last year with our pupils with 150 taking part ranging from Year 1 to Year 6.

This is a cumulative Half Marathon (13.1 miles) where, over the course of the Spring term, children will complete the first 12 miles of the challenge. We intend on running each of these miles on a weekly basis, during break time. The children will then complete their final 1.1 miles at the West Mid Showground on Saturday 20^th April 2024 from 9am. Here they will get the full event experience including race bibs, a fully marshalled route, music and a start and finish line gantry. As they cross the finish line wearing their Half Marathon T-shirt they will be presented with their Half Marathon medal.

It is important to explain that this event is not a running race: it will not be chip-timed, nor will there be prizes for the “fastest” children. It is an inclusive personal challenge where, over a period of time, we hope they will develop a desire to exercise regularly, with no pressure to compete, whilst at the same time completing something as challenging as a Half Marathon – a wonderful achievement for everyone involved.

To compete in this event there is an entrance fee of £12 for each child entered and you must be able to commit to bringing your child to the event at the West Mid Showground. Please note your child has to be prepared to run twice a week during breaktime from Monday 19^th February to Friday 19^th April, so it is quite a commitment. This event is open to all our pupils in Year 1 to Year 6. If you would like your child to take part then please make the payment via Arbor.

The event deadline is Friday 9^th February. BUT in order for us to finalise numbers and start running our daily mile OUR deadline for entry is FRIDAY 2^nd FEBRUARY. Unfortunately, we will not be able to add any late entries after the 2^nd February as the distance will not be covered in time.

We are looking forward to being active and completing this challenge!

Many thanks,

Miss Lewis

PE Co-Ordinator

Tuesday 12th December, 2023

5% discount code for School Photographs

Tuesday 5th December, 2023

Has any of your information changed?

Has your address or telephone number changed? So we can contact you please update your details on Arbor.

When your child started with us you completed a consent form, please see attached.

Consent Form 2023

If you wish to change any of these consents please visit the school office to obtain a new form.

Thank you

Friday 1st December, 2023

Year 4 Residential Trip to PGL Boreatton Park, Baschurch: 14th – 15th March 2024

Dear Parent/Guardian,

At Coleham we are always looking for ways that we can make children’s education more exciting and interesting and also to provide a broad range of experiences for our children. We have run a residential trip for year 4 pupils for a number of years now and it has always proved to be very successful.

The positive effect that a residential visit has on children is huge – children become more confident and independent; develop stronger, more cooperative and understanding relationships with their peers; and they learn to organise themselves away from. It also enhances the children’s experiences and the school curriculum.

This year we have chosen to take the children to PGL Boreatton Park. We will be leaving school at 8.20am on the morning of Thursday 14^th March (children to be at school for 8.00am prompt please) and will return around 4pm on Friday 15^th March. Whilst there, they will take part in a variety of exciting team-building/ problem-solving activities appropriate for their age group/abilities.

The cost of the trip is £160.00 per child, including transport, accommodation, food, supervised activities, equipment and insurance. We recognise that this is a significant sum of money so have broken it down into two instalments of £80.00. We would be grateful if you could pay the first instalment by 31^st January 2024 and the remainder of the trip balance by Friday 8^th March 2024. The payments have been set up on Arbor and can be paid at your convenience any time from today’s date.

If you are worried about making full payment by the given deadline, please do come and talk to me or contact the office: we can extend the payment schedule to give you more time to cover the cost.

If your child is worried about any aspect of the residential trip, please do not worry as class teachers have plenty of time to prepare the children.

We will contact you again nearer the date of the trip to go over the finer details and address any outstanding queries you or your child may have.

This trip will be an amazing experience and we hope very much that all our Year 4 pupils will attend. If, however, your child WILL NOT be attending the trip, please do let the class teacher know as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,

Jane Hilbert

Administration Manager

Wednesday 29th November, 2023

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Wednesday 29th November, 2023

MONDAY FESTIVE BEATS WORKSHOP

Mrs Wade’s Ukulele Club is having a special Festival Beats workshop with Musician Andy Lowe next Monday 4th December.

There are 3 spaces left if any Year 2, 3 or 4 pupils wish to go along to this.

Crazy SFX and festive fun with ukes, bells and a mic! The Studio,

Time: 3.20 – 4.15 pm.

Cost: £4

To book your place contact: Mrs Wade (07910) 314269.

Tuesday 28th November, 2023

Raffle Update

Thank you so much for supporting our RAINBOW HAMPER RAFFLE!

This is the last chance to buy tickets!!

Our Raffle is drawn at 7:00pm. Who will our LUCKY winners be?

BUY TICKETS HERE

Thank you for your support

Tuesday 28th November, 2023

Next Week- Christmas Performances

Our EYFS/KS1 Nativity and KS2 Nativity concerts are always a very special occasion for us all. The singing in school sounds incredible and you will be in for a real treat! Bring your tissues as it’s always emotional when we all come together at this time of year.

Performances at Holy Trinity Church

Monday(04/12/23) 1330-1430: EYFS/1/2 Performance for EYFS parents
Tuesday(05/12/23) 1000-1100: EYFS/1/2 Performance for Year 1 parents
Tuesday(05/12/23) 1330-1430: EYFS/1/2 Performance for Year 2 parents
Thursday(07/12/23) 1000-1130: Yr 3-6 Performance for Year 3 parents
Thursday(07/12/23) 1330-1500: Yr 3-6 Performance for Year 4 parents
Friday(08/12/23) 1000-1130: Yr 3-6 Performance for Year 5 parents
Friday(08/12/23) 1330-1500: Yr 3-6 Performance for Year 6 parents

Guidance

Please aim to attend the performance set aside for your child’s year group.
For those wishing to see siblings, you may be able to see them all in one EYFS/KS1’s nativity (Monday and Tuesday) includes EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 in the same show. KS2’s Nativity (Thursday and Friday) has Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 in the same show.
Those of you with a child in each Key Stage can, of course, see both shows
The KS2 children will be performing all around the church and in the aisles, so every seat in church will have a good view, including those at the very back of the church.

Arriving early

The doors to the church will open 10 minutes before each performance.
Please do not arrive early for a good seat. The doors will not be opened early and there is not a lot of room to wait outside the hall. We need to escort all the children in beforehand through the same entrance and allowing parents in early often causes problems for the children when getting ready.
There will be teas and coffees on offer in the waiting room for those waiting to enter the church.

Photography

You are, of course, allowed to take photographs of your children performing.
Please do not, however, post these on social media as you may have other children in your photos. We will also post photos on the website and DoJo.

Church donations

Holy Trinity are finding it extremely difficult to fund the church running costs this year. We are incredibly grateful to them for allowing us to use the church again this year, despite the difficulties they are facing. As well as heating and electricity costs, they also have a leaking roof, so we are asking that parents kindly make donations on the day they visit as a way to say thank you to the wonderful people at Holy Trinity Church.

Monday 27th November, 2023

Macbeth Performance

Miss Armstrong and the Year 5/6 Drama Club will be performing Macbeth to their parents/carers/families on the last day of term.

Location: School Hall

Date: Friday 15th December

Time: @1.45pm.

Families of the cast (only) are invited to this performance.

Monday 27th November, 2023

Kitchen Job Available

We have a permanent Job in the school kitchen available. Please spread the word to anybody local that might be interested.

What’s involved? Serving dinners with a smile and loading the dishwasher after service.

Please email Chef Manager Mel or phone the school on 01743 362668 if you are interested.

An enhanced DBS check is required as part of recruitment.

Friday 24th November, 2023

Theme Menu Wednesday

Thursday 23rd November, 2023

Parent/Carer Survey

The 3-18 Education Trust has extended the survey for all schools.

If you haven’t completed it, please take the opportunity over the Christmas Holidays.

TRUST PARENT/CARER SURVEY

COLEHAM PARENT/CARER SURVEY

Thursday 23rd November, 2023

Parent Governor Election

Dear Parent/Carer,

We are writing to inform you of a vacancy for the role of parent local governor on our Local Governing Body (LGB).

The role of the LGB

The school’s LGB is responsible for providing confident and strategic leadership, and creating robust accountability, oversight and assurance for the school’s educational and financial performance. The LGB is passionate about education and committed to continuous school improvement to ensure the best possible outcomes for our pupils.

The role of a parent local governor

As a parent local governor, you’ll work with the LGB to ensure it effectively carries out the duties referred to above. You’ll also play a vital role in ensuring that the LGB is connected with, and is aware of the views of, parents and the local community.

To be a parent local governor you should have:

A strong commitment to the role and to improving outcomes for children.
Good inter-personal skills, curiosity, and a willingness to learn and develop new skills.
The specific skills required to ensure the governing board delivers effective governance.

Being a parent local governor can be demanding but very rewarding. All local governors serve a three-year term of office and under usual circumstances, can expect to spend between 10 and 20 days a year on governance duties. These include:

attending meetings of the LGB, usually outside of school hours and contributing to LGB business;
reading reports and papers and keeping up to date on the progress that the school is making; and
visiting the school from time to time during the school day.

You will have to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and sign the local governors’ Code of Conduct. A copy of the Code of Conduct, Role Description and more information about the LGB can be found on LGB’s pages of the school’s website.

We have a supportive induction process which will enable a period of settling into the role.

How to apply

If you’re interested in applying for the role, please email the Governance Professional, Carole Warner by email by 10am Friday 15th December (carole.warner@318education.co.uk).

You should also include a personal statement (approximate 250 words) to support your application. We encourage candidates to be succinct when setting out the skills, experience and attributes that they can bring to the LGB to support their application. Nominations of other parents will be accepted, but please seek their prior consent.

Applications/nominations can only be accepted from parents or carers who have children registered at the school on the day that nominations close. If we receive more applications/nominations than there are vacancies, an election will be carried out. We will inform you after the nomination deadline if we have to do this.

If you have any queries about this process or would like to find out more about the role, please contact the Chair of the LGB Mr Dave Jones (dave.jones@318education.co.uk) or the Headteacher, Mr Tom Larkham

Yours sincerely,

Mr Dave Jones Mr Tom Larkham

Chair of LGB Headteacher

Thursday 23rd November, 2023

Coleham Voices Visits

COLEHAM VOICES CHILDREN ONLY

We have been invited to sing at two events coming up.

Tuesday 5^th December at Hickory’s Restaurant

We will rehearse after school on Tuesday 5th December and staff will walk to Hickory’s Restaurant in town for a 5.30pm performance. Our singing slot will be approx. 25mins. You are most welcome to come along as a customer in the bar area and support us. If your child is attending an ADULT MUST COLLECT YOUR CHILD FROM HICKORYS AT 6 O CLOCK. The children should wear school uniform but Christmas hat/accessories would be great!

Consent Form

Parent/Carer Name…………………………………………………………………………………………….

Child Name………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

My child will be attending the Hickory’s Event and an Adult will collect them at 6:00pm.

Friday 15^th December at St. Alkmund’s Church Concert

We have been invited to take part in a Christmas concert at St. Alkmund’s Church in town SY1 1UL with Shrewsbury’s Phoenix Singers.

You will need to bring your child to St Alkmunds Church at 5pm for a quick rehearsal, the concert starts at 6pm and will last approx. 1 hour.

If you would like to attend the concert please purchase tickets from the website below:

www.phoenixsingersshrewsbury.co.uk/concerts

If your child is attending an ADULT MUST COLLECT YOUR CHILD FROM ST ALKMUNDS AT 8 O CLOCK.

The children need to be in smart school uniform. This is the last day of term, but a lovely way to celebrate the start of the holidays!

Consent Form

Parent/Carer Name…………………………………………………………………………………………….

Child Name………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

My child will be attending the St Alkmunds Concert and an Adult will collect them at 7:00pm.

Tuesday 21st November, 2023

Parent Survey

Dear Parents/Carers,

The 3-18 Education Trust have created a Parent/Carer Survey for all schools in our trust and they would very much like the views of all parents and carers. This is a multiple choice, anonymous survey.

It is important that we have a good response rate to collate as many views as possible.

We really hope that all our Parent/Carers can complete this survey-it should only take a couple of minutes of your time.

Please complete the survey below:

TRUST PARENT/CARER SURVEY

Here at Coleham we are always keen to know what we are doing well, and always keen to see where we can improve every aspect of provision. We would like to give you an opportunity to share more detailed, quality feedback for our School. There are 2 boxes on the form below: What do we do really well? and What could we improve?

Please complete the survey below:

COLEHAM PARENT/CARER FEEDBACK

The surveys close on Monday 4th December.

We will of course, share the results with you all in the New Year.

Kind Regards,

Tom Larkham

Headteacher

Sunday 19th November, 2023

Global Art Competition

Some pupils met Doodleboy Joe Whale at the Soden Gallery on Saturday to help him promote a global Art Competition!

The competition aims to celebrate creativity and pay homage to Charles Darwin.

It is free to enter and entries could be represented at the The Doodle Boy’s solo exhibition at the Soden Gallery. You could also win the trip of a lifetime! To the Galapagos Islands!

Christmas Events

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are all organised for this half term and would like to share this years Christmas Events with you.

Rainbow Hamper Raffle

We will be fundraising for school via our annual Hamper Raffle which the School Council are helping to organise. There will be 10 colourful hampers to win, packed full of Christmas treats. We would be really grateful if children could help donate an item to go inside a hamper. The ‘colour’ themes for each year group are below with some ideas.

Reception-Any thing Gold/Yellow (ideas include Crayola, M&Ms, Ferrero Rocher, white wine)

Year 1-Anything Pink (Rose wine, Marshmallows, Mr Kipling, Percy Pigs, scented candle)

Year 2- Anything Red (Wine, Maltesers, KitKats, Jammy Dodgers, Xmas socks, baubles)

Year 3- Anything Orange (Mini Chedders, Fudge, Crackers)

Year 4- Anything Green (Pringles, Matchmakers, Mint chocolates, Bubble bath)

Year 5- Anything Blue (Haribo, Roses, Milky Way, Jaffa Cakes)

Year 6-Purple (Heroes, Dairy Milk, Chocolate Fingers, Lavender toiletries)

You can be as inventive as you like and include any sweet or savoury snacks, drinks, toiletries, Christmas decorations, toys and books.

Children may take donations into class and give them to their School Councillor or Class Teacher. We will be collecting these throughout November. Thank you in advance.

Please watch this Raffle video, to tell you all about it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5OGfxCtWUY

Buying Tickets

We would love it if you and your family are able to purchase tickets. We know that Christmas brings extra costs and so there is no pressure to buy tickets: you can help our cause by sharing our video with friends and relatives. The raffle is open to anybody. Tickets cost £1 each and can be purchased via the ‘Raffall’ website, please see the link below:

Raffall Link

The “Raffall” website is easy and secure. If you would like to buy tickets, you will need to sign in with your name and email address and then click “Enter” to purchase tickets.

‘Raffall’ will draw the winners on Friday 8th December at 7pm.

Christmas Performances

Week commencing 4th December

Our EYFS/KS1 Nativity and KS2 Nativity concerts are always a very special occasion for us all. The singing in school sounds incredible and you will be in for a real treat! The performance times for parents are as follows:

Performances at Holy Trinity Church

Monday(04/12/23) 1330-1430: Performance for EYFS parents
Tuesday(05/12/23) 1000-1100: Performance for Year 1 parents
Tuesday(05/12/23) 1330-1430: Performance for Year 2 parents
Thursday(07/12/23) 1000-1130: Performance for Year 3 parents
Thursday(07/12/23) 1330-1500: Performance for Year 4 parents
Friday(08/12/23) 1000-1130: Performance for Year 5 parents
Friday(08/12/23) 1330-1500: Performance for Year 6 parents

Guidance

Please be kind and only attend your child’s nativity
Please aim to attend the performance set aside for your child’s year group.
For those wishing to see siblings, you may be able to see them all in one EYFS/KS1’s nativity (Monday and Tuesday) includes EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 in the same show. KS2’s Nativity (Thursday and Friday) has Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 in the same show.
Those of you with a child in each Key Stage can, of course, see both shows
The KS2 children will be performing all around the church and in the aisles, so every seat in church will have a good view, including those at the very back of the church.

Christmas Parade

We’ll be taking a break from running our ‘Elfridges’ Shop this year. Instead we have organised an extra special treat for the children! On Tuesday 12th December at 2:00pm the children will be watching a Christmas Parade in the school grounds. We will be pulling out all the stops for this to create magical memories that will last a lifetime and Parents/Carers will be invited to watch from the pavement. We have 2 small requests:

1. Please keep this a secret from your children, we won’t be talking about this in school so mums the word!

2. This will be a magical experience but it is an expensive event for us to fund. We would be really grateful if you are able to support us and donate £2.50 per child towards the costs.

Christmas Pantomime

This year the whole school are going to watch the Jack and the Beanstalk’ pantomime at the Theatre Severn.

The trip will take place on Wednesday 13^th December. The children will travel to the theatre after morning registration to watch the 10.15am performance and return to school around 1.00pm in time for (a slightly delayed) lunch.

The cost of the trip, including theatre tickets (discounted for school pupils) and transport costs to/from the theatre, is £17.25 per child. Please make payment on Arbor before 1st December.

The Panto is costing over £7,000 which is a huge amount of money, we have no allocated budget for this so we really hope you can pay for your child or contribute the amount you can afford to give. The trip is set up on Arbor to enable you to select the amount you are able to contribute. We really hope that you can support us with payment for your child, however small, it all helps.

Christmas Lunch

Our Christmas Lunch will take place on Thursday 14th December. This will be a Non-Uniform Day! Children are welcome to wear their own clothes/Christmas wear to school this day.

Christmas Staff Video

This will be our 4th year of producing a Staff Christmas Video as our gift to the children. Production is underway and staff are squeezing filming and recording into stolen moments and lunchtimes. We look forward to sharing this with you.

Breaking up for Christmas

Our last day in school will be Friday 15th December and we return to school on Wednesday 3rd January.

We are really looking forward to the festive period and making sure the children have lots of opportunities to celebrate and have fun. There really is no Christmas like a Coleham Christmas!

Kindest Regards,

Miss Othen

Business Manager

Friday 17th November, 2023

Rainbow Hamper Raffle

The School Council are fundraising via our annual Christmas Hamper Raffle. There will be 10 colourful hampers to win, packed full of Christmas treats. We would be really grateful if children could help donate an item to go inside a hamper. The ‘colour’ themes for each year group are below with some ideas.