Headteacher Message Dear Parents & Carers,
What a super Olympic Week we have had this week – a huge thank you to Miss Lewis for putting together such an amazingly inspirational week of visitors and activities.
I have spent many hours and hours pouring over all your children’s reports over the last week and have thoroughly enjoyed reading such lovely comments: your teachers really know your children well. End-of-year reports are always a big job, but it is one of my favourite jobs of the year! Reports will be coming out on Monday 8th, so please do make sure your child hands you an envelope!
For Wednesday and Thursday next week, I will be at Thomas Adams School in Wem, and their Headteacher, Mr Mark Cooper will be at Coleham. This is part of our ‘Head Swap’ activities where Headteachers across our Trust spend time in each others’ schools speaking to children and staff, observing lessons and finding out what it is like to be part of another school. This is always a fascinating and interesting experience with lots to take in and learn. Please do take the time to say hello to Mr Cooper at the school gates on Wednesday and Thursday.
Enjoy this week’s newsletter and have a lovely weekend!
Tom Larkham
Headteacher
What’s on next week? Lots and lots!
Monday 8th July
School Reports coming home
Tuesday 9th July
Yr 3 Recorder Concert for Parents @ 9.15am
Yr 5 Lions trip to Flaxmill
Yr 6 Elephants Swimming Session
New Reception Children Induction Session 1.30pm-3:00pm
Treat Tuesday after school
Wednesday 10th July
Head Swap with Mr Cooper from Thomas Adams Secondary School
Whole School Transition Day
Yr 5 Parents Welcome to Year 6 Information Evening @3.30pm or 5.30pm
Thursday 11th July
Head Swap with Mr Cooper from Thomas Adams Secondary School
Yr 4 Dolphins Trip
Friday 12th July
Yr 4 Whales Trip
Yr 5 Leopards Trip to Flaxmill
EYFS Family Lunch
Year 6 Leavers Assembly for families @1.30pm – 3:00pm
Community Quiz Night @7.30pm
THIS FRIDAY Fancy unwinding at the end of the week! Stroll down and join us for drinks in our beautiful garden. It’s open to all and you may pay on the gate. Supporting our school funds by having a lovely evening…
THIS SUNDAY for Past Families of Holy Trinity Pre School Holy Trinity pre-school Manager Shirley Corfield is retiring and a celebration send off has been arranged in her honour. All ex families and friends are welcome to join the Funday to pass on their best regards and celebrate all Shirley has done for the many, many children she has cared for over the last 30 years!
Treat Tuesday next week
Quiz Night next Friday Come along to our brilliant quiz night next week. The Coleham Staff team were invited along to the Dough & Oil Quiz night this week and went along, purely for research purposes of course, and so you may see Mr Larkham being inspired by some new rounds! (Team Coleham were the winners by the way, just in case you were wondering)
We have some tables left for Friday’s quiz so we’re happy to take walk-ins on the night.
Mr Jones retires Our legendry Caretaker Mr Jones is retiring from Coleham School. There is no job too small or too big for Mr Jones especially when it comes to dressing up and appearing in our crazy videos! To mark the occasion, we will be asking all staff and children to come dressed up as Mr Jones or one of his many alter egos from Coleham videos past aka The Grinch, Snowman, James Bond, Simon Cowell, Disco outfits, Liverpool supporter or his classic attire of caretaker overalls. With 420 Mr Jones lookalikes on site we should get plenty of work done! Shhh its a surprise!
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Coleham PE tops The NEW Coleham PE Performance tops are now available at the School Shop Direct.
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Piano Lessons available Mrs Langford, Shropshire Music Service piano teacher at Coleham will have spaces available from September for any children wishing to learn piano (Y2 upwards). For further information and to sign up please contact Shropshire Music Service on 01743 874145.
Coleham shines with 2nd place finish at Shrewsbury Area Athletics 2024 An incredibly huge well done to every single child who took part in Area Athletics this evening. It was a huge success to watch you all compete and give it your all. I am so proud of you all for your dedication and team effort—you are truly incredible.
It was amazing to see so many of you take home medals and secure an outstanding 2nd place overall, competing against 12 other schools. Well done, Coleham! You should feel extremely proud of yourselves.
Congratulations once again on your remarkable achievement!
Beth Tweddle visits Olympic Gymnast Beth Tweddle visited us for our Olympics Week! What a fantastic day! In a whole school assembly she talked about her gymnastics journey from age 7 to winning a bronze medal at the Olympics in London 2012. She told us about the importance of fitness and healthy eating and the amazing team around her that contributed to British Gymnastics success. Year 3 and 4 were lucky enough to have a gymnastics session with Beth before every pupil in school went to collect a signed photograph to take home! An incredible day of memories and all to inspire the children ready for the Paris 2024 Olympics! Beth is flying out to Paris in a few weeks to cover the gymnastics events.
Read the Shropshire Star News Article
Paralympian Mickey Bushell We were honoured to have Paralympic athlete Mickey Bushell visiting us in school this morning. He joined our whole school assembly where we watched his gold medal win at the London 2012 Paralympic Games for wheelchair track racing and learnt a little more about his journey to get there.
Children in our year 1 and 2 classes were lucky enough to take part in a Q&A session, where they found out all about him, how he trains, all the different places he has raced and his favourite foods. The children even got to hold his gold medal! Thank you so much for coming to join us Mickey!
Athlete Adrian Patrick leads Coleham Circuit Training As a finale to our Olympics Week we were visited by a third medal winner! Sprinter Adrian Patrick, a Commonwealth Games Gold winner for 4 x 400m relay led the whole school in circuit training. These intensive 8 minute sessions saw the children do sit ups, press ups, squats and jumps which we all loved. The perfect Friday morning work out! He talked to us in assembly about always remembering our vision and dream and not being distracted by behaviours that won’t lead us to our end goal.
What a week of incredible experiences. Thank you to Miss Lewis for all her hard work and meticulous organisation.
Olympics Showcase Song Our Olympics Festival Day was fantastic and we finished with a showcase song to parents. Mrs Porrett led the children with ‘We are Shropshire’ and ‘Wavin Flag’. There is nothing more powerful than when we come together to sing on mass. Our Coleham Community all together! A lovely end to the day.
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Sea Shanties @ Music club Jump & Jive Music Club were joined by visitor Lisa on her accordion for their mini-concert on Monday. Along with rowing songs on their pirate ships, the Jump & Jive pirates sang sea shanties including ‘Wellerman’ and ‘Drunken Sailor’ and danced a pirate jig with their parents! Great singing Jump & Jive!