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ROWLING
who earned the most house points – Well Done!
Weekly School Newsletter
New Playtime boxes
We are delighted to announce our new playtime boxes.
With money raised by your support for FOPPS events and extensive consultation with the School Council, we have purchased some playtime boxes and equipment.
We now have a box for each day with a range of activities from dancing and cheerleading to target and coordination games. Alongside this, we have bought new balls for ball games and received some heavy-duty cones kindly donated by Shropshire Homes.
The children are thoroughly enjoying these and the equipment is in high demand. Well done to our Year 6s who are leading and supporting this project.
Many thanks to you for your support, the FOPPS group for all of the events organised and Shropshire Homes for their donation.
School Opening Time Consultation
Dear Parents/Carers and Colleagues,
The DfE has instructed all maintained schools to deliver a school week of 32.5 hours to begin from September 2023. Therefore, we will need to increase our school day (as other schools will) by 15 minutes per day to meet this requirement.
Currently, we open the school doors at 8:45am, register closes at 9:00am and the school day ends at 3:15pm.
The options we are considering are:
| Option A
(similar to Mary Webb) |
Option B | |
| School doors open | 8:35am | 8:45am |
| Registration closes | 8:45am | 8:55am |
| School day ends | 3:15pm | 3:25pm |
I would appreciate it if you could complete the short survey in the Forms section of the Weduc App/website to indicate your preference to help inform the decision made.
Please note that Wraparound Club and afterschool clubs will continue to run. We will give plenty of notice of this change ready for September 2023 and all times will remain the same until then.
Many thanks,
Tom Lowrie-Herz (Acting Headteacher)
Shrewsbury Youth Theatre Production
A past Pontesbury CE Primary School pupil, Catherine May
(and a couple of other recognisable faces) will be appearing
in the following Shrewsbury Youth Theatre production of Animal Farm,
they would appreciate you going along to watch and support them.
Child Safety Concerns
A reminder to all parents.
Please do not park your car outside school on double yellow lines or the keep clear zig zag lines.
Cars are repeatedly parking opposite school on double yellow lines this is a safety issue as it makes crossing the road for children (and their grown ups) very dangerous and placing lives at risk.
In addition it is most disrespectful to our neighbours whose drives are also being blocked.
Academy Photography in school for sports groups and music service pupils (Monday 23rd Jan)
Academy Photography will be in school on the morning of Monday 23rd January to take photos of our sports groups (e.g. football/cricket teams) and all pupils who currently have music lessons lessons in school with the Shropshire Music Service.
Please could children who may be in one of those groups bring in their relevant PE kit, outfit or musical instrument (including drumsticks) and music book when they come into school that morning.
No other photos (individual or class photos) will be taken on this occasion.
Percussion Club Update – 2 sessions cancelled (13th & 20th January)
Unfortunately, Peta has double-booked on Friday 20th January so has also cancelled Percussion club that day as well at this Friday 13th January.
Percussion club will resume on Friday 27th January and should run weekly until Friday 17th February as originally planned.
Please arrange to collect your child at 3.15pm on those dates (or make alternate childcare arrangements). We do apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Special Dinner Menu – Thursday 19th January 2023
On Thursday 19th January there will be a change to the normal dinner menu.
We are having a special menu of:
Burgers
Hotdogs
Vegetarian Hotdogs
Mac and cheese
Fries
Pasta
Sweetcorn/Coleslaw/Baked Beans
Waffles with Chocolate Sauce
Fruit Salad
Yogurt
Just a reminder that all children in Reception, Year 1 and
Year 2 are entitled to a free school.
We would like ALL children to try this delicious menu
Year 2 SATS and Colomendy information meeting
Dear Year 2 Parents,
I will be holding a short meeting straight afterschool on Tuesday 31st January 2023, to give information regarding the Year 2 SATS assessments and the imminent residential trip to Colomendy (16th-17th February). It will be an opportunity to ask any questions you may have about the SATS or the trip.
The meeting will be held in Room 3, children won’t be able to attend the meeting but they will be looked after by another member of staff in a different classroom.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Mrs Pittaway
