Throughout May, we are celebrating Get Caught Reading Month — a wonderful chance to shine a spotlight on the joy of reading!

We would love your help in capturing our children in the act of reading. Please send in a photo of your child enjoying a book. This could be:

• Reading in their favourite cosy spot
• Reading outdoors in the sunshine
• Reading to a sibling, pet or teddy
• Reading something unusual or fun (comics, magazines, recipes, signs, etc.)
• Reading in an unexpected place — creativity encouraged!

You can either:
– Print the photo and send it into school, or
– Email it to your child’s year group email address

We will be creating a lovely display to celebrate all the wonderful readers in our school.

Thank you for helping us promote a lifelong love of reading! 📖💛

The Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, has written to ask for your support in helping children at our school take part in a new survey: The Big Future.

Pupils can take part here: http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/thebigfuture.

She would like to hear from children aged 0–18 from every background. The survey asks children about the things they enjoy, the challenges they face, the changes they want to see in their communities, and what they think a good childhood should look like today.

We would appreciate your support to help your child complete the survey as schools with particularly high participation rates will receive formal recognition for helping amplify children’s voices.

The findings will be published next year, and they will help shape the conversations and decisions being made about children’s lives and futures at the highest levels.

Thank you for your support.

AFC Telford United, in partnership with Telford & Wrekin Council and the Telford & Wrekin Pride Fund, is gifting 100 free junior shirts to children across the borough. 100 winners will be drawn at random from all eligible entries and invited to the SEAH Stadium at the start of the 2026/27 season to collect their shirt on the pitch and have a photo taken with the players.

Junior Shirt Giveaway | AFC Telford United