Classrooms

2 years ago
Posted on 03rd Jun 2024 by Mrs Western

Safeguarding, Health & Safety Committee Update

The Safeguarding/Health & Safety Governors met on the 22^nd May in school. They really enjoyed talking to a group of older pupils about school dinners/packed lunches and were impressed with their understanding about what a healthy diet looks like.

Governors regularly carry out a ‘spot check’ linked to staff understanding of safeguarding policy and procedure. During this meeting they interviewed a Year 5 Teaching Assistant. Governors were satisfied with the in depth answers the staff member gave to their questions.

Governors had a focus on online safety and carried out a UKCIS online safety audit. Miss Hill is in charge of online safety in our school and is clearly doing a great job! Governors look forward to observing a whole school ‘invacuation drill’ this half term.

2 years ago
Posted on 24th May 2024 by Mr Banfield

Composing in music

Today we had a go at planning compositions to go accompany a disco piece. Children used note names and numbers before having a go at writing these on the musical stave.

2 years ago
Posted on 24th May 2024 by Elsa Wooldridge

Healthy Lifestyles Raffle – 2024

Our annual Healthy Lifestyles Raffle is now live on ParentPay. This year’s prize is a signed England shirt from League Of Their Own Team Captain, European Champion & Queen of the Jungle, Jill Scott!

The raffle is now live on ParentPay and tickets are £1 each. There is no limit on ticket purchase however only one transaction can be made so please ensure you purchase all your tickets at the same time.

The raffle will close at midday on Thursday 6th June and will be drawn in assembly on the afternoon of Friday 7th June. All funds raised will go back into school to help subsidise trips, events & experiences for our children.

Healthy Lifestyles Week will take place in school from Monday 3rd – Friday 7th June. All children to wear their PE kit everyday that week.

Good luck everyone!

2 years ago
Posted on 23rd May 2024 by Elsa Wooldridge

Free Hockey sessions – this half term!

For years 3,4,5 & 6

2 years ago
Posted on 21st May 2024 by Mrs Millington

RHSE Update

Dear Families,

In our curriculum, we continue to use PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) programmes across our school called 1decision and Respect Yourself, a programme devised by the curriculum committee of Shropshire Council. These programmes include elements of Relationships Education, Health Education and Sex Education. We shared our policy with parents and carers in the Autumn Term of 2022 and adjusted it according to feedback.

We give notice to families each year that the RSHE lessons will be taught during the Summer Term. We let you know so that if children want to talk to you about what they have been learning, you are ready to set aside some time to listen to their thoughts and feelings and help them to understand.

In every year group, the theme includes two or three lessons to help children understand the human body, including the changes that take place during puberty, and how human reproduction happens. There is a very serious safeguarding aspect to this work and obviously the younger year groups are not looking at these issues directly and explicitly but rather learning correct terminology for body parts and doing the foundation work for later year groups. Upper Key Stage classes look more fully at puberty and human reproduction.

We hope you will agree that this work is vitally important for children, that it needs to be done age-appropriately and that the 1decision and Respect Yourself programme gives us a secure framework in which to do this.

It is your legal right to withdraw your children from Sex Education that is outside of the National Curriculum for Science. Relationships Education and Health Education is statutory for all primary schools.

You may be aware that the government are consulting on changes to the statutory guidance on teaching relationships and sex education, and Health education. This may affect the delivery of our programme next year and we will keep you informed. There are no changes to our programme this year.

Please talk to us if you have any questions.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Cook

2 years ago
Posted on 17th May 2024 by Mr Banfield

Wroxeter 3GB

2 years ago
Posted on 17th May 2024 by Mrs Western

Finance and Personnel Governors Involvement Update

The Finance and Personnel Governors met today and held discussions around our Early Years offer, with an update from our fantastic new nursery teacher. Governors were reassured that the standard of provision remains high. The enthusiasm demonstrated from the nursery teacher was very evident and it was great to hear how this is shared across the team. Governors were impressed with the early identification of SEND within the Nursery and could see how this supports children as they move into Reception.

Governors had an update on pupil premium expenditure and the impact of the sports premium. They could see that a lot of thought had gone into expenditure and that impact was evident.

Governors were happy to see that the staffing structure remains solid across all year groups as we plan ahead for the next academic year. The governors had an in depth look at the budget for 2024-2025. They acknowledged that school budgets are tighter than normal and were reassured that any savings that had to be made would be minimal.

2 years ago
Posted on 02nd May 2024 by Miss McCullagh

Year 3 – Counting at home 💯

Year 3 have been working so hard to learn their number facts. This really helps them with all aspects of Maths – particularly when using tricky written methods of column calculations! We have noticed that some of our Year 3 children are getting into a bit of a pickle when mentally counting forwards and backward or when finding 1 more and 1 less of numbers within 100. It would really help with confidence and speed of counting if the children could do some extra practice at home.

Children might like to listen and join in with a counting song:

The Big Numbers Song (youtube.com)

Children could count objects when you are on journeys, for example, they could count how many blue cars they see on the way to swimming lessons or how many people they see on their walk home.
Adults at home could give the children quick fire questions such as:

What is one more than _____?

What is one less than ______?

What is ten more than _____?

What is ten less than ______?

Children could play some online counting games such as:

– Splat Paint the Squares – Interactive Number Charts (topmarks.co.uk)

– Helicopter Rescue Helicopter Rescue – Mental Maths for 4 to 8 Year Olds (topmarks.co.uk)

– 100 Hunt 100 Hunt || Practise number patterns, place value, +10, +20, +1, -1,-10, -20 etc (ictgames.com)

Thank you for your continued support. If you would like any further information about how to support your child at home, please speak to a member of the Year 3 team.