This week the circus came to entertain the families of our community. Despite the weather meaning that we were unable to host the circus outside, we were able to hold it inside.

The children loved it and we love any event that brings our families together in our school.

The sun shone today!

Because of this, our children got the opportunity to sit with their community and enjoy an ice cream after a busy day of learning.

A huge thankyou to Mr Wilcox and Derek the delivery driver from Jewsons for the extremely kind donation of raised flower beds for our school. Another example of our community coming together.

Building work is well underway to provide even more facilities for our youngsters. We want our children to reach their potential and to do this we need to ensure that they have the space and equipment to take risks; to feel the fear and do it anyway!

The builders had plenty of help from our little ones who loved learning more about the building trade!

The sun shone, the drinks flowed and everyone had a fabulous time.

Thankyou to everyone for your support – we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Now let’s start planning next year’s…

The first time our little team of 8 visited the school site to try and envisage what was going to be our #schoolofopportunity.

Fast forward 365 days and we have now almost doubled in size, had the best experiences along the way and we are doing everything we can to ensure we offer our children the best education alongside a vast amount of opportunities.

We feel like we have hot the jackpot! We are so glad you, our parents, have joined us on this journey.

What a year we have had!

This morning we had a wonderful music assembly to showcase what the children have been learning in their lessons with Mrs Porrett.

Not sure the parents were expecting to get involved as much as they did! #schoolofopportunity

We had a fantastic transition morning meeting all the new children and staff for September.

It was great to be shown images of our fantastic school being built from start to finish today. Linsey, the project manager for the build, told us all about the different jobs that had to work together to create the final vision. We all agreed that w are super lucky to have our amazing school.

As Shrewsbury’s newest school, we are making sure we explore our community, share ideas and make new friends. Yesterday we went to our neighbours: Radbrook Primary.

The Reception children from Radbrook and Bowbrook played football, built dens, went on a scavenger hunt and shared some ice pops.

It was a pleasure to visit such a great group of children and staff whilst developing our communication, physical and social skills. We will be seeing each other again later in the year.

Where shall we go next?

We are so lucky to have our own Cookery Room at Bowbrook. The children follow instructions, use Maths, build language as well as understanding healthy eating and self hygiene.

This week the children have been reading Superworm and studying mini beasts and decided they wanted to make some wriggly worms to eat. So, the children made some cheese twists that we all agreed tasted better than a real worm would do.

We love the outdoors at Bowbrook and have been outside in all kind of weather this year. Now, finally, the sun has come out! We are making the most of it with some al fresco dining. The children were very excited and want to do it all year round!

We love nothing more than showing off our learning to our families. This term we have been studying mini beasts as part of our Understanding the World. It has really captured the imagination of the children.

We also have weekly music sessions with the fabulous Mrs Porrett. Recently we have been experimenting with some of our new instruments and linked this to our Science topic.

The parents loved listening to the singing, the music and the sharing of our knowledge. As always some of our children bravely stood up and addressed the audience!

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

The children bring energy and joy everyday to our staff and our families. We wanted to spread this throughout our community so we arranged a few visits to Bowbrook House Care Home. The children chatted to the residents about what they love doing at school and listened to some lovely stories.

‘Spread joy everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.’ Mother Teresa.