September Newsletter

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Swimming Skip to article
Spanish Lessons Skip to article
The circus came to Bowbrook Skip to article
Forest School Skip to article
Let’s Dance! Skip to article
Our sensory room Skip to article
Dates for your diary Skip to article
New members of our team! Skip to article
We are One year old! Skip to article
Parenting Support for families Skip to article

Headteacher’s Update

The second year for Bowbrook Primary has begun!

It seems so much busier as we have at least 3 times as many children and lots of new staff. Miss Laura Shelbourne has joined Mrs Woosnam in the office. We have Mrs Long, Miss Stone and Mrs Timmis as new Teaching Assistants and Miss Hollis as the Year 1 teacher. We also have Mrs Jones who has joined us as the SENDCo and Madame Jones who is now our Spanish teacher. All have settled in really well and will be a huge benefit to the education of your children.

There are many new starters amongst the children and they are finding their feet. Ambitiously we started football club, dance club, forest school etc in the first week so apologies if your children came back with the wrong socks, book bags or trousers! This first few weeks are about establishing rules and routines and developing relationships. We are well on the way to doing all of that.

We are determined to provide wonderful opportunities for your children and have already had the Circus in school – it did not go exactly as planned but the children had a great time which is the most important thing. We have also started our Spanish and Music lessons which the children have thoroughly enjoyed.

We have made a big effort over the summer to improve our outdoor area and the children have already enjoyed the new equipment that we have.

As always if there are any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Sam Aiston

Swimming

Swimming has began for Kingfishers at Shrewsbury School. Swimming is a valuable life skill and we believe in teaching it as early as possible!

Spanish Lessons

Hola! Welcome to Ms Jones our Spanish Teacher who has joined us this week! The children will now be receiving Spanish lessons in school! We are all very excited about this!

The circus came to Bowbrook

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.

Forest School

Caterpillars loved their first visit this term to our forest school. We explored our new surroundings, then went on a bear hunt. Lots of amazing vocabulary and fun.

Let’s Dance!

Dance Club has started! Mrs Madden and her dancers are back in action with some new additions. We are lucky to have Mrs Madden teaching our children and hopefully some of our little ones will get the chance to represent our school on stage in the future.

Our sensory room

We are passionate about mental well being and providing different areas for our children whether that be calm zones, sensory areas or reflection areas. We have developed some wonderful spaces for our children that we are all benefitting from.

Dates for your diary


3^rd September	Return to school
6^th September	Swimming starts for Kingfishers
11^th September (4pm and 5.30pm)	Circus
17^th September	School photos
18^th September (2.30pm)	Phonics Talk for Dragonflies
19^th September	Science visit to Priory for Kingfishers
21^st September	Bowbrook 1^st Birthday party
26^th September (2pm)	Open classrooms with coffee and cake
October	Black History Month
21^st October (9pm)	Harvest Assembly
23rd October (4-5pm)	Boo-tastic Boogie
23^rd October	Break up for Half term
5^th November	Return to school
11^th November	Remembrance Day
11-15^th November	Nursery Rhyme week Farm on Wheels visit
12^th November	Whole school trip to Chester Zoo for Dragonflies and Kingfishers
30^th November	Christmas Movie morning
6^th December (5pm)	Christmas Light switch on
12^th December (1.30pm and 5pm)	Nativity shows
18^th December	Whole school visit to Christmas Owl at Theatre Severn
19^th December	Christmas Party
20^th December	Break up for Christmas
6^th January	Return to school for Spring term
29^th January (2pm)	Lunar New Year celebration banquet
11^th February	Safer Internet Day
14^th February	Break up for Half term
3^rd-7th March	World Book week
10th – 14^th March	British Science week
24^th – 30^th March	Shakespeare Week
28^th March (2pm)	Mother’s day crafts with Mum
May	Mental Health Awareness week


18^th July	Break up for Summer

New members of our team!

Welcome to some of our new members of staff that you will see around school. Please make them feel welcome and have a chat with them.

We are One year old!

Please come along on Saturday 21st September to our first Birthday party. We have so much going on for the whole family – I am sure it will be lots of fun!