Shropshire Summer Holiday Fund and Food Programme 2025!

Shropshire Council are delighted to announce that bookings for the Shropshire Summer HAF (Holiday Activities & Food) Programme are now open.

Who can access the HAF programme?

Core Eligibility: Children and young people aged 4 (in reception class) to 16 who are in receipt of benefits related free school meals.

These children and young people will automatically receive a code and information about how to book onto a holiday club from their school.

Wider Eligibility: Children and young people living in areas of high deprivation (top five tiers of deprivation, based on indices of deprivation/income) and/or from low-income households who are not in receipt of benefits related free school meals.

These children and young people can be referred onto the programme by a professional, by completing a referral form.

Paid Places

Many of the HAF programmes also include paid places for children and young people who don’t meet the eligibility criteria. These spaces are generally very heavily subsidised and have been highlighted in the What’s On Guide.

Summer Hunt!

This week, we are learning about the season summer! Yesterday, we learnt about what we might notice outside during the summer months and compared this to what we have learnt through the school year regarding the seasons. Then we made the most of this beautiful sunshine and went outside for a signs of summer hunt!

 

Arts Week – Day 1

It’s Arts Week and we’re learning about Italy! Yesterday, we learnt lots about Italy as a country and then focused in on the beautiful city of Venice. The children were intrigued by the “City of Canals” and showed a particular interest in the Bridge of Sighs.

The art skill we were focusing on was painting using watercolours. The children were asked to paint a picture of Venice using the watercolour paint. Here’s what they produced…

 

The attention to detail is wonderful! Well done team!

Book Fair 2025

Our school travelling book fair kicks off tomorrow afternoon! We’re asking everyone to support us by buying some books for home so we can get some free books for school. Books will be available to buy in the school hall from 3.15pm tomorrow.

Signs of Spring Hunt

Earlier this week, the reception children went outside for a “signs of spring” hunt. They had a wonderful time searching the school grounds for the items on their list and there was some lovely vocabulary development too!


Football Skills

Today was our last PE lesson on “Ball Games” for this academic year. Today’s focus was football skills and goal scoring. The children worked very hard in this lesson and we were delighted with the progress they made! Better still, every single one of them scored a goal for Team Hedgehogs!