Friday 7th November 2025
Good evening,
I hope that you all had a lovely half term break. Children seemed to be really excited coming back to school and seeing all the changes that had happened over half term; we’ve moved our library into the middle of school to further inspire children to pick up a book. It has been lovely seeing children relax with a book in this space at lunch time. We’ve also had a piano donated to school by William’s family – we are really thankful for this as a lot of children play the piano and have lessons. It has already been used a lot and we’re excited to inspire many more to play the piano.
Autumn has definitely arrived in Longnor – the leaves are falling and the weather starting to cool. With this, we now have a field that is starting to get muddy: please could children have a pair of wellies in school so that they can play on the field at break.
School Council have decided to introduce House Points to be used every day. This way the children feel more of a team and earn points together, which will finalise on Sports’ Day in the summer. They have decided that everyone can get points for kindness, being respectful and helping others. We hope that children will start to wear their house colour for PE lessons over the year.
Congratulations to our achievers this week:
- Little Owls – Arthur for great listening skills in phonics and Nimrit for offering to help tidy during lunch.
- Kestrels – Evangeline for amazing phonics work and Arthur for trying really hard in phonics.
- Merlins – Esther for excellent maths and doing really well in PE. Rohan and Henri for fantastic problem solving in maths.
- Eagles – Jerry and Frankie for amazing progress in their multiplication methods using factorising. Jess for great manners around school.
Our handwriting heroes are Alice Br, Dom, Darcy, Alice and Ava.
If you are visiting any firework displays this weekend, we hope that you stay safe and enjoy the festivities together. Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs L. Edgerton
Exciting news for Mrs Lewis
We are delighted to share with you that Mrs Lewis is expecting a baby. She is feeling a little tired but is excited and healthy. I’m sure you’ll join us in congratulating her.
For Eagles, she plans to stay in school to teach and support you as long as possible as she knows how important year six is. She aims to keep working until the end of February. We are already looking at a plan for covering her maternity leave. As soon as this is finalised, then we will share details; however, Mrs Edgerton will teach year six for their core subjects (English and mathematics) from March onwards to ensure that they are fully prepared to transfer to secondary school.
Threadworms
We have been informed that we have a case of threadworms in school. Because of this, we are following guidance and increasing hand washing, ensuring all food is washed thoroughly before eating and making sure that key surfaces are thoroughly cleaned. Should you find that your child has an infection, please follow guidance and treat immediately. Please inform the school office as soon as possible so we can help manage the infection. There is no need to keep your child(ren) home from school.
Halloween Disco – Thanks
The Halloween disco before half term was a fantastic success: the School Circle raised over £400 and lots of fun was had by everyone. Thank you to all the children who came along, it was great to see you all enjoying yourselves as well as the amazing costumes and dance moves!
A big thank you to the Halloween Disco committee and all those who kindly volunteered their time to make it such a successful event: Jess Waller, Sara Marais, Clare Baxter, Anna Morris, Vicky Regan, Katie Phoenix, Alison Jordan, Sally White, Tina Aljan, Jenny Blackhurst, Charlotte Downes, Lucy Jones and Gareth Jones.
Thanks also go to Ben McMillan, Mrs Edgerton and Mr Helliker for doing a brilliant job of helping with the games and dancing.
Apologies if we have missed anyone!
Pizza and PJ’s Night
Save the Date – Ceilidh
Children in Need – Friday 14th November
Children in Need – 14th November 2025
This year we have a brand new idea for children in need day: you can come in your own clothes (bringing a suggested donation of a £1 please). We would also like you to bring in a box of cereal. We would like to make a massive dominoes throughout the school using the cereals. We will then take the boxes to the food bank in Church Stretton. We hope that you like this idea and that it will be good fun.
We will share our proceeds this year 50/50 with the High Sheriff of Shropshire’s Youth Awareness charity. The money for that will go directly to the children of Shropshire.
Yours sincerely,
The school council (Ava, Wren, Mabel, Pippa, Adelaide, Meriam, Oliver, Floss, Zach and Annie)
Nasal flu vaccine
A letter was sent home with all children from Reception up to Year 6 earlier this week about the nasal flu vaccination. Please find the econsent link here:
School Aged Immunisation Service Consent
The original letter is available to read here:
Immunisation letter
EYFS & KS1 Christmas Nativity
Remembrance Day and Poppies for sale
Poppies will be on sale in school from Monday.
Longnor Church is once again full of poppies for Remembrance Day, pupils and parents are welcome to go in and have a look. The church is open every day during daylight hours.
There is a Service of Remembrance at 10.30am this Sunday, when the names of all the men commemorated on the War Memorial will be read out. Again, everyone very welcome. The poppies will be in place until the end of the month.
There is a box at the back of church for donations to the Royal British Legion and there’s also a basket of knitted poppies, if anyone would like to buy one to wear (suggested donation £2).
Dorrington Youth Club cancelled tonight
Dorrington youth club is cancelled tonight – Friday 7th November.
The next meeting is Friday 5th December.
Thank you.