1 week ago
Posted on January 15, 2021 by Mrs Perkins

Headteacher’s Letter

Dear parents,

I would like to thank you for your continued support throughout this week. We have worked hard this week to ensure that the numbers of children at school have remained low enabling us to ensure the safety of all of the key worker children we have in school and our staff. This would not have been possible without all of your support and selflessness. I appreciate that many of you are currently juggling working from home and supporting your children with their home learning. We are all extremely appreciative of this and we hope that together we can continue to support you in this.

Throughout the week we have been monitoring and evaluating the home learning package that we are offering. It has been wonderful to see some of the fantastic examples of work completed by your children that have been submitted to their teachers. We would like to celebrate this work and will be sending out a homework certificate to one child from each class each week to recognise their hard work. We will also be awarding one child who has been in school a certificate for their hard work too. These will be sent to parents via email. We would ideally like you child to complete 4 hours worth of work a day, in line with the government guidelines, this will be made up of one English, one maths and either a Science, RE or a foundation subject lesson. Completed work can be submitted to class teachers through the dedicated class email address or Class DoJo. If at any point your child is struggling with their work, teachers and teaching assistants are manning the class email between 9:00 and 12:00 every day to offer your children support, guidance and encouragement digitally should they require it.

We welcome any feedback and comments regarding our home learning package, please do not hesitate to contact myself through the school office.

Thank you for your continued support and I know that through our joint efforts and hard work we will ensure the continued safety and education of all of the children at Wrockwardine Wood CE Junior school.

Tracey Cartwright

2 weeks ago
Posted on January 8, 2021 by Mrs Perkins

Next Week

Dear parents,

I would like to say thank you to all the staff, pupils and parents for making me feel so welcome at Wrockwardine Wood C.E. Junior School. It has certainly been a very unusual week to start my headship. My transition into the school has been made much smoother by the support and positive comments from parents. All staff have worked incredibly hard to ensure your children have access to high quality learning resources enabling them to maintain their education within school and at home. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the home learning package, please do not hesitate to contact the school.

My main priority is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of pupils and staff at Wrockwardine Wood C.E. Junior. I know that it is not always easy or ideal to home school your children, however, in doing so you have enabled me to keep numbers in school low making it possible to socially distance those that are coming in to school and maintain rigorous hygiene procedures for everyone’s benefit. Furthermore, to parents who are key workers, your flexibility in only sending children in when absolutely necessary is greatly appreciated and follows current government advice stating the safest place for your children at present is at home.

From next week, we would ask that key worker children attending school are dressed in school uniform with a school sweatshirt/cardigan with appropriate winter coats. In accordance with our latest risk assessments, doors and windows will be opened regularly to circulate air and this will make the building very cold.

CHILDREN ELIGIBLE FOR FREE SCHOOL MEALS:

From the 18^thJanuary 2021 we will be offering Aldi vouchers to those families eligible for Free School Meals. In view of the monetary amount and for security reasons, these will need to be collected from school by an adult and signed for. For the week commencing 11^th January, we will be offering packed lunches which need to be collected from school. An electronic order form has already been sent to you by text (for week commencing 11^th Jan only). Again, I’d like to thank you for your patience giving us the time to put this system in place. It may take over a week for the vouchers to be distributed to us. Once we have them, we will let you know.

Please note: the parents of any children attending school who are eligible for free school meals will need to make a choice of whether to have a hot meal cooked in school daily or receive the vouchers and provide their own packed lunch. Please advise us of your choice via email a3129@telford.gov.uk by 12pm Monday 11^th January. If we do not receive any communication from you by this time, we will presume you are not taking up this offer and do not require either.

I hope that by continuing to work together during this very difficult time we can ensure that our loved ones are kept safe. Please do not hesitate to contact school if you have any queries or concerns.

Tracey Cartwright

3 weeks ago
Posted on January 3, 2021 by Mrs Perkins

Important Information

Dear Parents,

Happy New Year! I hope you have all had a relaxing holiday with your families and this letter finds you all well.

As a Primary School in a tier 3 area, we are looking forward to welcoming our children back on Tuesday 5^th January (Monday being a PD day), should we receive any information from the Government or Telford and Wrekin Council to the contrary regarding reopening we will contact you immediately. We will continue to do all we can to keep your children safe, please ensure social distancing remains a high priority during drop off and collection times and continue to wear face coverings.

I know with the rapidly changing situation with the new variant parents will naturally be concerned, we will do everything in our power to ensure we are doing all we can to remain safe in this situation, however we will communicate immediately should any bubbles need to close. With this in mind I plan to review all procedures and practice at the school during the first week back and I will notify you of any changes and adaptations’ towards the end of the week. The ultimate goal for all of us is to keep your children, our staff and the wider school community safe.

You will have heard there are teaching unions calling for school staff to work from home for the next two weeks. I will be communicating with all staff to ensure our staffing levels are safe and appropriate for reopening and will communicate with you again if we have any areas of concern regarding this.

Many thanks for your support during these difficult times and we look forward to seeing all our children on the January 5^th.

Best wishes,

T Cartwright

2 months ago
Posted on December 11, 2020 by Mrs Platt

Reading Ages!

	Approx. reading age	Our average reading age
Year 3	7-8	7.06
Year 4	8-9	8.05
Year 5	9-10	9.03
Year 6	10-11	10.00

WWJS Reading Requirements

At WWJS, our aim is to ignite the passion for reading. Reading is a vital skill that will support children’s learning across the whole curriculum. As a school, we will ensure that our children are taught to read with fluency, accuracy and understanding. Above all, we want children in our school to become enthusiastic, independent and reflective readers. Essentially, we want children to enjoy reading.

In order for our children to fulfil their potential in reading we need as much parental support as possible and we hope to work together in order to ensure that all children succeed.

Above are the average reading ages across all year groups. Children were tested on their understanding of words in different contexts. Thank you for all your support with reading. We have supplied the requirements for reading to this post. This is the reading that we do in school and the reading that we hope is going on at home.

Thank you for your ongoing support at home!

3 months ago
Posted on October 19, 2020 by Mrs Perkins

Friday 23rd October – Infant School

This is a reminder that Infant school have a PD day this Friday the 23rd October and will not be open for breakfast club.

Many thanks.

7 months ago
Posted on July 9, 2020 by Mrs Perkins

St Luke’s After School Club – Important Information Please Read

Hi everyone,

We have been advised by St Luke’s that due to Covid-19, their after school club structure will change from September 2020 until further notice. Please make sure you read the attached letter if you had been using Luke Lively previously or were due to use this service in September. They are unfortunately not able to accept any children from any other schools (including ours) in their after school provision.

All the information is included in their letter.

Closure due to COVID – Letter to WWJS

7 months ago
Posted on July 8, 2020 by Mrs Platt

A Fantastic Opportunity for Next Year’s Year 5 and 6 Children!

Calling all Year 5 and 6 Children!!!!!

We have an exciting opportunity for Year 5 and 6 children starting in September. We need fantastic librarians to help us run the library, hold events for the whole school, come up with and organise challenges and help to get children reading.

If you think this could be a great job for you, have a look at the job description. I will be opening the application process at the beginning of next year! I look forward to seeing you all soon!

application form

junior librarian job description

7 months ago
Posted on June 24, 2020 by Mrs Perkins

End of Year Reports 2020

It will soon be that time of year again!

This year we will be sending out your child’s report by email during the last week of term. The plan is to send them on Wednesday 15th July. Therefore, please make sure if you have changed your email address recently, we have your correct one. If you need to change the details, please email a3129@telford.gov.uk Please don’t call school as there may not be anyone in the office to answer your call.

Only Year 5 children will have an attendance sheet this year as this is needed by some schools when applying for secondary places. All other year group reports will have the attendance section removed.

If you haven’t received your email containing your report by Friday 17th July (am) please email a3129@telford.gov.uk to let us know.

Many thanks.

7 months ago
Posted on June 16, 2020 by Mrs Perkins

A warm welcome!

We are delighted to let you know that we have a new member of staff joining us in Year 4 from September. Her name is Miss Lorren Giles and she will be a newly qualified Teacher.

We would like you to join us in welcoming Lorren into our school family 🙂