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Class 10 Message

9 months ago
Posted on 05th Sep 2025 by

Secondary School Applications

Dear Parent

Your child is due to transfer to secondary school in September 2026.  The online application process opens on the 1 September 2025 and closes on 31 October 2025.  A letter will be sent home with your child, outlining the process.  Alternatively, please follow this link – Apply to start or transfer school | Shropshire Council  which takes you to the Shropshire Council Admissions website.  Details about secondary school open evenings can be found in the Parents’ Guide to Education in Shropshire booklet, on the same website

Applications received by Shropshire Council after the closing date will be classed as late, which may result in your child being disadvantaged, so please ensure you make your application on-time. Late applications will not be processed until all on-time applications have been offered.

Please note your child’s cohort is larger than in previous years.  You can name up to four schools on your application – we encourage parents to make full use of these preferences.  If only one preference is named, and we cannot offer this, we will have no choice on National Offer Day but to offer a place at the next nearest school with a vacancy, which could be a considerable distance from your home address.

Kind Regards

The School Admissions Team

12 months ago
Posted on 13th Jun 2025 by

Day of Welcome Masks

To celebrate the Day of Welcome, as part of Refugee Week, children in Year 5 and Year 6 made masks. This was centred behind the idea that there are many hidden superpowers including being able to speak another language. We celebrated other languages people in our class knew, or their relatives knew, then made superhero masks to celebrate. The children had a thoughtful and enjoyable afternoon.

1 year ago
Posted on 15th Mar 2025 by

British Science Week – open lessons with parents

It was wonderful to have our parents join us for our science lesson during British Science Week.

Carrying on the theme of climate change from our geography, we looked at the changes of temperature and water contact have on glaciers.

Year 5 compared the impact of ice with hot or cold water and timed the difference between each investigations.

Year 6 had more variables and used salt and sugar to see if the difference in timings to melt the ice was faster or slower.

 

1 year ago
Posted on 26th Feb 2025 by

National Offer Day for Secondary School – 3rd March

Dear Parents/Carers, 

As national offer day is nearly upon us (3 March), the admissions team have asked us to contact our Year 6 parents to check they can access their account on the Parent Portal.  If, for whatever reason you cannot access your account or are locked out, please email school-admissions@shropshire.gov.uk or phone 0345 678 9008 as soon as possible.  A colleague in the Admissions Team will look into this and re-set/unlock accounts accordingly.

Thanks

1 year ago
Posted on 13th Feb 2025 by

Internet Safety in Year 5 and 6

Children in upper Key Stage 2 took part in Internet Safety activities on Tuesday. The students showed impressive understanding of how to protect personal information online, as well as spotting signs of scam. They knew the term ‘phishing’ and were able to identify safe ways to create an online profile, as well as spotting the dangerous ways to present personal information. A fun game using dice was to create a safe password by rolling, and seeing what you get. An example, if you rolled all ones, would be Happypink1dolphin£

The children demonstrated their maturity and impressed throughout.

2 years ago
Posted on 26th Nov 2024 by

Shrewsbury High School for Girls

Please see information below regarding application information for Shrewsbury High School if your year 6 girl would be interested in applying.

We are in the middle of our Year 7 application process for September 2025 – the deadline for applications is Friday 13th December and applications are made online by the parent at https://shrewsburyhighschoolgdst.applicaa.com/ – parents can apply for means-tested bursaries or merit based Scholarship awards – Academic, Music, Art, Drama and Sport.

Bursary applications are completely confidential and handled by our Bursary team at GDST.  We, as a school, do not see any of the information provided and are given a validated amount for each family by GDST once all bursaries have been received.   Bursaries can range from between 30% to 100% of the fees so are well worth applying for if you think you might be eligible.  If you would like to read more, please visit Bursaries – Girls’ Day School Trust.

2 years ago
Posted on 07th Nov 2024 by

Geography: Identifying Settlements and Land Use

This week Class 8,9 and 10 started their new Geography unit of work called Settlement and Migration. They used OS maps to identify different types of settlements. The settlements they identified were hamlets, villages, towns, cities, market towns and ports. To be able to identify them they had to understand the differences between each settlement.

 

After identifying different settlements, they explored how the land was being used in each settlement. They identified residential use, industrial use, commercial use, recreational use and transportation.

2 years ago
Posted on 10th Oct 2024 by

Arthog Day Four

Day Four at Arthog

Today, all the groups ventured into the beautiful hills of the Barmouth area, capturing amazing sights, challenging ourselves with a long and tiring walk, and testing our bravery as we had a go at rock climbing. It has been a mixture of peaceful, breath-taking and exhilarating. Tonight, we are going to try Nightline- this involved attempting an obstacle course in the dark with a blindfold on!