Date for your diaries, The Corbet Talent Show takes place on Friday, 26th April 2024.

The CFA Easter bingo takes place on Thursday, 21st March 2024. Tickets now on Sale from Reprographics

We make every effort to keep the school open but our primary concern has to be the safety of our staff and pupils. As a rural school with a large catchment area we con-sider many factors including site safety, transport and staffing. We publish the following arrangements to follow in the event of a school closure. We ask you to please keep this section in a safe place for future reference.

The school will make the following announcements via the school website; the alerts will display one of the following messages:

• School Open
• We are consulting on any possible school closure and will advise you as soon as possible
• School closed
• You are advised to tune into any local radio station; they will announce any school closures
• If the school is closing, we shall send a text message and an email to alert parents via the schools messaging system.
• Please do not attempt to contact the school to make individual arrangements with your child. We will need to access the phone lines to contact transport providers, staff and other essential service providers.
• Please note – All pupils who travel on school transport will be expected to re-turn home on school transport.
•  If necessary, transport will be dispatched early and you will notified by text mes-sage and email.
• Parents can refer to school closures on Shropshire Council website Shrop-shire.gov.uk/school-closures/secondary-schools
• If there is more widespread severe weather, Shropshire Council Authority will activate a Helpline for parents. (When operating, the helpline number will be given out by the Radio Stations)

Pupils travelling by school bus should wait at their usual collection point for 30 minutes after the usual pick-up time. If the bus does not arrive, please return home. This is normal practice during pick-up time if the bus is delayed.

All parents/carers are asked to make appropriate arrangements for their child in case of an unscheduled school closure during the working day. Please make sure your child is aware of these arrangement’s and have completed Page 1 of their pupil handbook.

Please can parents ensure the school has up to date contact details, preferably a mobile number (for texts) and an email address, which can be updated by the Parent Lite App.

Each July, our Year 10 students head out into the workforce to experience life in the working world. We are always keen to expand the number and variety of careers and work placements available to them. The process is fully supported by our dedicated team who are always on hand to guide. If you feel able to support this fantastic, worthwhile opportunity by hosting one of our students, we’d be delighted to hear from you. Please contact us at careers@corbetschool.net. A member of our Careers Education Team will be in touch in the hope that we can include you and your business our provision.

• PD Day, Monday 8th January, staff only in school
• Pupils return to school on Tuesday 9th January 2024

Christmas Lunch: This year we are going to designate Tuesday 19th December as “Christmas Lunch Day”. Tutors have spoken with their tutees about this, the only option that will be available that day will be a roast turkey dinner or vegetarian option (£3.50), which can be purchased using their ParentPay account as normal. There is also no additional charge for pupils entitled to free school meals. Those who do not wish to have Christmas lunch should bring a packed lunch please.
Please note There will be a break service on this day however it will be a limited selection. To continue with the festivities there will also be hot chocolate and biscuits available to purchase during break-time. We would like to introduce a pay it forward scheme and more information of this will be available closer to the time. We would also like to ask for any donations of instant hot chocolate, marshmallows, and cream for this.

Christmas Jumper Day, Tuesday 19th December: Along with Christmas Lunch Day, pupils can come to school in their Christmas jumpers, worn with school uniform. We won’t be asking for cash donations for this; however, we would be happy to rehome any outgrown or unwanted Christmas Jumpers.

As the end of term is fast approaching, we thought it would be timely to inform you of a few arrangements:

Christmas Tree: We would like to thank Leaton Forest for supplying our Christmas tree this year. If parent/carers have any unwanted Christmas decorations, we would love to give them a new home.

Lost property: We have again accumulated large amounts of lost property; pupils will be informed when this is on display, to reclaim any missing items. Anything unclaimed by the end of term will be re-cycled through Corbet Clothes or donated to charity.

Christmas Lunch: This year we are going to designate Tuesday 19th December as “Christmas Lunch Day”. Tutors have spoken with their tutees about this, the only option that will be available that day will be a roast turkey dinner or vegetarian option (£3.50), which can be purchased using their ParentPay account as normal. There is also no additional charge for pupils entitled to free school meals. Those who do not wish to have Christmas lunch should bring a packed lunch please.
Please note There will be a break service on this day however it will be a limited selection. To continue with the festivities there will also be hot chocolate and biscuits available to purchase during break-time. We would like to introduce a pay it forward scheme and more information of this will be available closer to the time. We would also like to ask for any donations of instant hot chocolate, marshmallows, and cream for this.

Christmas Jumper Day, Tuesday 19th December: Along with Christmas Lunch Day, pupils can come to school in their Christmas jumpers, worn with school uniform. We won’t be asking for cash donations for this; however, we would be happy to rehome any outgrown or unwanted Christmas Jumpers.

Thursday 21st December: The school day will finish at 1.30pm for the Christmas holidays. Those pupils who usually travel on school transport will be collected at 1.30pm. We would kindly ask other parents and pupils to make necessary arrangements to be collected at 1.30pm. There will be no transport provision at the normal finish time of 3.20pm. Please note that there will be no lunchtime canteen service on this day, although there will be the usual morning break service. Pupils entitled to free school meals will be able to use their provision at morning break.

• PD Day, Monday 8th January, staff only in school
• Pupils return to school on Tuesday 9th January 2024

Dr Jane Tinker
Headteacher