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• Football Success for MAT

  Thu 30 Sep 2021

  Teams from schools across Severn Bridges MAT have taken part in the Crossbar Cup. Teams from years three, four, five and six competed at Lilleshall on 15^th, 22^nd  and 29^th September.

   

  The teams took part in the annual five-a-side competitions, competing against hundreds of children from across the county. The events, organised by Crossbar Coaching Education in Sport, was staged at Lilleshall’s National Sports Centre.

   

  In the boys’ event on 15^th September, Mount Pleasant’s Year 6 team made it to the quarter finals, and Greenfields’ team narrowly missed out in the semi finals.

   

  A week later in the girls’ event, the Greenfields team won the Crossbar Cup, with Radbrook’s girls’ team coming third in the Crossbar Plate. 

   

  In the third event on 29th September, the Year 3/4 teams displayed their skills, with Radbrook’s team making it through to the quarter finals and the Greenfields team reaching the final.

   

  A huge well done to everyone who took part. Everybody was amazing and played their part in making the overall events so successful.

   

   

  

• Great Start to Partnership Working

  Fri 24 Sep 2021

  September 2021 has seen the launch of an initial cohort for the Early Years Foundation Stage in a partnership between Severn Bridges MAT and the Alliance of Leading and Learning (ALL) at the Marches Academy Trust.

   

  ALL is a lead school for School Direct and has over twenty years’ experience in school-led teacher training and is committed to training teachers to be outstanding at the end of the programme.

   

  This new partnership offers in-house lecturing at Severn Bridges MAT and the Marches Trust, combined with placements in schools and nurseries across both Trusts to provide a comprehensive and practical foundation for aspiring Early Years teachers.

   

  The collaboration has started positively, with four trainees enrolled on the programme. Charlotte Houghton, EYFS Manager at Mount Pleasant Primary School, is seen here with the trainee teachers.

   

   

  

• Run the MAT

  Fri 23 Jul 2021

  A local charity has benefitted from the fundraising efforts of pupils of the three primary schools

   

  A sponsored MAT-wide challenge to run the equivalent distance between the three schools in the MAT – Greenfields Primary School, Mount Pleasant Primary School and Radbrook Primary School – has raised money for a local charity ‘Empathy for Special Children’.

   

  The aim was for children to run around a mile a day during the week of 12^th July. The final day of the five mile challenge saw children coming into school dressed in bright colours to mark the end of the event and run the final mile.

   

  The ‘Run the MAT’ event was the idea of the MAT Parliament, made up of pupil representatives from each school. They chose the charity, which helps to support children living with a hidden disability, to benefit from the fundraising. 

   

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• Speaking Competition Success

  Fri 02 Jul 2021

  A MAT-wide speaking competition was a huge success, with Year 4 pupils from each of the schools talking on a variety of subjects in front of judges from the MAT and the Rotary Club of Shrewsbury.

   

  The speaking skills of Year Four children from across the Severn Bridges MAT were celebrated in what is hoped will become an annual event.

   

  The competition was the idea of one of the Trustees, Mary Pascoe, and was run in partnership with the Rotary Club of Shrewsbury. Mary, and two of her fellow Rotarians Ros McCarthy and Peter Waller were amongst the judges of the competition which saw children speaking for two minutes on a topic of their choice. 

   

  The first rounds were held in the individual schools, and the top two speakers from each school were then invited to a grand final at Radbrook Primary School.

   

  Adam, a pupil from Greenfields Primary School was the competition’s overall winner, but judges were impressed with the way in which all of the pupils rose to the challenge, and spoke with passion about their chosen subjects.

   

   

  

• Severn Bridges welcomes new Trustee

  Fri 25 Jun 2021

  Severn Bridges MAT’s Board has welcomed its newest Trustee.

   

  Martin Kirk, who recently retired after an impressive career is hoping to be able to use his industrial and educational experience to offer advice and give something back to the community in his new role as Trustee. 

   

  Martin’s career began in 1982 when he graduated as a Mechanical Engineer, and he spent ten years working in design engineering. He qualified as a teacher in 1993 and went on to spend twenty years teaching at the Thomas Telford School in Telford, twelve of which were as Head of Physics. He then joined Shrewsbury School in 2011, where he taught as Head of Physics until his retirement last year.

   

  We are very much looking forward to benefiting from Martin’s expertise and experience.

   

   

  

• Shrewsbury School Children Gifted Laptops

  Mon 26 Apr 2021

  Children of Severn Bridges MAT have benefitted from a generous donation from the Rotary Club of Shrewsbury of 9 Chromebooks - three for each school.

   

  CEO Andrew Morris said: "We would like to say a huge thank you to the Rotary Club for their extremely generous donation. These have been a very welcome addition to the schools and the children are already enjoying using the computers."

   

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