September 2009

Dear Parent/Carer

I would like to extend a very warm invitation to you to attend our Open Evening which this year will be held at Meole Brace School on Wednesday 30 September between 5.30 pm and 8.00 pm.  In addition the School will be open to visitors on this day between 9.15 am and 11am.

The aim of the evening is to introduce you and your family to Meole Brace School.  During the course of the evening you will be able to find out about the very wide range of activities and facilities on offer as well as speak to students and staff about the day-to-day life of the school.  Please use the open evening to ask all sorts of questions about the school.  If you have any specific questions Mr Pierce (Deputy Head), Mr Tillman and Mr Iddon (Assistant Heads) and Mrs Burke (Headteacher) will be available on a rota basis in the Foyer/Hall area.

This is always a popular evening, and we normally see several hundred visitors.  To give you all the opportunity to talk to students and staff in a leisurely way, I suggest a staggered start to the evening along the following lines based upon the schools from which we admitted children last year:-

Parents and children from:

Holy Cross, Longden, Meole Brace, Radbrook                                        5.30 pm

Coleham, Longmeadow, Oxon and St George's             

Greenacres, Greenfields, Harlescott, Mount Pleasant,

St Giles, St Lucia's Upton Magna, St Thomas' and St Anne's

Hanwood, St Winefrides, Trinity, Pontesbury, Westbury,

Martin Wilson, Wilfred Owen and Condover                                              6.10pm                                                          

Parents and children from other schools are most welcome to attend at any time.

Whilst you must feel free to visit at a convenient time for your family, I would appreciate your help in this matter.

Please bring your children along.  The evening is for them as well as parents.

There will be areas where displays/activities will be taking place and you will be handed a programme when you arrive.  Prefects will be on hand to take you to your starting point and guides will be available to help you.

All our guides and students are present on a voluntary basis and will be happy to chat to you.

School will also be open to visitors from 9.15am to 11.00am on Wednesday 30 September when a student or member of staff will be on hand to show you around.  The car park by the synthetic sports pitch/sports hall will be open to cars during the morning.  An estimation of numbers for the morning would be helpful so that I can arrange guides.  A telephone call or note giving the school advance notice would be appreciated.  Whether it is a planned visit or a last minute decision, I look forward to meeting you during the course of the morning and/or evening on Wednesday 30 September.

Yours sincerely         

Mr R Tillman

Assistant Headteacher

September 2009

Dear Parent

EARLY CLOSURE - 1.55PM - WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER

OPEN EVENING

School will close early on the afternoon of Wednesday 30 September.  Normal lessons will run through to the end of period 4 at 1.55pm.  Arrangements have been made for the normal school buses to collect students at 1.55pm and I would be grateful if parents could make appropriate arrangements for students arriving home early as well as for those students who go home by other means.  If there are particular problems please let me know.

I am grateful for the considerable support which so many students give to Open Evening.  Many of them are present working and answering questions from well before 5.30pm to after 8.00pm.  These students will now have the opportunity for a break in the afternoon.  The early closure also gives the school the opportunity to prepare for this very important event.

Yours sincerely

Hilary Burke

Headteacher