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School in Focus: Bowbrook Prm Sch in Shrewsbury.
Shropshire Star
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23/01/2025
Bowbrook Prm Sch in Shrewsbury is a brand new school . We catch up with the head and some pupils to say hello.
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School in focus time and we're here in Shrewsbury at Bowbrook School. Hello sir. Hiya, nice to see you.
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So you're head teacher? Yeah. How long you've been involved in it? It's a new school isn't it?
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It's a brand new school, opened September 2024. Yeah. Is that correct? Sorry, it's September 2023.
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Yeah. We're a year and a term old at the moment. Really exciting. Priding ourselves on being the
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School of Opportunity. So a lot of what we do is all about the enrichment for the children
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and the sort of visits and visitors and things that we can provide for them. So that's a key
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part of our curriculum. It's a really exciting time. We're growing from scratch. So we started
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off with 21 children in reception and just five in nursery and five members of staff. So we've
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quadrupled in terms of children and we're going to keep getting bigger, but we're still trying
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to maintain that community feel at the moment. So it's very exciting. I'm really proud of what
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we've managed to establish here and hopefully it's going to continue. And you've got some great
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rooms. We saw a treehouse in the library. That's a first for me. I mean, we're blessed with a lot
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of space. You know, we've got a dance studio, we've got a cookery room. We're looking at having
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a music room and IT suite. So we're very, very lucky at the moment. Now obviously that space,
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as the school gets bigger, that space will diminish, but we're looking at extending the
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building a little bit further. So yeah, it's really exciting times for us all. And a lovely
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sensory room. I nearly nodded off myself in there. That was fantastic. Yeah, it's nice. I mean,
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obviously it's the modern world now, isn't it? And we're looking to sort of mindfulness as a
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key part of the curriculum and that relaxation and yoga are sort of some of the things that we offer.
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And just remind me, what do you call the room we saw the kids with the blue blocks? What's that?
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That's in our dance studio. That's the imagination playground. Yeah. So that's a chance for the
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children to build and be physical. And a lot of the children love quite physical and active,
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and it's an opportunity for them to work up some bit of energy and bit of an appetite.
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So we've seen, we saw a visiting nurse. So that kind of filled in with the ethos of what you were
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saying. So we've got a nurse in today. We've had a doctor in, we've had a fireman in, you know,
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don't talk a little bit about people in our community. And it's about having role models
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for our children, which I think is really important. So we often have a lot of visitors in
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just trying to, like I said, trying to provide those role models.
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Great stuff. Well, thank you for letting us take a look around.
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Here in the cooking room, and who've we got? What's your name, young man?
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Parker.
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Parker. Great name. And who've we got with you, Parker? What's your name?
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Reuben.
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Parker, Reuben.
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And Debbie.
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And?
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Alma.
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Cool. So do you like cooking, guys?
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Yeah.
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Yeah. What's your favourite food? What do you like to eat the most? Go on, chicken.
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Cookies.
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Cookies. Good answer.
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Cookies.
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Cookies for you. What about you, mate?
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Cookies.
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Not cookies for you as well.
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Pancakes.
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Pancakes. That's good. What would you put on your pancake? A bit of chocolate sauce,
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bit of lemon? Yeah, a bit of everything. Good stuff. Thank you, guys. Well, enjoy your cooking lesson.
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