Contact Details
- 01214302545
- office@peterbrook.solihull.sch.uk
High Street, Solihull Lodge, Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 1HR
Peterbrook
Primary School
Please find below our latest news.
Peterbrook Primary School lit up the skies with a fantastic display of fireworks organised by their amazing PTFA.
The weather was perfect as our school family joined with the local community to celebrate Bonfire night. We had a roaring bonfire, warming food, a fire-eater and traditional fair rides.
Happy Half Term to all of our families! We will see you all on Monday 31st October - have a lovely break!
Thank you to all the children who entered our History competition - what fantastic entries we had, it was very hard to choose the winners! Congratulations to Charis in Year 6 and Aisha in Year 3 who were chosen as our winners. Here they are enjoying their prizes.
Reception Dine In Day
The Parent Council was delighted to organise two Dine in Days in September for Reception parents and carers to enjoy with their children.
The children felt very proud showing their grown-ups where to go and what to do in the dinner hall, and chatted excitedly with each other over lunch.
After eating, everyone had the chance to enjoy some fun and games outside in the playground - and luckily the rain stayed away for long enough! The children tired the grown-ups out with bike track races, basketball, hop-scotch and running!
Thank you to everyone who was able to attend and to all the children for being such brilliant hosts. We’re grateful to the kitchen staff and lunchtime assistants who were so friendly and welcoming. We would also like to give a special thank you to the Year 6 children who did a special welcome speech, showed everyone to their lunch tables and poured drinks - they were absolute stars!
Here are a few of the lovely comments we received from those who came along:
"He was so excited to have me there and it was great to see what his lunch break is like. I was also happy to see the quality of the food."
"It was a lovely hour. The food was nice and great to see my son eating food he wouldn’t normally try."
"I loved that I could see how my child spends her lunchtime, how she is served her food , where she sits and how she spends her playtime."
"It was lovely to see how my son interacts and plays with other children."
Parent Council would like to thank everyone who completed the Peterbrook Parent Questionnaire recently. This was your chance to share your views on a range of areas and we appreciate you taking the time to complete it.
We received lots of lovely responses about children feeling happy and safe at school, positive comments about school staff being friendly, supportive and helpful, along with encouraging feedback about the school values and its community feel.
We’ve also noticed some areas where you’d like improvements to be made including parent-teacher communication, updates about classroom activities and the curriculum, and more information on children’s individual progress.
Parent Council members are currently reviewing all the submissions and working with school with a view to implementing some changes and improvements as a result of your responses.
Thanks very much again for your contributions and please look out for further updates soon!
Parent Council
We are so pleased that the Reading Volunteers programme, organised by school and Parent Council, is now fully up and running!
Our team of fabulous volunteers completed their first sessions this week, and will be working across all classes from Nursery right through to Year 6.
Some of our volunteers said:
“I did my first session this afternoon with Reception. It was so much fun and felt really good to be able to help the little ones along.”
“I really enjoyed it and what lovely children. I'm looking forward to my next session!”
“I really enjoyed the sessions and the children were so lovely.”
Reading is so important here at Peterbrook and we encourage the children to read as much as possible. Volunteers are helping to ensure the children get extra opportunities to read, in addition to what they already do with teachers and at home.
If you would like to become a Reading Volunteer, please contact the school office, speak to a member of staff or a member of Parent Council.
Parent Council were delighted that Year One parents and carers finally got to enjoy a Dine In Day event with their children recently. This event is normally run for the Reception classes but we were pleased to be able to extend it to Year One this year as they sadly missed out last year due to Covid restrictions.
The children were so excited to show their grown ups what to do in the dinner hall and there was lots of excited chatter over lunch.
After lunch everyone got the chance to enjoy some playground fun. The grown ups were all worn out after lots of games of hide and seek, hop scotch, chalk drawing, and running races!
Thank you to everyone who attended and to all the children for being such fabulous hosts! We’re also grateful to the kitchen staff and lunchtime assistants who were so friendly and welcoming.
We’re hoping to run the same event for the current Reception class later in the term.
Here are a few of the lovely comments we received from those who came along:
“I had such a good time, albeit I am now exhausted! From the moment I arrived everyone was so welcoming and could not have been more helpful. Everything was so well organised and the food was superb, and the ladies in the canteen were marvellous with the children and us adults.”
“The supervising staff were all wonderful, they ushered the children and parents through and made sure we all knew what we were doing. The staff knew all the children by name, even the serving staff who had conversations with the children as they passed through, which I thought was lovely.”
“Outside in the playground was great, the children played so nicely amongst themselves, the play equipment is a super touch to practise skills. The chalks offered lots of imaginative play.”
High Street, Solihull Lodge, Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 1HR