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Year 7 parents and carers are invited to this year’s Year 7 Settling in Evening. It is an ideal opportunity to speak to the staff involved in supporting your child. The evening will start at 6.00pm with a presentation in the Hall covering key aspects of school life that it would be useful to be aware of. This will be followed by a period of time with your child’s Head of House where you will have the opportunity to ask any questions regarding your child’s school life. We would appreciate it if entry into the school is made through the main [...]

Following updated statutory guidance from the Department for Education (Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026), all schools are now legally required to operate as mobile phone-free environments by default throughout the entire school day. To comply with this national statutory requirement, our school policy has been updated: Storage: If students choose to bring a mobile phone to school (for example, for their journey to and from school), it must be switched off and kept inside their school bag at all times while on school grounds. Phones must not be kept in blazer or trouser pockets. This will be explained to students to [...]

Due to the current hot weather conditions that would cause the Hall to do its best impression of a working oven, it has become necessary to postpone the KS4 Awards Evening on Thursday 25th June. We will look at whether we can reorganise the evening to occur as normal on an alternative date as it would be our preference to celebrate the achievements of our students in person. We will let you know as soon as a contingency has been considered.

Due to the current prolonged hot weather conditions, we have made the decision to close school early today, Wednesday 24th June, and the same for Thursday 25th and Friday 26th June. School will close to students at 1.15pm for the remainder of the week. Students being collected by parents/carers should not be collected before 1.15pm, to allow us to manage dismissal safely and in an orderly way. Please be assured that we will always endeavour to keep school open wherever possible. However, we must also consider the health, safety and wellbeing of students and staff on site, particularly during periods of [...]

We are planning to enable the Parents’ Evening to be a hybrid of in person and video calls via School Cloud. This is in response to parental feedback that the option of video calls was very much appreciated, whilst the majority would prefer to be in person. To enable this to work effectively we have blocked together the appointment opportunities: Video appointments will be between 4 – 4.15pm, In person appointments will be between 4.20 – 6.55pm. We are unable to do video appointments outside of the designated time due to the normal logistics of a Parents’ Evening. The school utilises [...]

We are planning to enable the Parents’ Evening to be a hybrid of in person and video calls via School Cloud. This is in response to parental feedback that the option of video calls was very much appreciated, whilst the majority would prefer to be in person. To enable this to work effectively we have blocked together the appointment opportunities: Video appointments will be between 4 – 4.15pm, In person appointments will be between 4.20 – 6.55pm. We are unable to do video appointments outside of the designated time due to the normal logistics of a Parents’ Evening. The school utilises [...]

CCBC Friends, The Community College’s PTA, is running a raffle to raise funds on behalf of the College. There are numerous excellent prizes available including four passes to West Midlands Safari Park, Four tickets to The Climbing Hut in Shrewsbury, a hamper full of goodies and many more. The tickets are £1 each and are available from the ParentPay Shop, just follow this link – ParentPayShop . There will also be tickets available during the school production of The Wizard of Oz on Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th February. The draw for the prizes will take place at the final performance [...]

We are planning to enable the Parents’ Evening to be a hybrid of in person and video calls via School Cloud. This is in response to parental feedback that the option of video calls was very much appreciated, whilst the majority would prefer to be in person. To enable this to work effectively we have blocked together the appointment opportunities: Video appointments will be between 4 – 4.15pm, In person appointments will be between 4.25 – 6.55pm. We are unable to do video appointments outside of the designated time due to the normal logistics of a Parents’ Evening. The school utilises [...]

I am sure that you are aware of the weather conditions that are expected across the country from Thursday evening through to Friday morning. The local authority has cancelled all school transport on Friday 9th January due to the expected conditions. As a result the school will be closed on Friday  9th January to all students and staff. Students will be set remote learning for the day according to their timetable. They will be able to access this via Go4Schools. We hope that conditions are more settled by Monday for us to return to school as normal. In the meantime please stay [...]

At the Community College we take safeguarding and safety very seriously. It is important that we continue to review all our procedures, taking into account even those events that are very unlikely to occur. As part of this process, we have a procedure called “lockdown”. The need to use this procedure is rare, to put this into context in the last 6 years the school has only needed to implement this procedure once. We will be practicing this procedure on Thursday 6th November.  What is a lockdown and when would we carry it out? A lockdown procedure is a standard health [...]