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The UK Blessing At this unique and challenging time in the United Kingdom over 65 churches and movements, representing hundreds of others, have come together online to sing a blessing over our land. Standing together as one, our desire is that this song will fill you with hope and encourage you. But the church is not simply singing a blessing, each day we're looking to practically be a blessing. Many of the churches included in this song have assisted with supplying over 400,000 meals to the most vulnerable and isolated in our nation since COVID-19 lockdown began. This alongside phone calls to the isolated, pharmacy delivery drops and hot meals to the NHS frontline hospital staff. Our buildings may be closed but the church is very much alive!

Rushbury CE Primary School: Statutory Inspection of Methodist and Anglican Schools, March 2020

SIAMS Inspection Report, March 2020

Our Church School History

The school sits close to St Peter’s Church in the centre of the village. It became a Church of England (CE) school in 1904 and a voluntary controlled school in 1947. From 1904 the county council rented the school, and later the Sycamores, from the Wainwright Trust for a nominal rent. The school is supported by the Diocesan Board of Education, based in Ludlow, which is part of the Diocese of Hereford.

The school has varied in size over the years. After the 1870 Education Act the roll reached 113. Over time, with school closures and amalgamations, the catchment area has grown. In 1927 pupils from the closed Eaton-Under-Heywood CE School were admitted. In 1968 a demountable classroom was added and in 1982 pupils from the closed Cardington CE Primary School were admitted.

Apedale Parish Churches

St Peter's, Rushbury

St James', Cardington

St Edith's, Eaton

St Andrew's, Hope Bowdler