Bugingham Palace

The forest schools fairies left us the challenge of making a bug habitat for the creatures that live in the Forest Schools area. We talked about the kinds of materials that we would need to put inside the tins. Some children used the drills to drill holes in the sign. Some children cut bamboo to put in one of the rooms in Buginham Palace.

Key Stage Two Forest Schools Club

Key Stage Two Forest Schools club took place over two Mondays, children who attended learnt about setting simple tracks for friends to follow, making dens, simple knots and fire lighting. Children learnt the importance of fire safety including how to dispose of a fire and how to manage the fire safely. The really enjoyed toasting marshmallows on a fire that they had helped to make! In week one we learnt to tie a clove hitch knot, we were so busy having fun that we forgot to take photos!

The Enormous Turnip

When we were doing our morning run we spotted that an enormous turnip had grown where we had planted some turnip seeds before the half term holidays. We worked together as a team to try to pull the turnip out of the ground. We went back to class and read different versions of the traditional tale: “The enormous turnip” and compared the stories. We talked about the differences and the similarities. We talked about traditional tales and that there are lots of different versions of each tale and we played a guessing game. Some children re told their favourite traditional tales.

Creating a town

We had made our own wooden vehicle toys, this group of girls created a town with car parks etc. for their toy vehicles.

Victorian School experience


We spent an hour being Victorian School children! We dressed up, set our classroom up as a Victorian Classroom and used a slate to write on. We went through the rules of a Victorian School and Mrs Noden was very strict in her role as a Miss!

How does your garden grow?

We are having a great time in the garden on a Friday afternoon, reading, planting, watering and weeding. Last week we started a wellie garden, weeded the butterfly garden and saw some flowers that were starting to grow. We planted some lettuce seeds and some turnip seeds after we had read the story “The Enormous Turnip”.

Our First Class Assembly

We were really proud of all the children in our class for speaking, singing and presenting so well!

Hodnet School in the past

We looked at photos of Hodnet School in the past (when Mrs Noden was a little girl). The children compared photos from now and photos from Mrs Noden’s time at Hodnet School. The children noticed lots of similarities and lots of differences, such as black boards and no interactive white boards and children wearing no school uniform.

Preparing a Butterfly garden


We read a wonderful story called “Ben plants a butterfly garden” and decided that we would like to create our own butterfly patch in our garden. Some of us prepared the soil, others went and collected more top soil from a patch of mole hills in forest schools. We planted a wild flower mix and also some nasturtiums. Some of us searched for butterfly eggs around the garden and some of us took mint cuttings which we put in water to see if they would grow roots. We finished off our day with a snack of water melon and reading our class book Peepo in the sun.

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