8 months ago
Posted on 18th Sep 2025 by Emma Noden

Fitness

This term in our PE sessions with Mr Ward we are working on fitness. Today (out in the sun) we took part in activities to help improve our fitness and stamina.

8 months ago
Posted on 13th Sep 2025 by Emma Noden

We learnt the phoneme t

We found a tent in our outdoor area and enjoyed reading the story of the Tiger who came to tea in it (while eating our snack). We put our phonic knowledge into action when helping the tiger decide what he could take for tea at Sophie’s house. The tiger could only take items that started with the /t/ sound.

We had a tea party, played with trucks in the gravel pit, practised sorting objects according to their initial sound and worked on recognising both the lower and upper case t. We had a go at forming the letter t too.

What a busy morning Class R!

8 months ago
Posted on 13th Sep 2025 by Emma Noden

Our First Woodland Wednesday

We enjoyed our first Woodland Wednesday in the glorious September sunshine!

We have had the best morning helping Brown Bear who we found in our storytelling area this morning. Brown Bear came to our school to tell us a story but sadly all of the characters and their colours had gone missing in our woodland area.
Our mission (as worded by one of our Class R pupils) was to find the animals and their colours to put the story back together.

Brown Bear was very pleased to see us working so well with our partners to find the characters and their colours, and put the story back together. We enjoyed the story with Brown Bear. In the end, he was happy and so were we!

8 months ago
Posted on 12th Sep 2025 by Emma Noden

We learnt the phoneme a

We picked the apples from the garden orchard to help us remember our new phoneme. Some of us helped to cut up the apples so we could put them in the dehydrator and make apple crisps. We really enjoyed eating the apples!

8 months ago
Posted on 12th Sep 2025 by Emma Noden

Learning the phoneme s

We learnt the phoneme s and did lots of exploring – we explored snails, sunflowers, sunflower seeds, sand, stones, slates, made snakes from playdough and lots more!

8 months ago
Posted on 12th Sep 2025 by Emma Noden

Our first day at Hodnet School

We had a great first day at school and really enjoyed exploring our new classroom and the school community!

8 months ago
Posted on 12th Sep 2025 by Emma Noden

Celebrating Roald Dahl Day 2025

We marked Roald Dahl day by reading an extract from The Twits, describing Mr Twit. We then wrote our own descriptions of Mr Twit’s beard and played lots of Roald Dahl games, created great glass elevators from magnetic tiles and designed our own Mr Twit beards!

11 months ago
Posted on 06th Jul 2025 by Emma Noden

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.

11 months ago
Posted on 06th Jul 2025 by Emma Noden

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!