Sadly Miss Hayes, one of our Y3 SENTA’s leaves us today to take up a permanent TA role in another school. Miss Hayes has been with us since September and will be missed, we wish her all the best for the future.

A reminder that children need sun hats and water bottles in school daily. Sun cream should be applied before coming to school. School staff are not able to apply sun cream. Thank you for your cooperation with this. Lets hope we have some much needed sunshine soon!

Uniform reminder – please ensure children are coming to school in correct uniform. Shoes need to be worn, not trainers or boots. Leggings and cycling shorts are not school uniform. Some children choose to wear cycling shorts under their summer dresses, that is fine. Please refer to the uniform policy if you are unsure.

Weekly house point totals are:

Owls = 184

Badgers = 171

Squirrels = 156

Foxes = 151

Well done to the Owls team.

Well done to everyone who received awards or shout outs today. We are very proud of you.

• Class R – Henry, for his super attitude towards writing. What a wise whale, well done.
• Class 1 – Georgia, for fantastic effort to work independently this week.
• Class 2 – Sophie, for a positive can do attitude to learning, well done.
• Class 3 – Josh, for engaging enthusiastically in his learning.
• Class 4 – Lucas, for resilience and perseverance, well done we are very proud of you.
• Class 5 – Arthur G, for working hard and showcasing a positive learning attitude.
• Class 6 – for all the Fabulous Year Six!
• Headteacher’s award this week goes to everyone! Y6 for their hard work and the rest of school for their kindness, encouragement, patience and understanding.
• Raffle ticket – Summer
• Lunchtime award – Harry B in Y2 for his excellent manners.

Well done to everyone who received awards or shoutouts this week, we are very proud of you.

• Class R – Grace
• Class 1 – Eden
• Class 2 – Harry B
• Class 3 – Theo
• Class 4 – Maeve
• Class 5 – Ethan
• Class 6 – Lola

Congratulations to all our chosen Book Worms, your reading at home and school was excellent this week.

This term we have been reviewing our school vision statement:

Enabling our children to learn and succeed in a nurturing environment. 

In assemblies we have been thinking about our school, what Hodnet means to us and collecting words to showcase that. The children generated some excellent ideas, some examples of their words are:

Welcoming, respectful, thoughtful, kind, happy, safe, successful, democratic, determined, equal, fair, accepting, fun, amazing, fantastic, excellent.

In Staff meetings we have also discussed this statement and ways to update it, one simple update suggestion is:

“Enabling all children to flourish in a safe, nurturing and welcoming learning environment”

Our governors will also be looking at this over the summer term. We would like to open this up to all stakeholders, asking parents who have any suggestions of either words or phrases which they would like to add to this review process, to please email ideas/suggestions to penny.lyall@hod.318education.co.uk.

Thank you.