Supertato English Talk for Writing Unit

A few weeks ago we were shocked to find some vegetables in our classroom who were being taunted by the Evil Pea. During this Talk For Writing unit we have been writing speech bubbles, thinking of and writing questions and answers for characters in the story, learning the text using a text map and writing our own versions of the story. Children came up with their own villain character (Evil Pizza, Evil ice cream, Evil Broccoli are some examples) and their own super hero character (Super Broccoli, Super Carrot etc). Children used the model text to guide their writing of their own fast pacing story!

Calendar art competition painting

We had a great morning creating some April themed paintings with the Market Drayton arts council volunteers.

Year of Reading – April – Reading outside!

2026 is the National Year of Reading. At Hodnet School, we have created a Year of Reading moment for each month and April have children the opportunity to read outside. The weather has been glorious and perfect for enjoying a book in the beautiful grounds of our school!

Summer term events

The key dates for this term are:

April:

  • Tue 28th – Whole school painting with local artists (MD calendar)

May:

  • Fri 1st – DEAR 3pm (no phones please)
  • Mon 4th – Bank holiday, school closed
  • Fri 8th – David Attenborough Day
  • Mon 11th – Thur 14th – Y6 SATS testing week
  • Mon 18th – Y4 Pentecost Workshop
  • Wed 20th – YR Class assembly 9am, YR parents welcome
  • Fri 22nd – break up for half term.

June:

  • Mon 1st – School re-opens
  • Tue 2nd – YR visit to Shrewsbury Museum
  • Fri 5th – DEAR 3pm (no phones please)
  • Mon 8th – Y1 Phonics screening week
  • Thur 11th – New YR (26/27) parents evening 5.30pm
  • Tue 16th – Y4 trip to Cadbury World
  • Wed 17th – Y1 Class assembly, 9am Y1 parents welcome
  • Wed 17th – Y2 Trip to Chester Zoo
  • Thur 18th – Y5 Taster day to Thomas Adams School
  • Fri 19th – Father’s Day lunch & Sports Day afternoon
  • Mon 22nd – Armed forces week TBC
  • Thur 25th – New YR intake in school 9-11am
  • Fri 26th – Y5&6 London visit
  • Mon 29th & Tue 30th – Y6 move up day to Grove School
  • Mon 29th – Wed 1st – Y6 move up day to SJT
  • Tue 30th – Local governing body meeting
  • Tue 30th – New YR intake in school 1.15-3.15

July:

  • Fri 3rd – DEAR 3pm (no phones please)
  • Mon 6th & Tue 7th – Y6 move up day to Thomas Adams School
  • Mon 6th & Tue 7th –  Move up sessions for each class
  • Tue 7th – New YR intake in all day. KS1 full day move up.
  • Wed 8th – Y1 Art trip to Shrewsbury Museum
  • Mon 13th – Y6 church retreat day
  • Wed 15th – Y3 Egyptian workshop
  • Thur 16th – Church service, 2pm at St Luke’s, Hodnet
  • Fri 17th – End of year reports out to parents
  • Mon 20th – Rock Steady concert
  • Mon 20th – Optional drop in parents evening
  • Mon 20th – Y6 play at 6.30pm
  • Tue 21st – Y6 end of term trip
  • Wed 22nd – Leavers assembly 9am
  • Wed 22nd – School closes for summer. Reopening on Wed 2nd Sept.

Learning about money

We have recently been learning about money in maths, we used coins to work out how we would pay for different items in a pretend shop and then progressed and learnt how to give the correct change from £1. We learnt that £1 is the same as 100p and so used the number line method to subtract the amount we were paying from 100.

Easter artwork

In order to create part of our Easter cards we practised the art skill of colour mixing, specifically creating different tints. We then used the colours we had made to create a beautiful egg for our cards.

Jungle artwork

Inspired by Henri Rousseau we created our own pieces of artwork: A Tiger in a tropical storm. We used various techniques to create the overall piece of artwork: pencil sketching, using pastels to create a pouncing tiger, layering, printing, collage and water colour painting. The pieces we created were pretty spectacular!

Hockey Match at Maurice Chandler

 

Well done to Year 2 and Year 5 who took part in the Hockey Tournament at Maurice Chandler this week.

The competition was good fun and we worked well as a team. It was a really good experience for everyone. Before our matches we practised with another school who were really friendly.

By Leah ( Class 5)

World book day fun

Class 2 had a wonderful day marking World Book day on Friday. Our costumes were all fantastic and we had great fun in the whole school assembly. Back in class we created wanted posters for a “book traitor”, made our own mini books, played games involving book characters, some of us read books to the school ginea pigs, some of us created comic strip type books and made something from a book from lego. In our forest schools session during the afternoon we read a book called: “Not a stick”, we were inspired to pick up a stick and use our imagination to use it alongside our play.

A Journey Story

This week we started our English Talk for Writing unit learning about journey stories and how to write one. We read the text Meerkat Mail and found out about Sonny the meerkat who goes on a journey. We made our own text maps and also wrote letters to the Jekeil who had taken Sonny from our classroom. The last photo is an extract of an excellent letter!