2 years ago
Posted on 11th Sep 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

What Do Plants Need?

We looked at what a plant needs to survive. We divided into groups and each group looked at a different element such a light, water, soil, air and the correct temperature. We observed our young broad bean plants over a week and then looked at the results.

2 years ago
Posted on 05th Jul 2024 by Penny Lyall

Uniform

A reminder that full uniform is expected at all times. Even though we are approaching the end of term, that shouldn’t mean that we let pride in our uniform standards slip. We wear our Hodnet blue, to show that we are part of our school team, we are smart, proud and ready to learn. We are also adhering to our school rules and values by wearing the correct uniform, as it is a school policy to wear it.

Uniform is a fundamental part of most schools and other organisations procedures, ensuring communities are unified. Our children will find high expectations of uniform standards right through their educational career, so we aim high from the beginning.

We also recognise that our children require parental support to ensure they are adhering to our uniform policy. Thank you to parents and families for your cooperation with this.

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We have lots of uniform free to families due to the high number of good quality donations that we receive. Please pop into the lobby to take a look of you would like some.

Mrs Lyall, Headteacher.

2 years ago
Posted on 28th Jun 2024 by Miss Jenny Darmanin

Sports day Champions!

Well done to all of children for such a fabulous Sports day!
Great teamwork and sportsmanship by all.

It was a close race but, in the end, the Foxes won the trophy!

2 years ago
Posted on 09th Jun 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

Enchanted Apples and Magic Stories

This week, Class 3 started a new English unit on portal stories. Our hook lesson involved imaging that the basket of apples Mrs Williams brought in contained one enchanted apple. In the story-telling area, we each ate an apple and imagined what magic power it might have. Some of us thought the magic apple might make us a champion footballer or give us a secret voice, only audible to animals. We had great ideas.

We also thought of some lovely adjectives to describe our apples as we ate them such as; crunch, juicy, delicious, tasty to name but a few. Mrs Williams then read us our model text; a story about a little girl Poppy who finds an ancient, wooden door which takes her to a world of fantastic feasts and tiny people. Our work in the coming weeks will be inspired by this story when we will write our own portal tales.

2 years ago
Posted on 23rd May 2024 by Penny Lyall

Tomato Plant investigation

We have been learning in Science about what a plant needs to grow well. To investigate this more fully we got into groups and each were given a young tomato plant. Each group decided what they were going to deprive their plant of for a week; the options were water, light, warmth, air and soil.

After a week we compared the results with our control plant which had all of these. We were surprised to find out that the plant in sand (instead of soil) grew well although it wasn’t quite as big as the control. The plant deprived of water and the one deprived of warmth drooped and wilted very much. The plant deprived of air wilted a little. We decided that water and light were the most important for a growing planted.

We also made videos in our groups to explain our findings. Each groups had a director, presenter, plant expert, production assistant, camera person and script writer.

2 years ago
Posted on 21st May 2024 by Katrina Huxtable

Severn Trent Water Visit

This week, Class 3, 4 and 5 enjoyed a visit from Severn Trent Water who brought their amazing interactive buses to bring the wonders of water to life.

On the Digibus, the children watched an animated video, journeying across the world to see how vital water is. This was followed by an interactive quiz using digital keypads! The children had the chance to put on some virtual reality glasses and enter a world where they tracked a raindrop, learning how it is purified before and after visiting our home.

In the Experibus, the children stepped into the role of a water worker. They used detective skills, including testing samples of water, to work out which place was responsible for polluting the water supply.

The children also enjoyed some fun games on the playground. The giant board game taught us why we need to value water as a precious resource and the ‘flush it or bin it’ relay, with realistic props, was a real hit!!

2 years ago
Posted on 16th May 2024 by Penny Lyall

Science Gadget Shop

Next week is our school Science Enrichment week. We are running the science gadget shop again this year as it has proved highly successful in previous years. Children can bring a small amount of money to purchase science related toys and games. Most items are between 50p and £2.50. Miss Evans, our science coordinator, will run it during lunchtime on Wednesday and Thursday.

Parents are asked to send a small amount of money in with their child, in a named envelope, to enable them to visit the shop. All profits from the gadget shop will go towards new school science equipment.

2 years ago
Posted on 15th May 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

Chocolate Tasting

As part of our explanation text writing this term, we have been writing about how chocolate is made. With all of the learning about and writing about chocolate, our mouths were watering so we decided to taste melted chocolate with fruit. As we ate we thought about the journey the chocolate had made from the bean or pod to the bar to our tummies. Needless to say, we really enjoyed this exploring lesson and it helped us very much with our writing.

2 years ago
Posted on 01st May 2024 by Mrs Ceri Williams

Cadbury World trip

On Wednesday 1st May, Class 3 and 4 went on a trip to Cadbury World in Birmingham. We learnt more about the fascinating ancient civilisation of the Maya and discovered their involvement in the early history of cocoa in c. AD 900. We found out that they made a drink out of cacao pods and that this eventually became fashionable in the UK, when John Cadbury started making hot chocolate and selling it in his shops. We also learnt about the current journey of chocolate from bean to bar and, of course, tasted some yummy chocolate as well as going on rides and touring the factory.