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!

10 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.

12 months ago
Posted on 03rd Jun 2025 by Emma Noden

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.

12 months ago
Posted on 30th May 2025 by Emma Noden

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.

12 months ago
Posted on 29th May 2025 by Emma Noden

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!

12 months ago
Posted on 29th May 2025 by Emma Noden

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”.

12 months ago
Posted on 29th May 2025 by Emma Noden

Our First Class Assembly

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

12 months ago
Posted on 22nd May 2025 by Emma Noden

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.

12 months ago
Posted on 16th May 2025 by Penny Lyall

318 Belonging Framework reminder

There is now just a week to go until the official launch of The 3-18 Education Trust’s Belonging Framework! Watch the launch video here.

The Belonging Framework is designed to guide and support staff, parents/carers and external agencies to offer appropriate knowledge and tools which help students in our schools to feel valued and understood. This is something that school and Trust staff have been working on throughout this academic year, led by Sadie Howson our Trust Director of Safeguarding and SEND.

To celebrate the Belonging Framework the Trust has launched a Trust-wide competition to encourage our students to start thinking about what belonging means in their school.

Students from all schools have been invited to submit a creative response to the brief, with house points for all participants and an Amazon voucher for each school’s winning entry.

The deadline for entries is Friday 23^rd May.

In our school we have shared the launch video in classes and started to think about what belonging means to us as classes and as a school. Children are encouraged to participate in the competition to share what belonging means to them, this could be in a variety of ways – a picture, words, poem, dance or a piece of art work. Get creative! We look forward to seeing your entries.

We will be selecting a Belonging Ambassador for our school based on the competition entries. All schools will have Belonging Ambassadors, who will work as a team to support the essential sense of belonging within their schools.

1 year ago
Posted on 11th May 2025 by Emma Noden

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.