Reception

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2 years ago
Posted on 14th Apr 2025 by

Classroom Easter activities

We had a wonderful week leading up to the Easter holidays, creating Easter patterns on eggs, Easter egg hunts (phonics related), creating repeating patterns and making stained glass windows inspired by those we saw in Hodnet Church the week before.

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Posted on 14th Apr 2025 by

Easter party fun with Pre School

We had a great Easter party with Pre School on Tuesday afternoon, rescuing eggs, rolling eggs, decorating biscuit eggs and paper eggs, making rabbit ear headbands, sharing Easter books, going on an egg hunt and matching Easter eggs. We finished off the party with an Easter bunny biscuit, an Easter story and a game of Sleeping Bunnies.

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Posted on 12th Apr 2025 by

Easter Forest Schools fun

We had a great morning thinking about Easter in Forest Schools, toasting hot cross buns (we talked about the cross on the top), completing an egg hunt with phonics reading clues and making traditional Easter gardens. We all put a cross in our Easter gardens as we had been learning about the Christian Easter story in RE.

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2 years ago
Posted on 04th Apr 2025 by

Goodbye Mrs Akers!

Today we said goodbye to Mrs Akers as she leaves us for pastures new. In celebration assembly we presented her with plants, flowers, gifts and cards to express our gratitude for the joy that she has brought to our school throughout her time here. A truly special person, we shall all miss you greatly.

Mrs Akers alongside Mrs Noden has provided children in our reception classes with the very best start to their learning journey. They open children’s minds to endless possibilities, create a love of learning and begin to establish and foster early relationships. Getting learning right in the early years plays a crucial role to establishing future success; creating the essential foundations for further opportunities. We have been so lucky to have such a strong team at Hodnet over the years.

Mrs Akers we thank you for all that you have done over the years and we wish you continued happiness and future success. We look forward to hopefully seeing you in school with trainee’s as you guide them on their path to being excellent early years educators.

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 01st Apr 2025 by

Visiting St Luke’s Church

As part of our learning about special buildings we visited St Lukes Church, Hodnet. We walked down “Magnolia walk” in Hodnet Hall gardens and saw lots of signs of spring. When we were in the church we searched for elements of the building that show that it is a special building.

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Posted on 26th Mar 2025 by

Shropshire Falconry visit

What a great experience we had on Tuesday afternoon meeting some birds, some of use held some an owl. We all watched the owls fly around our school hall and we learnt lots about how birds are different to other animals.

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 24th Mar 2025 by

Healthy Teeth

We had a visit from the school nurse who bought a friend with her called Dennis the Dragon, we all practised brushing Dennis’s teeth and played a game sorting the things that would make happy teeth and things that would make teeth sad because

they had too much sugar.

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2 years ago
Posted on 24th Mar 2025 by

The Hungry Beak Cafe

The fairies had written us another letter, this time thanking us for all the bird feeders we had made. They told us that they were setting up a “Hungry Beak” café and they needed some new recipes. We innovated our own bird pizzas and took photos of all the stages so that we can write our own instructions for making a bird pizza. We talked about the imperative verbs that we would use in an instruction text like this.

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Posted on 19th Mar 2025 by

Making birds nests

We have learnt about different birds making birds nests, we watched videos of blue tits making nests and robins. We read a book about different kinds of birds nests, called Best Nest and a story called “The Prefect Nest”. We also watched a video about puffins nests. The children then used the “scrap modelling” materials to create their own Perfect nest for a bird and talked about the materials they chose based on their qualities.