Thank you for your kindness and generosity with staff cards and gifts. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New year.

Welcome back to the spring term, what a week it has been!

We started with our usual Hodnet steely determination, by opening on Monday in such freezing conditions. A big thank you to all those who enabled our opening, highlighting once again our strong community spirit. The children had a wonderful snow day in school, pictures on a separate post.

We end the week learning from home, not expected at all, but we have all made the best of it I’m sure. Thank you for your understanding with today’s decision to closed for health and safety reasons. As we had fallen branches in addition to the snow/ice, I couldn’t take the risk of opening in case any unseen branches or hazards posed a threat to safety on site.

Huge thank you to Mr Noden who has cleared the branches for us and walked our site with our caretaker, Jemma, satisfied that all hazards are cleared. He was up and ready to clear in preparation for us attending school this morning, great Noden team effort in a bid to keep us open! Something we always aim to do, if we can safely.  Massive thank you also to Jemma who was checking our building for power, after our outage overnight, and general condition at 6am this morning and walking our site informing me of the conditions. Great team effort as always at Hodnet school. Always proud to be part of our amazing team.

We look forward to opening as usual on Monday morning.

Our curriculum and coffee morning events will be on next week for paretns. 8.45-9.15am. Full list on our diary dates.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Lyall.

Due to staff absence at the end of term, we will catch up the missed session in the new year. The planned session includes a campfire and therefore requires additional resources and risk assessments, as such, this won’t be in the first week. We will notify you in the new year of the date and further developments with this club.

Thank you for your understanding.

A message from Rev Chris:

Thank you for using our Church, it is always such a blessing to have you all there. The children are so gifted and I can see that the staff are bringing the best out in each child.

The Blessing for all;

May the joy of the angels,

The eagerness of the shepherds

The perseverance of the wise men

And the obedience of Mary and Joseph

And the peace of the Christchild be yours this Christmas.

The blessing of God almighty, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,

be among you and remain with you always. Amen

Hodnet Christmas Services;

Sunday 21^st December 5.30 Lessons and Carols

Wednesday 24^th December 3pm Crib Service

Thursday 25^th December 11am, Christmas day communion.

Have a wonderful Christmas. With thanks and blessings of peace.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the collection in church yesterday for school well-being. We raised £133.19p which will be used in the spring term.

Thank you to the families who joined us in church yesterday, great to see so many people supporting our school.

Thank you to the parents and grandparents who gave up their time to walk with us to church, we couldn’t walk up without you! Such a lovely walk through Hodnet Hall Gardens, shame the weather was so awful. Thank you to the Heber-Percy family and Gardens team for allowing us to walk through every term, enabling our children to experience the richness of the gardens as they walk.

Thank you to our Y6 pupils who walked with their class R buddies, demonstrating responsible attitudes and supporting and guiding our youngest pupils with their decision making. Also for talking to them, helping them with quality conversations and turn taking. The two classes have built up a great bond this term, lovely to see.

Finally thank you to the volunteers at St Luke’s who kindly enable us to have a termly service in their wonderful church. Something we would not be able to provide without their generosity to our community.

Well done to everyone who received awards yesterday in church. We are very proud of you.

The termly value awards and special awards go to:

• Respect Award – Emily in class 6 for showcasing respect at all times and being an enthusiastic learner and a joy to have in school.
• Resilience Award – Ben in class R for never giving up and always embracing school life – a fantastic start, well done, keep it up Ben.
• Responsibility Award – Beatrice P  in class 5 for showing commitment and dedication to the many responsible roles she holds in school. Well done.
• Music and Performing Arts Award – Kiaan in class 4 for showcasing his fantastic trumpet talents in our 318 Orchestra this term.