Santa shop 12.12.25

See details below about the PTA Santa shop taking place on Friday 12th December.

Please send money in a named envelope. Thank you to our PTA team for organising this great event for our children, every year they love the excitement of coming to the shop to buy a present for their family. Its always a busy (even if slightly chaotic!) festive fun time!

Santa Shop flyer 2025

Price list for Santa Shop

Nursery consultation feedback.

Thank you to the families who responded to our consultation. The outcome provided overwhelming support to the expansion of our school to include a school based nursery.

Nursery consultation feedback results.

Celebrating Success. Certificate of Achievement 4.12.25

Well done to everyone who received awards or shout outs today. We are very proud of you.

  • Class R – Nia for being an enthusiastic and bubbly learner. Fantastic!
  • Class 1 – Isla for always being ready to work when completing independent tasks. Superstar!
  • Class 2 -Grace for a fantastic attitude to learning and never giving up. What a shining Star!
  • Class 3 -Well done Class 3 for your Assembly performance, you read, acted, spoke and sang so well in your assembly.
  • Class 4 -Arthur for really pushing yourself in your learning and starting to extend your answers with more depth. Well done!
  • Class 5 -Jacob for trying your best and always being ready to listen and learn. Well done!
  • Class 6 -Lily for being a superb role model, showing determination and not giving up. Well done!
  • Raffle ticket – Arlo from class 2
  • EY/KS1 Headteacher’s award – Betty and Isla in class R for sharing their outdoor learning with confidence and enthusiasm. They worked well as a team creating a beautifully constructed Christmas tree using our wonderful woodland world. Great Team Ant learning behaviours.
  • KS2 Headteacher’s award – Class 6 for perseverance and determination in bikeability this week. Well done, you gave it your all and should feel very proud of your achievements.
  • Lunchtime award – Hannah in class 2 for making fabulous food choices and always being polite.

Big shout out to class 3 who delivered a superb class assembly this week. We thoroughly enjoyed finding out about your learning this term. Thank you and well done!

 

Weekly House Points 4.12.25

Weekly house point totals are:

Owls =100

Badgers =107

Squirrels =125

Foxes =107

Well done to the Squirrels  team this week.

 

Book advent in EYFS and KS1

We love reading and Christmas in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2! To celebrate our two favourite things, the teachers have created a book advent – one Christmas book to open each day in December. We can’t wait to see which books have been wrapped up!

Staff car park

A polite reminder that the staff car park is only for staff, visitors, buses and deliveries. Please use the Hodnet Social club car park at drop off and pick up. Thank you.

Any families who are eligible to use the disabled space, please contact Mrs Lyall to arrange this.

PTA non-uniform day 5/12/25

A reminder that next Friday is non-uniform day to support our PTA. Children are invited to come in non-uniform in exchange for a donation for our Christmas hamper raffle.

Governor post.

Huge thank you and congratulations to Mrs Watts who will be joining our Local Governing Body following a successful application process.

We have one remaining Governor vacancy which we will aim to fill in the Spring term. Please see a member of school staff if you are interested in this role.

School vacancies 28.11.25

Would you like to join our successful team, or know someone who might? We have a vacancy in our school kitchen to cover a maternity leave, required from February. Please see details on our vacancy page.

See Mrs O’Connor for further details.