7 months ago
Posted on 10th Oct 2025 by Laura Bessant

Class 1’s first penny whistle lesson

Class 1 enjoyed their first penny whistle lesson with Mrs Salt from the Shropshire Music Service!

7 months ago
Posted on 10th Oct 2025 by Penny Lyall

Careers and Aspirations week plan

As you are aware next week is our careers and aspirations enrichment week. We are so lucky at Hodnet school to have so many people who are keen to come in and support with our learning and we are thrilled with the volunteers that are joining us next week.

In our Monday carousel we have a staff careers talk, RAF careers officer, a scientist, a nurse, a zookeeper, a firefighter and an archaeologist.
On Tuesday we are welcoming an Author/illustrator to lead workshops all day. He is a dyslexic author so will have faced challenges along the way, we hope he can inspire with the message that you can be anything, always follow your dreams!
We also have a horse visit to show how to care for animals.
On Wednesday we have a local Author visit for KS1, Michael McCarthy, and a Secondary teacher visit, Mr Winter, for Y5&6
On Thursday we are hoping to have an RAF Helicopter visit, landing on our field for us. We also have a message from fashion designer Scamp and Dude.
On Friday we have another carousel where we are welcoming a female commercial aircraft pilot, a radiographer, an armoured vehicles engineer, a veterinary nurse, a message from a royal baker, a pilot and an air traffic control officer.

We will be running a competition alongside the Royal baker workshop. More detail to follow about this next week. The baker is Claire Ptak, who has a connection to Mrs Thorpe our vice chair of governors. Mrs Thorpe is running the workshop which involves decorating a cup cake.

We are hoping for a really exciting week with fun alongside ‘real life’ preparations for the big world, with messages about enterprise, life skills, jobs and adulthood. We will keep you updated with photos on the website.

7 months ago
Posted on 10th Oct 2025 by Jane Rhoden

Active Travel Newsletter 2025

Issue 11 – Active Travel School Newsletter – October 2025

7 months ago
Posted on 09th Oct 2025 by Penny Lyall

Half term

A reminder that we break up for half term next Friday, 17th October, school will reopen on Tuesday 4th November.

We have 2 weeks now inline with all 318 Trust schools. The children still do the 190 days per year as statutory, we have disaggregated or ‘moved’ days so that we work slightly longer in July, finishing on 22nd July. The aim of this being that families can have a longer break in the Autumn, which is the longest and often the hardest term, providing time to reset the batteries ready for long winter term. We know that this has been a popular decision with some families making use of cheaper holidays at this time.

Monday 3rd November is a planned PD day for all 318 Trust schools, this is our Trust Conference day, providing high quality professional development for all staff.

7 months ago
Posted on 09th Oct 2025 by Penny Lyall

Celebrating Success. Certificate of Achievement 10.10.25

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

Class R – Benedict for being ready to learn and always showing a positive learning attitude.
Class 1 – Arlo for increased confidence in his own ability. Well done!
Class 2 – Hannah for fantastic story writing this week.
Class 3 – Ava for super class participation and settling in really well.
Class 4 – The whole of class 4 for being super Hodnet school ambassadors on the school trip this week. We are so proud of you all.
Class 5 – Lacey for always working hard, persevering and showcasing our values. Well done.
Class 6 – Freddie in recognition of his fantastic attitude to learning, being determined, kind and committed. This has been recognised by multiple staff. Well done.
Raffle ticket – Eden in class 3
EYFS/KS1 Headteacher’s award – Hudson in class 1 for being ready to learn and working so hard independently.
KS2 Headteacher’s award – Finn for his outstanding contribution to the Enterprise event at Thomas Adams today. Staff commented on his determined, positive approach and how wonderful it was to see his increased confidence. Well done, keep it up.

7 months ago
Posted on 09th Oct 2025 by Penny Lyall

Celebrating Success. Book Worm 10.10.25

Well done to everyone who received awards or shoutouts this week, we are very proud of you.

Today we celebrated reading in our celebration assembly, with praise for lots of children for their reading at home and reading throughout the curriculum in school.

Class R – Betty
Class 1 – Alice
Class 2 – George
Class 3 – Ava
Class 4 – Scarlett R
Class 5 – Molly D
Class 6 – Charlie

Congratulations to all our chosen Book Worms, your reading at home and school was excellent this week.

Remember to keep up those good reading habits.

7 months ago
Posted on 09th Oct 2025 by Penny Lyall

Weekly House Points 17.10.25

Weekly house point totals are:

Owls = 68

Badgers = 105

Squirrels = 92

Foxes = 72

Well done to the Badgers team this week.

7 months ago
Posted on 02nd Oct 2025 by Penny Lyall

Macmillan coffee afternoon

Thank you for supporting MacMillan last Friday. We raised a whopping £546.91. To everyone who donated cakes, came to our coffee afternoon to buy a cake, came to school wearing green and gave at least £1 – thank you, you have supported Macmillan to continue their work to support those in need.

A further £40 was raised by a small group of Y5 girls, who made a range of creative goods to sell with all money raised going towards their ongoing fundraising for cancer research, so far they have raised £150. Well done girls, you should feel very proud of your achievements, we are very proud of you.

7 months ago
Posted on 02nd Oct 2025 by Penny Lyall

Weekly House Points 3.10.25

Weekly house point totals are:

Owls = 181

Badgers = 208

Squirrels = 174

Foxes = 171

Well done to the Badgers teams this week.

7 months ago
Posted on 02nd Oct 2025 by Penny Lyall

Celebrating Success. Certificate of Achievement 3.10.25

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

Class R – Isla for showing kindness to her friends, well done for being a great Team Ant!
Class 1 – Scarlet for increased confidence and independence in learning. Well done, what a great Wise Whale.
Class 2 – Willa for great listening and always being ready to learn, also for being a helpful member of our class team.
Class 3 – Georgia for flying! Wow! Fantastic independent maths adn super reading. Georgia is such a hard worker – well done!
Class 4 – Emma for being an excellent role model for learning adn being a great class friend to others. Well done.
Class 5 – Zack really flying in class 5 – always trying his best and growing in confidence. Well done!
Class 6 – Harry for gaining confidence adn really staring to shine, we are so proud of you.
Lunchtime – Wren in class 5 for showcasing our school values and having good manners.
Raffle ticket – Zara in class R.
EYFS/KS1 Headteacher’s award – Theo in class R for being a kind friend and a super member of our Reception class team.
KS2 Headteacher’s award – Megan in class 3 for always working hard, being responsible and proud of her learning. A super star!