A reminder that children need sun hats and water bottles in school daily. Sun cream should be applied before coming to school. School staff are not able to apply sun cream. Thank you for your cooperation with this. Lets hope we have some much needed sunshine soon!

Uniform reminder – please ensure children are coming to school in correct uniform. Shoes need to be worn, not trainers or boots. Leggings and cycling shorts are not school uniform. Some children choose to wear cycling shorts under their summer dresses, that is fine. Please refer to the uniform policy if you are unsure.

Weekly house point totals are:

Owls = 184

Badgers = 171

Squirrels = 156

Foxes = 151

Well done to the Owls team.

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

• Class R – Henry, for his super attitude towards writing. What a wise whale, well done.
• Class 1 – Georgia, for fantastic effort to work independently this week.
• Class 2 – Sophie, for a positive can do attitude to learning, well done.
• Class 3 – Josh, for engaging enthusiastically in his learning.
• Class 4 – Lucas, for resilience and perseverance, well done we are very proud of you.
• Class 5 – Arthur G, for working hard and showcasing a positive learning attitude.
• Class 6 – for all the Fabulous Year Six!
• Headteacher’s award this week goes to everyone! Y6 for their hard work and the rest of school for their kindness, encouragement, patience and understanding.
• Raffle ticket – Summer
• Lunchtime award – Harry B in Y2 for his excellent manners.

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

• Class R – Grace
• Class 1 – Eden
• Class 2 – Harry B
• Class 3 – Theo
• Class 4 – Maeve
• Class 5 – Ethan
• Class 6 – Lola

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

This term we have been reviewing our school vision statement:

Enabling our children to learn and succeed in a nurturing environment. 

In assemblies we have been thinking about our school, what Hodnet means to us and collecting words to showcase that. The children generated some excellent ideas, some examples of their words are:

Welcoming, respectful, thoughtful, kind, happy, safe, successful, democratic, determined, equal, fair, accepting, fun, amazing, fantastic, excellent.

In Staff meetings we have also discussed this statement and ways to update it, one simple update suggestion is:

“Enabling all children to flourish in a safe, nurturing and welcoming learning environment”

Our governors will also be looking at this over the summer term. We would like to open this up to all stakeholders, asking parents who have any suggestions of either words or phrases which they would like to add to this review process, to please email ideas/suggestions to penny.lyall@hod.318education.co.uk.

Thank you.

A reminder that our Father’s Day lunch is on Friday 14th June. Please ensure forms are returned before 24th May. Orders or cancellations will not be processed after this date. Payments on Parent Pay need to be paid before the event.

Class 6 children completed their SAT’s testing this week. They all worked incredibly hard, showing determination and perseverance to complete the challenging tasks expected of them. We are incredibly proud of them and they should all feel proud of themselves, they gave it everything they could and that’s all that matters.

The care, support and generosity shown this week by the staff, both past and present, was very humbling to see. At Hodnet, we pride ourselves on supporting all our children and adapting our environments to ensure we give everyone the very best chance of success – this week was no exception. A huge thanks goes to the volunteers and staff who made this possible and to the rest of school for their patience and understanding. Thank you – we did it and we’re all relieved that its Friday!

Whilst the tests are important to showcase academic achievement, they are only a small fraction of education. Our pupils are kind, resourceful, resilient, courageous and successful in so many other ways. They are life long learners and will all eventually leave us with their heads held high. For that we are immensely proud.

You may be aware that the government is currently consulting on the SRE curriculum. There are a number of changes being proposed and final information will be provided after the consultation. One thing publicised in the national news this week was a potential change in the age at which children are taught about conception, suggesting that children will not taught about this until they are over the age of 9. At Hodnet, we do not teach this until Y5&Y6 currently anyway. Prior to this the children are taught about puberty, changes and relationships. Some of the content is also within the national curriculum for Science. The 318 Education Trust have recently reviewed and consulted on the Trust wide policy for SRE and PSHE, copies of the policies, procedures and the current curriculum content can be found on our website.

PSHE page link.