Newsletter Autumn term week 4

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Special Educational Needs and Disability Parent Survey Skip to article
Celebrating Success. Certificate of Achievement 27.9.24 Skip to article
Celebrating Success. Book Worm 27.9.24 Skip to article
Weekly House Points 27.9.24 Skip to article
MacMillan event 2024 Skip to article

Photographs

A reminder that it is school photographs next week. On Tuesday 1st October, Academy will be in school to take individual and sibling photographs. Pre-school aged children are welcome to come for a family photograph at 8.30am in the school hall, please come in via the school office. Siblings who are in school together will have their photographs taken within the school day.

Safeguarding reminders

A reminder of the safeguarding team and procedures within school can be found on our dedicated safeguarding page on our website via this link or within the Safeguarding information booklets that we have in our lobby area, an adults version and a children’s version are available.

Safeguarding is our number one priority. Children need to be and feel safe in order to learn and thrive. We make sure that our children know who they can speak to if they have a worry or concern, they know about trusted adults, worry boxes and helplines that can support them. Our children also know that it is their right to be safe and to be protected from harm. We make sure our children know this through the work we do in our PSHE lessons, but also through assemblies and general conversations in school.

Our Safeguarding leads are:

Mrs Penny Lyall, Headteacher.
Mrs Ceri Williams, Deputy Headteacher (Tue-Fri), Y3 teacher and SENCO.
Miss Jenny Darmanin, Deputy Headteacher (Mon), Y6 teacher and Mental Health lead

Please do not hesitate to contact one of us if you have a concern. ‘Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility’.

Safeguarding Statement 2024

Sporting events

As usual we will be participating in inter-school competitions organised by ActivSports and the School Games team this year. The first of our school team sporting events happens next week.

Upcoming events:

Monday 30th September – High 5 Netball Y5&6 at MDJS 3.30pm
Thursday 17th October – Cross Country KS1 & 2 at Grove School 9.30 – 11.45am.
Wednesday 27th November – Kwick Cricket at Maurice Chandler sports centre 10am-12.

We wish the very best of luck to the children who are representing school at these events.

Audio Books fundraiser

Our Book Club pupils would like to purchase some Audio Book Players for our updated library areas. They have researched this idea and have settled on purchasing Voxblock’s. These are very similar to a Tonie, but have small books to insert to play rather than figures. They are also more compact. The Audio Book players would be a fantastic resource for children to use, so we are keen to support them to reach their goal. The children have been tasked with raising the money themselves, so together with Mrs Noden, their Book Club leader, they have decided to have a brownie sale next week straight after school at the same time as the book fair. So please support them if you can by popping to their stall which will be outside the hall (where the ice-creams are usually sold in summer), where you can buy a delicious home made brownie to take home with you.

Click here for more information

Thank you for your support,

Hodnet School Book Club.

Special Educational Needs and Disability Parent Survey

Please find a link on our SEND page to a Shropshire Local Authority survey for parents to have their say about SEND in Shropshire. The SEND team would like to hear about experiences of using their services in the last 6 months. They are doing this to help them to improve their services and to seek the voice of those who are using the services at first hand. Unfortunately there isn’t a great deal of time left to complete it as they would like responses by 29th September! Apologies for the short notice, the link only came to us this week.

Please follow this link to our SEND page to complete the survey and share your views. Please note, this is not a school survey.

Thank you,

Mrs Williams, SENDCO.

Celebrating Success. Certificate of Achievement 27.9.24

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

Class R – William K, for showing super learning behaviours, particularly in phonics, well done.
Class 1 – Daniel, for a fantastic attitude to learning, working his socks off even after being poorly!
Class 2 – Megan, for working independently, always trying her very best, what a star!
Class 3 – Amelia, for her fantastic learning behaviours, never giving up and always showing resilience.
Class 4 – Katherine, for always being motivated to complete her tasks and showcasing a fantastic attitude to learning.
Class 5 – Olivia, for trying her best in every task and always putting in 100% effort in all that she does, well done.
Class 6 – Reuben, for being an fantastically motivated House Captain – thinking carefully about what he would like to achieve.
KS1 Headteachers – William J in class 2 for always being ready, respectful and safe. An excellent role model.
KS2 Headteachers – Harry D in class 5 for showcasing our values and contributing well in lessons, particularly with Mrs Chaplin, who is so proud of him and nominated him for this award.
Raffle ticket – Oliver in class 6.
Lunchtime award – Emily H in class 4 for always being polite and respectful at lunchtimes.

Celebrating Success. Book Worm 27.9.24

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.