Welcome back
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.
Hodnet becomes a winter wonderland!
We all enjoyed the snow that greeted us on our first day back after the Christmas holidays. What a fantastic start to 2026!
Online safety online event for Parents & Carers.
Please see the letter below for information about an online event organised for parents and carers later this month.
We will send a paper copy to families on Monday, enabling you to reply using the reply slip.
We hope you can join this event.
Letter to parents, online safety virtual session
Church service
Our Easter church service planned for Thursday 26th March needs to be rescheduled due to Y6 being at Oakerwood that week. An oversight on my part. Please accept my apologies. I will confirm the new date asap. Expected to be Thursday 19th March, 2pm, but not yet confirmed.
Mrs Lyall.
Spring term 2026 diary dates updated
Dates shared December 2025. New dates added in red.
January
- Mon 5th – School reopens.
- Fri 9th – DEAR 3pm
- Fri 9th – closing date for Kitchen Assistant post applications in by 4pm.
- Mon 12th – Curriculum & Coffee morning 8.45 – 9.15am class R
- Tue 13th – Curriculum & Coffee morning 8.45 – 9.15am classes 1& 2
- Wed14th – Curriculum & Coffee morning 8.45 – 9.15am classes 3&4
- Thurs 15th – Curriculum & Coffee morning 8.45 – 9.15am classes 5&6
- Fri 16th – Swimming starts for Y3 & Y4 for 5 weeks.
- Wed 21st – Y4 visit to Blists Hill, information to follow
- Wed 21st – Y5 visit to Ironbridge, information to follow
- Thurs 22nd – Online safety virtual parents event.
- Mon 26th – Christingle Workshop 3.15-4.15, parents from 4.15-4.30 information to follow.
February
- Mon 2nd – Fri 6th – National Storytelling week with events in school and planned visitors. More information to follow.
- Thurs 5th – Sportshall Athletics competition.
- Fri 6th – DEAR 3pm
- Fri 13th – break up for half term.
- Mon 23rd – school reopens.
March
- Tues 3rd – Y6 visit to RAF Cosford, details to follow.
- Wed 4th – Parents Evening 3.30 – 7.30
- Thur 5th – Parents Evening 3.30-5
- Fri 6th – World Book Day, optional dress up.
- Fri 6th – DEAR 3pm
- Mon 9th – Fairtrade focus fortnight begins
- Wed 11th – Y6 class assembly 9am. Y6 parents welcome.
- Fri 13th – Mother’s day lunch.
- Mon 16th – Rock Steady Concert 9.15am.
- Wed 18th – Y2 class assembly 9am. Y2 parents welcome.
- Thursday 19th – Church service 2pm TBC.
- Mon 23rd – Fri 27th – Y6 residential to Oakerwood
- Tue 24th – Governing body meeting
- Thurs 26th – Church service 2pm. Cancelled.
- Fri 27th – Break up for Easter. Return to school Monday 13th April.
Swimming for Y3&4
Great news – the pool is back open and we have our confirmed slot starting next Friday for 5 weeks. Thanks to Mrs O’Connor for chasing this and managing to secure our sessions. Information sent electronically this week, paper copy letters to enable you to reply will be sent home on Monday.
DEAR
We will reschedule today’s DEAR session for next Friday.
January’s Drop Everything And Read will now be on Friday 16th Jan at 3pm. See you there.