Celebrating Success. Certificate of Achievement 23.04.26
Well done to everyone who received awards or shout outs today. We are very proud of you.
- Class R – Arthur for being ready to learn, being more enthusiastic about doing your work too. Fantastic!
- Class 1- Emmie for your fantastic learning behaviours. Always being ready to learn and being respectful. A true role model for learning. Well done!
- Class 2 – Macey for a great attitude to learning and being a polite and helpful member of the class. Excellent!
- Class 3 – William for a super week- great work, listening and being a great friend to your peers. Fantastic !
- Class 4 – Raya for being an all round superstar! For your increase in confidence and sharing your learning. Keep it up!
- Class 5 – Daisy for really trying hard with your work and an improvement in your hand writing too. Amazing!
- Class 6 – Harrison H for a turn around in your attitude to school and working harder. Also for a more positive attitude too. Well done!
- KS1 Headteachers Award-Alice W for being kind, ready and always trying her very best. What a superstar!
- KS2 Headteachers Award-Isabelle S for showcasing our values and being ready. Also for being an enthusiastic learner and always being thoughtful of others.
- Lunchtime Award- Beatrix (Class R) for good manners and making great food choices too.
- Raffle Ticket-Kai
Celebrating Success. Book Worm 23.04.26
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 – Fleur
- Class 1 -Casey
- Class 2 -William K
- Class 3 -Phoebe
- Class 4 -Raya
- Class 5 -Leah
- Class 6 -Millie
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.
Family Fest Market Drayton- Saturday 2nd May- 10am -4pm
This event has been fully funded by Market Drayton Town Council.
🎉 What’s on:
✨ Delicious food & drink
✨ JDL Market — including stalls for our mini marketeers
✨ Live music & performances
✨ Community Hub
✨ Circus Academy workshops throughout the day
✨ Crazy Golf
✨ Stilt Walkers
✨ Crafts & Sand Art
✨ Face Painting
✨ Wings & Things animal encounters
✨ Magic & Balloon Modelling
✨ Gootopia
✨ My SEN Den — a calm, inclusive space for children & adults who need quiet time
Cricket at Hodnet and Peplow CC
Weekly Respect Champions 24.04.26
Well done to our Respect Award Champions who will go into the draw, to be in with a chance to be awarded our school termly respect trophy.
- Class R -Amelia
- Class 1 -Arlo
- Class 2 -Ted
- Class 3 -William
- Class 4 -Cecily
- Class 5 -Lola
- Class 6 -Libbie
Weekly House Points 23.04.2026
Weekly house point totals are:
Owls = 88
Badgers = 77
Squirrels =114
Foxes = 70
Well done to the Squirrels team this week.
Termly House Points – Spring term 2026
Termly house point totals are:
Owls = 990
Badgers = 1018
Squirrels =1173
Foxes = 993
Well done to the Squirrels team for their tremendous efforts last term.
KS1 and KS2 Reading Competition
KS1 Reading Competition
On Thursday our KS1 reading champions had an assembly about a campaign to support young children’s reading.
‘Go all in’ has been organised to make reading enjoyable.
During the assembly we launched a new competition for all KS1 pupils.
All pupils in KS1 can design a new front cover for your favourite book.
The deadline is June 01st, please draw your design on a piece of plain paper and hand it in to your class teacher.
The top 5 will win a prize.
KS2 Reading Competition
The KS2 reading champions had an assembly this week we discussing encouraging children to read more.
We learnt about the ‘Year of Reading’
The ‘year of reading’ is a campaign started by Queen Camilla, it is the biggest campaign designed to help and encourage more young people to enjoy reading.
All pupils are invited to take part in the competition, if you take a photograph of yourself outside -in the silliest place possible reading a book, we will make a comparison with other classes and the class that brings in the most pictures will win a book of there choice.
Sir David Attenborough Day 8th May
On Friday 8th May we are celebrating David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!
The Shropshire Wildlife Trust are coming to school work with all classes, leading sessions in our forest school area based on sustainability. We are also welcoming some children and staff from our partner Trust schools, Thomas Adams and St Martins to participate in these sessions, so we are really looking forward to collaborating.
On the day we will be celebrating the life of Sir David Attenborough, learning about his many adventures and achievements as he hits this tremendous milestone. We will be participating in a live national assembly, making planet pledges and of course eating birthday cake!
We will monitor the weather and keep you posted with regards to any outdoor clothing requirements.
Curriculum and Coffee chats
Thank you to the paretns/carers who attended these sessions this week. Any documentation shared within the session can be viewed and downloaded on our website curriculum page, they will also be on class pages.
Art Calendar competition
We are once again taking part in the Market Drayton calendar competition. This year our month is April. So far half of our school have worked with the local artists to create their paintings, the other half will complete these next Tuesday. A great opportunity to work with local community members, showcasing their artistic skills and sharing their knowledge with our children.
Every child creates a painting, a long list is selected by the artists, followed by a short list of winners to go through to the final selection panel, then an overall winner is selected and their painting is used for the April picture in the printed local calendar. All shortlisted children are invited to a presentation, usually in October.
It has been delightful to see so many beautiful paintings around school this week – so much drying space was needed, they have literally been everywhere! Well done to all involved.
Purple up for Military Children
April is the Month of the Military Child. Today, 24th April, we wore purple to acknowledge this national event. Our children have shared their knowledge of their family experiences, including plotting postings on a world map in Y6, which we plan to do in assembly next week for other classes.
Classes have found out about the meaning behind the logo – a dandelion depicting ‘strong roots grow wherever they go’, and enjoyed learning about military connections and roles both past and present.
We have 36 military children in our school, a number which has grown exponentially in the past few years. We have families representing all services, Army, Navy and RAF with the majority being at RAF Shawbury. We also have military families and civilian members within our staff community and wider local school community. We value our partnership with RAF Shawbury, working with them to ensure high quality education and support for our children and families.
Summer term events
The key dates for this term are:
April:
- Tue 28th – Whole school painting with local artists (MD calendar)
May:
- Fri 1st – DEAR 3pm (no phones please)
- Mon 4th – Bank holiday, school closed
- Fri 8th – David Attenborough Day
- Mon 11th – Thur 14th – Y6 SATS testing week
- Mon 18th – Y4 Pentecost Workshop
- Wed 20th – YR Class assembly 9am, YR parents welcome
- Fri 22nd – break up for half term.
June:
- Mon 1st – School re-opens
- Tue 2nd – YR visit to Shrewsbury Museum
- Fri 5th – DEAR 3pm (no phones please)
- Mon 8th – Y1 Phonics screening week
- Thur 11th – New YR (26/27) parents evening 5.30pm
- Tue 16th – Y4 trip to Cadbury World
- Wed 17th – Y1 Class assembly, 9am Y1 parents welcome
- Wed 17th – Y2 Trip to Chester Zoo
- Thur 18th – Y5 Taster day to Thomas Adams School
- Fri 19th – Father’s Day lunch & Sports Day afternoon
- Mon 22nd – Armed forces week TBC
- Thur 25th – New YR intake in school 9-11am
- Fri 26th – Y5&6 London visit
- Mon 29th & Tue 30th – Y6 move up day to Grove School
- Mon 29th – Wed 1st – Y6 move up day to SJT
- Tue 30th – Local governing body meeting
- Tue 30th – New YR intake in school 1.15-3.15
July:
- Fri 3rd – DEAR 3pm (no phones please)
- Mon 6th & Tue 7th – Y6 move up day to Thomas Adams School
- Mon 6th & Tue 7th – Move up sessions for each class
- Tue 7th – New YR intake in all day. KS1 full day move up.
- Wed 8th – Y1 Art trip to Shrewsbury Museum
- Mon 13th – Y6 church retreat day
- Wed 15th – Y3 Egyptian workshop
- Thur 16th – Church service, 2pm at St Luke’s, Hodnet
- Fri 17th – End of year reports out to parents
- Mon 20th – Rock Steady concert
- Mon 20th – Optional drop in parents evening
- Mon 20th – Y6 play at 6.30pm
- Tue 21st – Y6 end of term trip
- Wed 22nd – Leavers assembly 9am
- Wed 22nd – School closes for summer. Reopening on Wed 2nd Sept.