Hello everyone.

We have had another fun filled week this week. At the start of the week we did lots of hard work on our English & maths targets. On Wednesday we made a stir fry in a big wok. Everyone was surprised at how different each of the pieces of veg tasted after it was cooked.

On Thursday we had a very art filled day. We spent the morning doing junk modelling and making sculptures. We also went on a street art hunt around the caterpillar garden. We were very impressed with all of the different pieces of art that we found.

We would like to say a big well done to Charlie D for doing amazing work making a Christmas tree during our junk modelling session. Charlie chose what he wanted to make with no adult input and worked on it completely independently. He chose all of his own materials and was focused on the task for an extremely sustained period. Well done Charlie!

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Hello everyone!

We have had another very eventful week in our class. We have worked very hard on our English & maths outcomes. We made bread and butter pudding on Wednesday which went down very well. We spent some time playing in the leaves that have fallen during the autumn months & on Thursday we had a wonderful socially distanced multimedia pantomime.

One of the biggest things that we have done this week was the panathlon challenge. There were 4 activities that the children did and they all gave it their best and were wonderfully enthusiastic throughout. The activities were curling, moving around a slalom whilst balancing a bean bag on a tennis racket, throwing a ball at some cricket wickets & throwing some bean bags at some balls balancing on some cones.

We would like to say a big well done to Maria who earned our certificate this week. She earned this for her caring attitude & thoughtfulness. Maria has been a great friend to everyone, but she has been a particularly good friend to Kayden since he started at Hadrian School. She is always looking out for him, playing with him & showing us all what it means to be a good friend. Well done Maria.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you all next week.

Hello everyone.

We have had a very busy week this week. In addition to our usual activities we have learned about why we wear poppies on remembrance day and we have had a lovely day of Pudsey bear themed activities today.
On Thursday we had a whole morning of motor skills based activities. All of the children tried incredibly hard during this session. We started with some finger skills warm ups before moving on to a series of games. These games included stacking & arranging small cups, joining coloured dots without crossing the previously drawn lines, using play dough, using the pressing frogs and trying to get them to land in the tub, stretching elastic bands around a tube, moving a car with a pen tied to it around a track as well as over writing and copy writing activities.

On Wednesday morning the children made an ‘everything stew’. This is a stew that was made in war times that involved tomatoes, oxo cubes, cabbage, vegetarian mince (although during the war this would have been beef mince) and any vegetables that people had left over from other meals. This stew was made because it was quick, simple and it used all the left overs. Which was important during times of rationing. The children were all great at peeling and chopping the veg and they all really enjoyed trying it during snack time.

We would also like to say a big well done to Charlie L who earned our certificate this week. This was awarded to Charlie because he has been working so hard on his Maths and English learning outcomes this week. Charlie has really applied himself, especially when working on his number bonds to 10. He has been using numicon to create number sentences and could read them independently, always recognising the + & the = signs. Well done Charlie!

We hope that you all have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing you all next week.

Welcome back everyone.

We have had a lovely first week back and have done lots of hard work… as well plenty of fun things. We have spent some time exploring the changes that autumn has on our playground, looking at all of the leaves that have fallen and the changes in colour.

During cookery this week we made some carrot cookies. These were often eaten during the way so they have few ingredients but they are delightfully tasty. The children really enjoyed making them… but they enjoyed eating them more.

We also had our first session of tag rugby this week. The children all tried very hard and did some great listening to all of the instructions given to them by our instructor Reece. We learned all about throwing and kicking the ball as well as how to take people’s tags and the importance of running from people who are after your tag.

We would like to say a big well done to Kaitlin who earned our certificate this week for working so hard on her learning outcomes for reading & writing this week. She has been working on ‘sh’ words. Kaitlin can now read lots of ‘sh’ words from sight without needing to sound them out and she has been beginning to write some ‘sh’ words by segmenting to spell. She also completed all of her work sheets that were sent home during our isolation. Well done Kaitlin.

We hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing you all next week.

On Friday afternoon during our wellbeing afternoon Charlie asked if he could make a chocolate cake for everyone. He put a lot of effort into it and with some help from his friends, especially Sophia, he made a lovely chocolate cake.

Well done Charlie!

Hello everyone.

This week has been a tad shorter than normal, but now that we are back we have been having a great time. We had a lovely time making a pottage (a type of medieval broth) with leeks, parsnips & onions. It went down very well and many children requested multiple extra bowls of it during snack time. We have also spent some time continuing to explore our topic of castles. The children were making their own castles out of lego and the big blocks. Some of them were very detailed… with gates, flags and battlements. Kaleb even decided that his castle needed an army of soldiers to protect it.

We would like to say a special shout out to Anthony who has earned our certificate this week for his castle. He was incredibly focused when making it, he thought carefully about the layout, he made a flag (which is tricky to do with lego), he added a drawbridge & even a gatehouse. Well done Anthony!

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you all again next week.

Hello everyone.
This week we have been looking at our topic of castles. We have been learning about what they were made of, where & why they were built, the flags that were used and each child made their own coat of arms.

We have also been doing lots of hard work on our reading skills, letter sounds (such as ‘s’ & ‘oa’) & our understanding of numbers. In addition we made some flapjacks in our cookery session and we had a lovely party for Charlie L’s birthday.

We would like to wish Charlie a big happy birthday! We hope he had a wonderful day. Welcome to the world of double digits!

Big shout out to Kayden who earned our certificate this week. He got this for settling in so well to his new class and new school as well as having a hugely successful first full week at Hadrian! He has coped with a lot of changes, he has been making friends & he has worked really hard in all of his subjects. Well done Kayden!

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing you all next week

Hello everyone.

We would like to welcome everybody back after our unexpected time away from school. We have missed everybody and look forward to spending more time with you. Due to unexpected circumstances we were unable to post a blog on our first Friday back, so here are the various things that we got up to during our first week.

Our first little project was to make some self-portraits. The children all chose their colours carefully and made some fantastic pictures. They were all incredibly focused and we are very impressed with the results. We also spent some time outside reading stories and counting objects. We were all very impressed with the level of teamwork displayed by the children during our outdoor maths session.

In addition we were incredibly pleased to be able to play with our friends again after all this time. The children have all had a lovely time seeing their friends again. They were also very happy to welcome a new friend to the school. Kayden had his first day at Hadrian during our first week back and we are very pleased to have him.

We would like to say a big well done to all of the children who sent us pictures and updates on the work they have been doing during the last 2 weeks. It was lovely to see you all enjoying learning from home.

We would also like to give a special shout out to Rosie for all of the amazing work she did while self-isolating. She has been bread making, doing art, working on her counting and castle building. She was even a wonderful friend and made tie-dye t-shirts for her friends who live next door. Well done Rosie!

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing you all again next week.