We have loved our PHSE sessions this term.

We are pros at teeth brushing, and even tounge brushing after a few weeks.  It was tricky at first and made us feel a bit queasy,  but we now know all the steps without any prompts.

We have loved being given the opportunities to show we can take some responsibility for ourselves and our self care.

We have learnt about our own and other people’s feelings, asking before we touch them or brush their hair.

We are now understanding sharing, taking turns, playing and helping others is a good thing, if they agree and it is always best to ask first.

Our topic this term has been ‘ On The Farm’. We have been learning lots of interesting facts about where our food comes from, whether certain foods grow above or below the ground and which meats come from which animals.

We have looked at lots of different tools and machinery that gets used on the farm.

One of our favourite activities has been role play being vets learning to look after the animals health issues, and understanding how to keep them healthy. We have had our very own farm shop in class where we have took turns to shop or be the shop keeper, were we worked on our coin recognition and counting skills.

We have been using lots of fresh vegetable’s in our cookery lessons making lots of tasty dishes and learning how to prepare each one, onions were definitely the least favourite.

We were very lucky to visit Humbleswood farm which lets you have hands on experience of caring, feeding and cleaning the animals who live there, it was such an amazing place sadly the weather was not as kind to us and we had a fun but very wet and muddy day.

This half term we have been exploring our fantastic city Newcastle upon Tyne. We have had a busy half term filled with lots of trips and fun.

Our first trip was too the Angel of the North. We explored the area and took lots of great pictures and played some lovely games. After our trip we were very inspired and we made our very own Angel of the North statues in our art lesson. We looked at all of the textures of the statue and how we could recreate them. We then created a beautiful background to copy the images we took.

The second trip of the half term was a tour of St James Park where we got to explore the inside and outside of the grounds. We looked at the changing rooms with all of the shirts in and the press rooms where the players get interviewed.  We went beside the pitch and sat in the manager’s seat and found out all of the secrets and fun facts about the Newcastle united ground. Class 9 then had a lesson with Graham to put our new learnt skills into practice.

Next up we headed around Newcastle to see where we all lived and if we could recognise our homes. This was stemmed from learning about our family trees and our communities. We all managed to recognise our houses or our streets.

Our final trip of the half term was the Quayside too look at all of the buildings and amazing bridges. Whilst there we learnt more facts about the bridges and their purposes. We walked all of the way along and stopped for a cheeky ice pop in the sunshine. We then used our creative minds to create our own bridges with straws and glue to create the structure.

Class 9 have continued with their weekly horse riding lessons and have gained so much confidence. Nell has increased her confidence around horses and is now confident when stroking them. We were so amazed when she sat on a horse one session. Very brave!

We have been going to our local shops weekly to collect our ingredients for our food tech lessons. Our social skills and independence and awareness of others has improved this half term.  We have been making Geordie delicacies this half term to stay on theme with our topic. We have made Pease pudding, stotties, bacon floddies and lots more.

We hope you all have a fantastic break over the holidays and cant wait to see you all back next week.

We began our first week with a catch up finding out what we all got up to in the holidays and checking if we had a special visit from the Easter bunny. Our day was filled with role play activities and lego therapy. In the afternoon we headed out on a trip to ASDA to find our ingredients for our food technology lesson later in the week. on our trip we worked on our social sight vocabulary and social skills in store.

Tuesday was a fun filled day with an introduction to our new topic. we will be learning all about our fabulous city Newcastle upon Tyne we will be having lots of trips out exploring our city and what it has to offer. We had a lovely discussion about what makes us special and our likes and dislikes.

On Tuesday afternoon we headed on our first topic trip of the year which was to the angel of the north.

We continued our topic work with our food technology lesson where we used our ingredients to make Pease pudding. We counted out our yellow split peas and left them to soak before adding salt and pepper and allowing them to cook. we then tried our Pease pudding to see if we like the taste and textures. In the afternoon we used our creative skills and made our very own angel of the norths by paper mache.

Thursday morning we had outdoor learning in the sunshine. We went on a  frequency word hunt in the flow field ticking off and sounding out new and old words that we have found. We then had some time on our trim trail practicing our balancing and coordination skills. After lunch we split our class in half and had lots of fun.  Half of us went horse riding and half went into the thrive room.

Assembly was how our Friday morning began where we sang our favorites songs and talked about our week and holidays. we celebrated pout friends achievements and then headed outside for a extended play with our friends.  In the afternoon we had a body awareness session working individually and then with a partner.

On Monday we had a busy day filled with lots of work and fun we had our usual morning of our work carousel moving round the classroom doing different activities. After break we celebrated Kian’s 9th birthday with a birthday party we had lots of party games and dancing, in the afternoon we headed to Lidl to get our shopping for our food technology lesson on Tuesday.

Tuesday was another fun packed day we had cosmic kids jungle adventure  yoga, we learnt lots about all of the animals in the jungle and the noises that they make. After lunch we went into the food technology room to make our koala fruit kebabs with lots of different fruits including pineapple and kiwi.

Wednesday was a different kind of day  as we spent our day in the food technology room as our class room was being painted by some very kind volunteers from media city. Our morning started with mark making and practicing to write our names. We continued our day by making bird feeders with string and different types of cereal which we later hung outside on the trees.

We had a very exciting lesson on Thursday learning all about the animals in Australia, we felt their different textures and heard the sounds they make, we did this by playing ”I’m a celebrity” style game, we had boxes filled with different textures and animal toys and we all took  turns to feel inside each box ,without looking, and had to guess what animal we thought was in the box. We were very brave , and we all enjoyed the new experiences and the unexpected textures, and also not knowing what we would feel within the box. In the afternoon we went to the thrive room to do roleplay and share our toys with each other .

We ended our week with an achievers assembly with lots of singing and dancing to celebrate our friends great achievements that they have made this half term.  We enjoyed a lovely playtime in the snow sledging and throwing snow balls. After lunch we had a wonderful afternoon with our Doctors and Nurses role play, and some of us played dough disco and practiced forming letters with the dough too.

This week we began our world book week with our usual morning carousel. We then started our new topic in PSHE all around going to the shops and reading shopping lists. We had a close look at different types of shopping lists and watched an episode of Peppa going to the shops. We then had to read our own shopping lists and find the correct items to stick into our baskets. Next week we shall be going down to the shops to buy our ingredients for our food tech lesson.

On Wednesday, we all enjoyed a lovely concert with the rest of our friends in the hall. There was plenty of singing and dancing and the band playing were amazing! In the afternoon we started our new topic of the outback and we made some lovely Koala bear masks, as we are reading the story of the koala who could.

On Thursday we had world book day. We all came into school dressed as different characters from our favorite stories. In the morning we were super lucky to have a dance session with Jo, from Dance rocks. We followed this with a visit from the zoo lab. We got to meet a big African snail, a snake, a cockroach and even a tarantula. We were all so incredibly brave and managed to have a feel and even hold the animals.

In the afternoon a group of us went down to Kirklee hall RDA to begin our riding lessons that we are fortunate enough to have till the end of the year. We were all so amazing with our horses and were able to listen and follow instructions well. The other group stayed at school and we enjoyed a lovely world book day assembly. We even got to watch the Masked story teller!

On Friday, we had our usual certificate assembly. This week Leighton won a certificate for his increased independence when completing a set task. He is also becoming more independent when zipping up his coat. This is something he has been practicing for a while. In the afternoon, we headed down to the food tech room to finish off the last of our world book week activities. We made some Teddy bear’s porridge and some lovely cupcakes.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and stay safe.

On Monday we had a wonderful day full of adventures and fun as we went to Druridge bay country park. We spent our morning in the park climbing and investigating all of the parks activities. After lunch we headed down to the beach to collect shells and seaweed to bring back to school for our topic work.

On Tuesday we had a fabulous day starting off with a whole school assembly all about Valentines day and Pancake day as we are not in school next week.

We watched Mr Rollings and Alex make pancakes for us all to try. Some of us had the chance to help and try to flip the pancakes.

In the afternoon we headed to the yurt to make our loved ones some valentines cards.

Wednesday we had a very busy day, we started our morning with dough disco straight after playtime then we went off to the trimtrail to practice our climbing and coordination skills.

We had an arty afternoon making thankyou cards for some of our amazing staff who are moving on to different jobs, followed by a calming meditation session to end our day off.

To end our final week of this half term we had a goodbye sing song for our lovely Fran who has been taking ‘sing school’ sessions at Hadrian for a long time.

We also celebrated Newcastle United in our black and white shirts and clothes to give the boys our support. After lunch we made our way to the Thrive room a favourite role play session of ours.

Class 9 hope you all have a fabulous week off and rest ready for next half term.

To start off our fantastic week we had our usual carousel of work, after playtime we had a walk around our school grounds hanging our bird feeders on the trees in our school grounds.   In the afternoon we had a calming meditation session listening to different under water sounds to stay on topic with The Great Barrier Reef.

On Tuesday morning we looked at how to clean our teeth properly. We learnt how long we need to brush for and how much tooth paste we need to use. We then put it into practice and we all cleaned our teeth. Later that day we had our weekly food lesson where we made fruit scones which we enjoyed with butter and jam.

Wednesday was our morning routine of our carousel, after break we had a PE lesson we did a 1 mile walk in class with lots of different movements. After lunch we had an arty afternoon where we made our very own coral reef display. We made it with salt dough and food coloring.

Thursday was a day for learning about our topic. We found out about scuba divers and all of their equipment which they use to swim around the sea and how they see the fish under water. Thursday is class 9 favorite afternoon as we have the thrive room where we enjoy our time sharing our toys and playing with our friends.

To end our week we had our achievers assembly, where watched our friends from different classes achievements and progression. After assembly we had a long play in the adventure playground, playing with the scooters and the pushchairs. In the afternoon we had a playdoh modeling session making different shapes.