A busy week filled with lots of work and snow.

10th March 2023Elaine Quinn

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.

World Book week!

3rd March 2023Becky Seeber

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.

A fantastic last week in class 9!

16th February 2023Elaine Quinn

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.

 

 

Class 9 weekly update

3rd February 2023Elaine Quinn

On Monday we had a very busy day, we had our usual carousel that we do every morning before playtime. After playtime we practiced brushing our teeth for 2 minutes listening to our song. In the afternoon we had our first lesson in Lego therapy working as a team to build different heights and shapes. To finish our day we went to the trim trail to work on our climbing skills.

 

Tuesday was a very fun and exciting day. In the morning we had our usual routine and then we had our food technology lesson earlier where we made salt dough for our Friday afternoon. On Tuesday afternoon we had a whole school ceildh where we danced in a big circle moving round the sports hall holding hands with all of our friends at Hadrian.

We hope you all enjoyed your extra day off on Wednesday.

Thursday we were straight back into our routine in the morning of our work carousel. After break we designed our own fish following our topic on The Great Barrier reef using different paper and pencils to create scales. Our favorite afternoon of the week is a Thursday afternoon in the thrive room.

Our final day of the week was started off with an achievers assembly, watching our friends videos on the amazing work they have been doing over the half term. After assembly we have a long playtime with all of our friends. After lunch we had a salt dough lesson with the dough we made on Tuesday, making different shapes and counting out how many pieces we have cut the dough into. To finish off our week we had a special treat of going to our school soft play.

 

 

 

 

A fantastic week with class 9

27th January 2023Elaine Quinn

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.

 

 

 

A splashing week.

20th January 2023Elaine Quinn

On Monday we had a lovely sensory carousel in the afternoon, we had multiple activities to help us work on our fine motor skills. we played with bath jelly with lots of little fish in which we had to use our pincher grips to fish them out, we also had multiple games to play. After doing all this we had a lovely meditation session to help relax us ready for snack.

We had a very busy Tuesday, in the morning we had a surprise hydro session which we did in two groups. We took turns in the pool so those that remained in class played with our doctor and nurse outfits and toys. In the afternoon we had our food tech lesson where we made fish cakes to keep on theme with our Great Barrier Reef topic.

On Wednesday morning we done a 1 mile walk in our classroom, we had lots of different movements to copy, after we had finished doing all of this we had a relaxing yoga session just before lunch. In the afternoon we made turtles with different shapes and paper plates. we then added them to our  class room aquarium.

Thursday was our most exciting day of the week as it was our trip to the Tynemouth aquarium, we had lots of fun looking at all of the different under water creatures and animals. We all got the opportunity to touch some of the animals such as a star fish. We watched a fantastic sea lion show just after we had our dinner. Then we ended our fantastic trip with the under water tunnel filled with types of fish, and there were even some sharks.

Friday was the day we celebrated Chinese new year we sang songs and ate noodles and rice in assembly ,we were also given a fortune cookie. After assembly we made Chinese lanterns with card and glitter. After lunch we made bird feeders to hang on the trees. Later on we had a movie with pop corn.

 

 

Our first week back.

13th January 2023Elaine Quinn

Our first day back was wonderful we spoke about our holidays and we celebrated the birthdays that we missed during the holidays. We also introduced our new topic the great barrier reef. We then learnt about the different types of fish found under the sea and created some fish for our display.

On Tuesday we started our new routine in class which is a work carousel where we move to a different member of staff every 10 minutes to do different activities. In the afternoon we had our food technology lesson where we made quiche with tortilla wraps, eggs and cheese.

Wednesday was a day full of arts and crafts to make our classroom  ‘under the sea’ themed. We made jelly fish and octopuses to add to our aquarium. We then made more jelly fish with paper chains, testing our fine motor skills. After that, we  had a relaxing yoga session to end our day.

 

Thursday morning began with our carousel of work and then we had a calming meditation session. In the afternoon we had the thrive room, our favorite time  of the week.

 

On Friday we had the first assembly of the half term. We then finished our morning with our work carousel. In the afternoon we began our new story, The rainbow fish. This is all about sharing and being a kind friend. This then lead nicely to our choice time, practicing sharing our toys. We played with the doctors and nurses roll play kit and cared for our friends.

Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year.

23rd December 2022Elaine Quinn

The last week of Christmas fun was started off with our usual PE session but instead of football we did jabadao. In the afternoon we had a visit from Santa on his magical bus he wished us all a merry Christmas and gave us all a present. We finished the day off with some relaxing yoga

Tuesday was a very festive day so we wore our Christmas jumpers. We had a very busy day making red and green cupcakes with sprinkles. For lunch we had a fantastic dinner off Sam and her team, we then had a lovely afternoon with the whole school singing Christmas carols in the adventure play ground.

 

A wonderful Wednesday was started off with some Christmas numeracy and a long playtime in our adventure playground. After playtime we had a lovely time making some Christmas crafts using lots of different glitters, stickers and card. On Wednesday afternoon we had a lovely afternoon watching Santa the movie.

 

Thursday was a very exciting day as we made our Christmas trees ready to take home for our family’s. In the afternoon it was our Christmas party where we had party games and we danced. We had a very special guest at our party, Santa came and he gave all of our friends in KS2 a present! Just before home time we had some party food in the class room with cakes, crisps and sandwiches.

Our final day in school before Santa comes was started off with a wonderful breakfasts of cheese and ham toasties and fruit. We then played with iced bears in a tough tray and had ice races and lots of cold hands. Just after lunch we watched our Christmas Nativity where our head girl and head boy played the parts of Mary and Joseph and some of our little friends played the parts of the angels and shepherds.

Merry Christmas and a

Christmas Trips and lots of fun.

16th December 2022Elaine Quinn

On Monday we had a fantastic start to the week by watching Aladdin in the school hall with all of our friends. In the afternoon we continued with the Christmas activities and we made Christmas cards with paints and rollers. We also made reindeer paper chains.

 

Tuesday morning we did some Christmas numeracy work followed by a dress rehearsal of our Christmas show. In the afternoon we made crispy cakes with melted chocolate and cheerios. later on we had a reindeer hunt in our adventure playground.

 

On Wednesday we had our final dress rehearsal in front of Mr Rollings and our friends from different classes. We were then joined by Ellen and Sarah’s class as we took a trip to watch Dick Whittington at the exchange theater in North Shields. We all had a long bus journey home as our teachers took us all home on the school buses.

Thursday was another exciting day of trips and bus rides, we went too the discovery museum to finish off our roman topic. We looked at all the different artifacts and looked at statues and different roman outfits and accessories. we finished our day with a snack and a movie before we headed home.

 

 

 

 

Friday was an amazing morning! We finally performed our Christmas show to  all of our friends and family and  we were all amazing and played our parts really well. In the afternoon we watched our other classes Christmas shows then headed to the yurt to end our day to have a look round Santa’s Grotto.

 

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

A wonderful week in Becky’s class.

9th December 2022Elaine Quinn

On Monday we had our weekly PE session with Graham where we continued to learn new and wonderful football skills. After lunch our children who take part in our school choir headed off to the Grainger market to sing some fantastic carols to some of the public. The rest of our class stayed back at school and made some reindeer faces with glitter and card.

 

Tuesday morning was started with a rehearsal on the stage in sports hall of our Christmas show the Grinch, it was our first run through with all of our props and costumes. In the afternoon we did some Christmas baking which including mixing and rolling our dough to make ginger bread people.

Wednesday was a wonderful morning of first decorating our ginger bread people ready for our afternoon snack, and then we continued our ginger bread theme with some ginger bread counting and sticking. Wednesday afternoon was a fantastic event all about diversity. We had some amazing singers, dancers and some very tasty food and lots more.

Sing school was a lovely way to start our Thursday morning, Fran sang lots of Christmas songs with us to get us in the Christmas spirit. Thursday afternoon was spent in the thrive room where we enjoyed some relaxing time by listening to music. We played with our friends and were sharing and taking turns with different toys and activities.

 

The end to another lovely week was started with our assembly in the school hall with all of our Hadrian friends. We then had a our elf parade around school. After lunch we had a special visit from Jackie’s dog Harry, and also Amy’s class, we all stroked and played with Harry. To finish off our wonderful week we had some Christmas coloring in.