The special café was Mrs Ball’s café. It was all decorated for Christmas and it looked amazing. We had lunch whilst we were there, it was DELICIOUS! The children’s behaviour was outstanding and they were such a credit to Hadrian School. We sang some favourite Christmas songs which were really appreciated by the customers. One lady said we had made her day! Anne (who owns the café) was so pleased with the children that she gave them each a chocolate Santa and a dip into a sweetie jar. What a fabulous experience.

On Tuesday afternoon we had a Coffee Afternoon scheduled. So on the morning we made some cheese and fruit scones, we dipped some biscuits in chocolate and we also made some cheese sandwiches and some egg and tomato ones. After lunch we helped to get the classroom ready for the parents coming. We then had some time to have a practice with our recorders as we were putting a special performance.

Our parents came in, took a seat and then we started performing our special songs on the recorder. Mr Rollings and Mrs Stokle even came and joined in with our afternoon. Everyone was so impressed with our recorder playing. We even videoed it so that everyone can watch it.

https://youtu.be/Ea7F8w0zZFU

After our recorder playing we had a cup of tea or coffee and eat our lovely treats. In Maths we have been learning about shapes, 3D and 2D. To impress everyone even more we got some out for the children to play with and name.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Ball, Babs, Sue, Jess and Carol.

On Wednesday we had the opportunity to meet a children’s author, Julia Jarman. In class we have been reading one of her books’ Fussy Freda so it was wonderful to be able to meet her and ask her lots of questions which we had prepared together. Julia read Fussy Freda and then answered our very interesting questions. She talked about how she wrote her stories and showed us how she recorded her ideas before sending the story off to the illustrator. It was fascinating and it has inspired us to write our own class book which we might base on our Christmas Trip. After meeting her some children had their own Fussy Freda book signed by her and she also wrote a message in our class book.

The children were highly motivated by the session and Lillie summed the visit up by saying “I can’t believe I’ve met a real author!”

On Tuesday we had a fun Food Technology lesson. We decided to base the lesson around Bonfire Night. We came up with some ideas – Breadstick Sparklers, Pizza Catherine Wheels and Fruit Rockets.

We had so much fun making them all, even though we got a little bit messy! Good job we had our aprons on. For the Breadstick Sparklers we had to dip the breadsticks in melted chocolate. We then covered them in different sprinkles. They looked so good!

To make the Pizza Catherine Wheels we covered pastry in tomato sauce and then we put cheese on top. We then had to roll it up into a long sausage and then cut it into pieces. We even added more cheese on the top once they were cut to make it EXTRA cheesy. They were delicious!

The Fruit Rockets were so fun to make. First we had to decorate our skewers to make them look like fireworks. We used coloured cellophane and sparkly paper. We then had to chop all of our fruit up, pears, oranges, apples, bananas and grapes. Once we made a pattern on the skewer we had to put a strawberry at the top of the skewer for the top of the rocket. We were so pleased with how they turned out they looked so good and were so tasty!

Our favourite part was definitely eating them all at snack time!

On Thursday we started Horse Riding. The children had so much fun and were very brave as for some of them it was their first time on a horse. Keep an eye out for some great pictures next week!

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Ball, Babs, Sue, Jess and Carol.

This half term in Maths we have been working on numbers. We have been looking at recognising numerals, counting to 20 and beyond and number bonds to 20. We have also been ‘subitising’. What is subitising? Subitising is looking at a group of objects and knowing how many there are without counting them. We have used our knowledge of number when we have been buying items from our snack shop at communication time.

In English we have been working hard on our letters sounds, words, handwriting and poems. We have been looking at rhyming poems and thinking about words that rhyme with our names. Once we found a word we then made it into a sentence, we had lots of funny ones! The children enjoyed finding words that rhyme with the adults names as well.

Have a lovely half term!

Mrs Ball, Babs, Sue, Jess and Carol