Jesmond Dene

8th April 2022June Ball

What a fabulous time we had on Tuesday morning at Jesmond Dene. The sun was shining as we boarded the bus and heading off to the park. We had a walk along the river where we saw lots of ducks and birds. As we walked through the paths of the Dene we passed lots of people walking their dogs, we explored in the woodlands and leaves as well as climbing some trees. After all that we were in need of a rest and decided to head over to the cafe for a drink and snack. Once we had recharged our batteries we had a look through the fence at a goat and rabbit because unfortunately Pets Corner was shut but at least we saw some animals and that gave us a little bit longer in the park. As you can see  by the photos we had great fun exploring the park, swinging, climbing and sliding.

This week in Nadia’s Class

1st April 2022Nadia Motie

What a difference to last week! Despite the snow we have still managed to enjoy the start of spring in class!

It was our turn to look after the chicks in school this afternoon. We absolutely loved them, some of us were even brave enough to stroke and hold them with support!

We have also continued to work so hard this week on our physical skills, we love getting in our hydro pool, looking at all the sensory lights and using our arms and legs to splash our friends! We have also been working on standing, floating on our backs and on our front with less adult support!

We have also had some amazing communication wow moments! Using our voices and eye gaze to communicate with our friends and adults in class!

 

National Reflection Day

25th March 2022June Ball

What a special and exciting week we have had celebrating National Reflection Day. We have been exploring the colour yellow in lots of ways including painting, planting daffodils, colouring in pictures, and using yellow balls and hula hoops in both P.E. and hydro. We also helped to decorate the Caterpillar Garden with some of the beautiful decorations we had made in class and then had a wonderful time exploring around and seeing what other children in school had made. Of course we have also made the most of the beautiful sunshine and took lots of our learning outdoors. We hope you all have a lovely weekend and that the sun keeps shining.

Spring has finally arrived!

25th March 2022Nadia Motie

We have had a fabulous week in class! We loved getting out in the sunshine, dancing with our friends, listening to music and catching the bubbles on our faces! We took a walk to the Caterpillar Garden; it was transformed into a ray of sunshine for ‘Marie Curie Day of Reflection’ to mark two years since the start of the pandemic. We loved walking through the tunnel feeling the wind on our faces, reaching out and playing with the balloons.
We have been working on our communication outside, especially to ask for ‘more’ bubbles and swinging! They seemed to be our favourite this week!
We have also been getting messy and creative to make some lovely gifts for Mother’s Day! We hope you enjoy all of the lovely prints and that you all have a lovely weekend!

Nadia’s Class

Happy Holi!

18th March 2022Nadia Motie

Hello!

We have loved learning about Holi: The Festival of colour! Holi is a Hindu festival which celebrates spring, love and new life.

We have been on a journey this week through our sensory story. We loved the smell of the ‘bonfire’, feeling the confetti falling from the sky and looking at all the bright colours.

We have also been exploring our topic throughout different lessons in class. We have made our own Rangoli patterns in messy art and designed patterns using our hands and feet in bright coloured sand.

During water play our classroom was transformed into an amazing rainforest! We could hear the birds singing in the trees, feel the cool water on our hands and the wind in our faces! We could even smell pine trees and a sweet smell of oranges around class!

Whilst we have been exploring and enjoying all our sensory experiences we have still continued to work hard on our physical skills; sitting in a range of positions; independently and supported, on a bench, in a corner seat, over a wedge and in our standing frames!

After all that hard work we have finished off our week with a nice tranquil spa! We loved smelling the relaxing lavender, having our hands and feet massaged and relaxing with our friends after another busy week in class!

 

Celebrating St Patrick’s Day

18th March 2022June Ball

We had a wonderful time yesterday celebrating St Patrick’s Day. We started the celebrations at Breakfast Club where we we cut out Shamrock shapes for our toast.

In PE we played some Irish music and danced around the School Hall. We had a lovely cool down to some relaxing Clannad music.

In the afternoon we made some green playdough which went everywhere! We also iced some cakes with green icing and put Irish themed toppers on.

We set the table with flags, paper chains and paper shamrocks and enjoyed a little tea party. We also watched a range of songs on the Smart Board throughout the day.

What a great day we had.

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World Book Week

4th March 2022June Ball

What an amazing week we had celebrating World book Day. We didn’t only spend 1 day celebrating but a whole week! Our theme for our special week was Peter Pan. To start off we had a fabulous sensory story of Peter Pan. There were lots of different props, music, videos and some special fairy dust to sprinkle over us all. On Wednesday we were lucky enough to visit the Yurt which had been transformed into the Darling children’s bedroom with lots of toys and books for us to explore. On Thursday we all got dressed up as characters from books, films or wore our pajama’s for World Book Day. In the morning we had great fun practicing our animal moves from the ‘Animal Boogie’ song before we went to the sports hall to join a special dance session which was led by Jo from Dance Roxs. Everyone had a really good boogie and showed off their dance skills. In the afternoon we had a special assembly with a cat walk of costumes, the Masked Reader, stories and lots of songs. Then on Friday we got to visit Neverland in the music studio. WOW it was beautiful, full of bright, twinkling lights, bubbles, leaves, tents and magical music. We had an amazing sensory exploration. Well what can we say other than what an amazing and very busy week we have had, think we might all need a rest over the weekend!

World Book Day in Nadia’s Class

4th March 2022Nadia Motie

Happy Friday! We have had a great week celebrating World Book Day with lots of special experiences and activities. Our theme this year was Peter Pan. We all took part in a sensory story which we all thoroughly enjoyed! We especially loved watching the sea and watching the mermaid splash about.

The main event was Thursday we had a fantastic World Book Day assembly. We all dressed up or wore our pyjamas and shared our favourite stories around class. We loved listening to all the story books and showed engagement throughout!

We then travelled to Tinkerbell’s cave where we used all our senses! We could smell the pine trees, feel the wind on our faces and see the twinkling fairy lights in the jars trying to escape! We could also hear the fairy’s singing in the background, it was so magical!

During our whole school assembly we watched some of our friends perform their favourite stories, participated in ‘The masker Singer Reader’ joined in with some singing and dancing, not forgetting our usual school catwalk at the end showing off all the difference characters and costumes! A fun day was had by all!

 

Valentine’s and Breakfast

18th February 2022June Ball

What a wonderful Valentine’s Day we had in school. We used pink tissue paper and red paint which we dipped our hands in to make beautiful cards to send home to our mums and dads. In the afternoon we had a beautiful party with heart shaped biscuits we had made ourselves, heart shaped plates and cups and lots of our favourite foods as well as some relaxing music. We also helped Ibrahim to celebrate the memory of his brother Marcus and lit some candles. On Tuesday Ibrahim’s mum sent in a gorgeous cake so we had another celebration in the afternoon.

 

 

We thought you might like to see some photos of how much our choosing and pouring skills have improved during our breakfast club. Everyone gets to chose from cereal, toast or yoghurt by using our symbols and can pour their own into bowls. We can now also, using small jugs, pour our choice of drink into our own cups. Just look at how good we are getting!

 

We hope you all have a great half term holiday and look forward to see the children after their break.

Kung Hei Fat Choi

14th February 2022Nadia Motie

Since coming back to school we have been exploring our new topic ‘Asia’. As part of our Topic we have been exploring everything related to Chinese New Year. This has included messy art, messy play, food exploration and music.

On Tuesday we had a whole school assembly to celebrate. We could smell all the lovely food cooking, listened to the music, dancing and watched our friends singing ‘Gung Hey Fat Choi’.

We have also enjoyed our messy play sensory sessions. We have explored different textures, boiled rice, dry rice, noodles, chopsticks and listening to Chinese music during spa and relaxation.

Our sensory story has allowed us to use all our senses to experience Chinese New Year. We listened to the music, watched the dragon dance and smell the incense burning, not forgetting the party cannon and lanterns to finish off!

Nadia and Team