Welcome back we hope you all had a lovely half term break. We have loved reading your journals to find out what you all got up to over the holiday and it sounds like you’ve all had the best time with your friends and families.

We have had a fabulous first week back at school and yesterday we enjoyed a fabulous world book day. We started the morning off with a fabulous Zumba to stories such as Room on a Broom and The Gruffalo, acting out the various shapes of the characters getting our bodies working and moving! We then had a trip around our fabulous book trail which some of our staff have kindly put up around school. We are very much looking forward to being able to sit out in the sun and read our fabulous books when the weather gets slightly warmer. We also enjoyed some fabulous Aladdin themed arts and crafts, creating our very own fly carpet and magic lanterns.

Yesterday afternoon we all came together as a school to celebrate World Book day having stories told to us by ‘The Masked Storyteller’, we all shouted “get it off” once we had guessed who we thought the storyteller might be. We all loved getting involved in this and we were all out of our seats having lots of fun. We then had a cat walk down the aisle to show off all our fabulous outfits and I’m sure you will all agree Class 5 had THE best outfits of the day!

As well as all this excitement we have of course carried on with our usual therapies and timetabled lessons.

Dates to remember

Wednesday 8^th March – is our Holi festival please can all the children either bring a white t-shirt or wear a one for school. We strongly advise you to dress your child in old clothes and shoes (one’s you don’t mind getting covered in powder paint)

Thursday 9^th March – Parents evening. Please feel free to give us a message if you have any questions regarding this.

Friday 10^th March – No swimming.

 

This week we have gone totally bonkers over Asia sampling a wide variety of cultures and objects of reference from various different countries within Asia.

We began the week by making our very own Asian fans by painting various vibrant colour’s and sticking on wonderful gold paper, we loved looking at the light reflecting off the gold paper while we were sticking it onto our fans. We then used our skills to fold the paper into fabulous fans which we moved up and down to create air on our faces.

We then looked at the map of Asia, pointing out and exploring the green land and the blue sea. We then used various materials and tools to stick on and create our very own map of Asia.

After all that cutting, sticking and making we explored some of the food and various textures of Asia. Feeling lentils, chickpeas and rice and saying whether we like the feel or not. As you can see we all loved the various textures and we especially loved banging on our sensory mood table and watching the rice dance across the surface.

We also explored the different sounds and smells of Asia and as you can tell by our faces some of them weren’t too our liking – but we all gave it a go and we are so proud of all our children and how well they will accept new smells, textures, tastes and experiences within school.

As well as all of this we have had our usual timetable and therapies have have enjoyed a fabulous swim this morning.

Just a reminder that school breaks up for half term on Thursday 16th of February and we will return on Monday 27th of February.

Fran, Vikki, Lauren and Yasmin

We have had a busy few weeks here in Class 5.

We are still enjoying our mud kitchen sessions on a Monday morning and its a great way to start our week, blowing off the cobwebs. We love dancing under the hose pipe and we have had the opportunity to explore our music shack where we can make sounds, loud and quiet using the various instruments in there.

   

We have also been letting out all of our energy at the sensory suite sliding, swinging and balancing of the various pieces of equipment in there. We have also enjoyed and extra special P.E. session on a Monday afternoon building up our confidence and our strength, climbing, running, jumping, balancing and crawling through the various apparatus in the school hall.

We have also been very busy making our passports ready for our airport trip and on Tuesday we had the opportunity to go out on our school bus, ride the metro and explore the airport. We scanned our passports and had a cuppa while we waited for our flight! Every single one of our little legends handled the change in routine, the different environmental sounds and smells and the transitions with grace, it was a pleasure and a joy to take them all out. We also had a special treat and visited the wheatsheaf pub for our lunch where we all enjoyed a fabulous  dinner of pizza, chicken nuggets and chips and played in the little play area.

After all that busy work we have finished off the week with a relaxing hydro session.

 

We hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you bight and early on Monday morning.

Fran and the Team 🙂

Hello and welcome back, we hope you all had a lovely and relaxing Christmas holiday. We have hit the ground running since being back at school and have carried on with building upon our relationships and gaining confidence whilst transitioning around our school.

On Monday we ventured out to our mud kitchen wrapped up all cosy with our water proofs on to have lots of fun making mud pies and filling and emptying out the watering cans, we then enjoyed a trip to our sensory integration room. Monday is such a busy day for us here in class 5 but our fabulous little legends never fail to surprise us with their versatility and resilience. We also enjoyed our fabulous sensory suite – we all really love it in here, especially the projector where we get to watch the fish swim underneath our feet. We finished off our day with body awareness and physical development, becoming aware of the position and movement of our body parts.

Tuesday we began our day with our new story in English which for this half term is Handa’s Surprise. We have begun by reading the first few pages of the book and we all enjoyed feeling, touching and smelling bananas, which is the first fruit she collects. We then headed for a much needed play in our soft play suite where we enjoyed the ball pool and the slides. After dinner we then headed to our Thrive room to enjoy the various toys and books in there, we especially love the doll’s house and kitchen and in here it allows us the opportunity to expand on our play skills. We then headed back to class where we enjoyed a session developing our fine motor skills, such as threading, posting and pegging and let me tell you we are all getting pretty good at this.

Of course Wednesday is one of our favorite days as we all enjoy a trip to our Rebound centre where we are working very hard on our various levels, of course there is always time for a little play on the trampolines. We then started on our topic of Asia and painted some of the many flags that make up Asia. We had lots of fun using the paints to create our flags. We then enjoyed some calm time and enjoyed some water play in class, using jugs and various different objects to fill up with water and empty out. This is a particular favorite of ours.

Yesterday we continued with or personal hygiene session. We enjoyed massage, nail filing, hair brushing and teeth brushes. We love to watch ourselves in the mirror while we are pampered and we are building up our tolerance level and are allowing the adults to be in our space so much more. We also enjoyed messy play exploring different textures and tastes.

Today we enjoyed our Hydro session, we just love splish splashing in the water and we are beginning to dip our heads underneath the surface, we are beginning to get used to the routines of the hydro pool, changing, showering and then entering safely. We then enjoyed our weekly assembly with Mr Rollings. We love singing and dancing to all of our Hadrian assembly songs. We have all become so settled and regulated in assembly and  we are so proud of how will the children manage with the various elements of our assembly.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend

Fran, Vikki, Lauren and Yasmin

 

Just like that 8 weeks have passed us by and we are all ready to leave for the Christmas holidays. I really can’t believe just how fast these weeks have gone but we have had so much fun getting to know all your fabulous children. They have brought us so much joy over the last 8 weeks, they are all a credit to you. They have handled coming into a new school and meeting new faces with such ease, handling new experiences, transitions and areas they had never been to before. I know us as a team are just so overwhelmed by the progress all of your children have made in such little time. We are in awe of them – they are inspirational!

We kicked off this week with a visit from the Stagecoach Santa were we entered Santa’s grotto on the bus! We are so lucky to have so many fantastic services come to our school and we were so grateful for our selection boxes. We also enjoyed our Christmas party, playing pass the parcel and our old Hadrian favorite ‘corners’, the children had so much fun running around and soaking up the atmosphere. We danced and sang until our socks fell off and then we came back to class where we enjoyed our party food and we even had a visit from the man himself, no not Mr Rollings, SANTA. We were all so excited to see him and he gave us each a special gift for us to take home and enjoy.

On Tuesday we all enjoyed a fabulous festive feast prepared by our kitchen, it was so yummy. We then all went outside in our adventure playground to sing Christmas songs and have a big whole school party with our very own Hadrian School band playing their instruments and singing for all to hear.

We have also been finishing off our Christmas crafts and making sure they were all ready to go and hopefully by now you will have had them home. We really hope you enjoy all of the fabulous crafts we have been making, the children have worked so hard and it will always be something to look back on as the children get older.

Today we have had a quieter day and have enjoyed some choice time and some good old Christmas songs and this afternoon we have our annual Christmas nativity to enjoy to end the day nicely.

Monday 9^th of January school reopens and our new topic is all about Asia, we have some very exciting sessions planned all around Asia and we can’t wait to get started.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year may it be filled with all the happiness in the world.

Fran, Vikki, Lauren and Yasmin

 

Stagecoach Santa Bus

Christmas Party

 

Enjoying Christmas lunch

 

What a fabulous couple of weeks we have had here in Class 5. We have enjoyed a slightly more relaxed timetable over the past couple of weeks and have been very busy making lots of Christmas crafts and special surprises ready to take home. We have continued with our therapies and have still enjoyed Rebound and, when available, the hydro pool.

The Children also enjoyed their Christmas trip out last week and everyone was impeccably behaved, we were so proud of every single one of them. They handled new experiences, such as the school bus, with great ease. We can already see a difference in them all with how well they are handling transitions and change of routine.

I’m sure it goes without saying how amazing our little legends were in our Christmas performance yesterday and we were all very emotional at just how far they have come in such a short space of time. They all shone so bright.

Dates to remember

Monday 19^th – Christmas Party. You are welcome to send your child in with their party clothes on ready or send it in with them on the bus and we will be happy to get them changed before the party. Please look out on Class dojo for more information.

Tuesday 20^th – Christmas jumper and dinner day. We will be going outside in the afternoon to sing some Christmas carols as a full school so please could you send into school warm clothes for your child.

Friday 23^rd – School Christmas nativity (pm)

We break up for our Christmas holidays on Friday 23^rd of December and return to school on Monday the 9^th of January.

 

We also celebrated our Jaxson’s 5th Birthday last Thursday with a little party on Friday,

 

Our Christmas outing

We have played with our candy cane slime

 

Enjoyed our first every multi-cultural event.

    

And explored the snow.

Have a lovely weekend

Fran, Vikki, Lauren and Yasmin

What another fantastic week we have had here in Class 5. We have enjoyed exploring our caterpillar garden this week and used the time to do a wildlife hunt to find various autumnal items. Unfortunately a squirrel was not to be found but we are still hopeful we may see one in other parts of our school. The caterpillar garden has a host of different outdoor learning opportunities, we have a nature tunnel, a fire pit and a caravan for the children to use and experience.

We have also enjoyed messy play with spaghetti, we enjoyed touching, feeling and tasting the spaghetti, it went down a storm!  The children are becoming more resilient to trying new textures and experiences in class and we really couldn’t be prouder.

Intensive Interaction happens all day every day in class and this brings so much more in the way of communication. Making relationships with the adults and our friends is very important to us so we like to have as much time as possible building bonds with each other.

We begin our countdown to Christmas in school next week with lots of fantastic festivities planned, please keep a look out for important dates for your diary.

Enjoy your weekend

Fran and the team

 

What a busy week we have had here in class 5. Not only have we been working hard during rebound therapy, sensory exploration and messy play but we also ventured into our soft play centre where the children had lots of fun exploring the marvellous equipment the soft play has to offer.

We have also explored and talked about Pudsey bear in class this week creating our very own ‘potato Pudsey’ to be judged in our weekly assembly. The children worked so hard using different tools to paint the potato and we loved getting very messy with the paint. We really created a masterpiece!

We have also been working very hard with our visual timetable and our children are learning to check their own timetables and follow their activity system with varied levels of support. This also prepares our children for life. They are becoming familiar with the signs and symbols used within our daily routine and this in itself is a huge deal to enhance their communication.

We hope you have a lovely weekend

Fran and the team

 

 

We have had another action packed week here in school and we have begun to settle in to our new daily routines. We have managed a lot more transitions around school this week, with our little legends becoming more settled and accepting of their new school.

This week we have made our own class poppies for Remembrance Day and explored the red and black colours that a poppy is made up of, the children thoroughly enjoyed gluing and sticking crape paper onto our poppies to create fabulous flowers of remembrance.

We also explored the ingredients that are used to make playdough and had a very fun afternoon exploring flour and water and feeling the textures in our hands. We got very messy and had the most fun. We have also had fun with dough disco and zips and buttons in our fine motor lesson.

This week we were so lucky to have the opportunity to explore a fire engine as West Denton Fire Station kindly brought their appliance for all of our children to explore. They have been so kind and raised a considerable amount of money for our school to buy us a new gantry which we require in a class.

Dates to remember

Children in Need 18^th of November. Children can come to school in PJ’s or non-school uniform.