Christmas Is A Time………

19th December 2020June Ball

To do lots of lovely things. This week has been another busy week. On Monday we enjoyed our Christmas Party with our friends from Dave’s class. We all went into the Sports Hall and played different games together and also danced together to our favourite Christmas tunes. It was so lovely to see our children helping Dave’s children if they needed help. This is surely what Christmas is about? We then came back to class for a wonderful party tea. Many thanks to our generous families who provided such a wonderful spread. Very delicious.

During the week we continued to work on our cards, calendars, Christmas biscuits and other creative things. We are sure you will  like them and treasure them for years to come.

On Thursday we enjoyed Christmas lunch, this year in our classroom. We missed being altogether but it was really lovely having it in our beautifully decorated room. The table looked fantastic and we had Christmas music and videos on the Smart Board. The food was delicious and so much of it!

To round off the day we all went outside with the whole school with blankets and hot chocolate for our carol concert. This is the first year we have held it outside and we must say, it was so atmospheric being outside in the garden. Maybe this will become the new way to do it. If you go onto the Friends Of Hadrian Face page on our website you will be able to watch a tiny bit of it.  What a wonderful week. We look forward to our last two days next week finishing with our Nativity Assembly on Thursday to which you are all invited.( Zoom details to follow)

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for your very thoughtful and generous gifts and of course your continued support in this most difficult of years. We all hope and pray for a much better 2021!

June Babs, Sue, Louise, Alyson and Ann.

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

10th December 2020June Ball

What a fabulous week we have had in school. We have been singing Christmas songs, baking Christmas treats and even spreading Christmas cheer!

This week the whole school have been busy decorating hearts so we could send a lot of love to Ashton Court Care Home for the holidays. On Tuesday our class played the role of Santa’s little elves and had a lovely walk to deliver the hearts to the staff team so they could pass them over to the residents on our behalf. The staff were delighted with all of our hard work! Take a look!

The Christmas cheer hasn’t stopped there! We have been making lots of Christmas treats this week. Baking Christmas tree biscuits, creating our very own snowmen for the class display  and getting our creative hats on to make some special surprises to take home for Christmas!

Children in Need!

13th November 2020June Ball

What a fantastic start to the weekend we have had!

Today we celebrated Children in Need and all came to school in our best Pudsey outfits so we could raise money for a fantastic cause! We have had a great day doing all things Pudsey! With a special assembly, making our own little Pudsey bears with the playdough and even making our own Pudsey bears come to life with the iPads!

Take a look!

It was wonderful to have Dua back in school this week. She has settled into her new class so well. We thought she deserved a medal in Assembly Here she is collecting her medal from Mr Rollings.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Babs, Louise, Mrs Ball, Sue, Alyson and Ann.

Remembrance Day

13th November 2020June Ball

This Wednesday we celebrated Remembrance day. In the morning we created some beautiful poppies in art and decorated our freshly baked poppy cookies for snack, in the afternoon we had an assembly to learn all about remembrance day and think of all of those in and out of school who have lost their lives.

Sparkles and Spooks!

6th November 2020June Ball

What a fantastic first week back we have had!

This week still full of excitement from the weekend we celebrated with a our class Halloween party! We all came in dressed in our spooky outfits and had a morning of spooky Halloween activities! We decorated biscuits and made our own pumpkins. In the afternoon we had lots of Halloween games and even a disco! What a great day.

The fun didn’t stop there!

On Thursday we celebrated Bonfire Night with fireworks! In the morning we created our own fireworks in art and then the whole school got together to enjoy some socially distanced campfire songs and fireworks, it was the first time we have all got together since coming back to school in September and it was great to see all of our friends. We then came back to class and warmed ourselves up with some hot chocolate and dancing.

Have a great weekend everyone!

We Made It & Goodbye To Jess

25th October 2020June Ball

Well we made it through the first half term. We are so proud of all our children, families and also our Team for successfully completing the last 7 weeks. We want to say a huge “thank you” for all of your support in these very difficult times. We know that a few of our children are still not with us but hope you have felt part of our class through the activities on Dojo and also through the Zoom Circle Times and Assemblies. We very much hope you will be back in school soon. Our children as always have risen to the challenge and worked incredibly hard in face of all of the uncertainty.

We’ve had a really god last week including continuing to explore “The Gruffalo” story in the Caterpillar Garden and also spending a day in the Yurt.

We enjoyed listening to the story outside where we met the different characters. We then split into small groups to build the three different homes – Fox’s underground house, Snake’s Logpile house and Owl’s Treetop house.

On Friday we spent the whole day in the Yurt. What a great day we had and even had our lunch in the Yurt. We danced and sang, played musical instruments and also played games using the lycra.

And sadly we also said “Goodbye” to our lovely Jess who left us on Friday. We will really miss her but very much hope we will stay in touch and when it is safe to do so, link up with her new school, Gibside. We wish her and her family all the very best.

We hope you have a safe and peaceful half term and look forward to seeing you on 2nd November.

Babs, June, Jess, Sue, Louise and Ann.

Exploring Autumn Continued

15th October 2020June Ball

We continue to explore Autumn linking it to the whole curriculum. In Art we studied different ways of making autumn trees and by making the most out of the outdoor space, we did a spot of paint splattering using autumn coloured paint. We will use the pieces as a background for our trees when we complete them next week.

In Science/Humanities we have started to think about different woodland animals and we began our learning by using the PowerPoint, “What am I?” We were delighted to be able to share this with our friends who are currently at home. Sophia and her parents joined us and Sophia came up with some great ideas as to what the animals might be. We are learning all about hedgehogs and began our learning by making a Hedgehog Hotel. We found out what materials we needed and then we placed it outside to hopefully be used by some friendly hedgehogs.

 

In Maths we have been using the natural materials we have collected to develop our counting skills and also to match amounts to numerals.

Finally, we are really getting to grips with Zoom and utilising it to connect with our children and parents at home. We have been “Zooming” our Circle times and also sharing what we are doing in class via Dojo. We want to praise our wonderful families for all the work they are doing at home and for sharing the work on Dojo.

We hope you have a good weekend

Babs, Mrs Ball, Sue, Jess, Loiuse and Ann

Get Moving!

9th October 2020June Ball

 

We had a fantastic free movement PE session in the school hall last week. We set out an array of different equipment and let everyone spin, jump, run, stretch, dance and crawl in any way they would like. It was great to see all of the children sharing, playing together and putting their own unique twist on the equipment.

Leni-Jayne had a brilliant idea of making the equipment into her own obstacle course! While Eyah took the chance to get her dancing shoes on and show off her moves. Everyone gave 100% to the session with huge smiling faces! Well done everybody!

 

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

 

Let’s Look At What We’ve Been Doing

6th October 2020June Ball

Here are a selection of photographs to show you some of the things we have been doing in class over the past few weeks. We are missing you all very much and hope to be back with our Hadrian family soon.

Mrs Ball, Babs, Sue, jess, Louise and Ann,