Hello 2024! Hope you all are refreshed and raring to go. What an amazing half term we had at the end of 2023. We’ve participated in trips, exploration, Christmas activities and a visit from the fabulous Timbadash all while still working hard on our individual outcomes.

We kick started the autumn half term with bonfire night (or should we say day) where we watched some fireworks and enjoyed exploring outside in the crisp autumn air. Some of our friends had the opportunity to visit Café Beam in Ouseburn with Dave’s class where we saw some old friends – it was so nice to see some of our old pupils now working in the café!

We worked alongside Timbadash in a six week project in preparation for their new show Wintry Night. We all enjoyed the sessions each week seeing what exciting new world Timbadash created for us. Wintery Night was as beautiful, adventurous, engaging and as we imagined it would be with a lovely visit from Hoot the owl. It was the perfect way to get us in the festive spirit!

Christmas was full of many adventures with elf day where we done a sponsored exploration, the Christmas bus with Santa, nativity play, advent assembly, our class trip to Lilidorei, Christmas carol concert as well as our Christmas show. This was all very busy but so much fun.

We are eager to see what 2024 has to bring and the new topics and adventures we will be participating in.

Loveday and the team.

This week we have been very busy in Loveday’s Class. As part of our ‘Pop Up Shop’ project our budding artists have loved working with some of their friends from Scott’s class to create some beautiful pieces to sell and to display in school. Our most recent project was very messy – but definitely worth it! We covered our pagoda in paper and canvases ready to create some unique and colourful pieces. We had lots of fun using balloons, spray bottles, and bottles to splatter paint on our blank canvases.

Take a look at our Condercum Crafts website: https://hadrianschool.wixsite.com/condercum-crafts

This week we have also had a visit to the Tim Lamb Centre which was enjoyed by all. We were able to explore outside with the swings, playhouses, slides, trampolines and much more. After lunch we explored inside which involved the soft play everyone had a turn going down the big twisty slide! We then finished our day using the trampolines which of course were a big favourite in our class.

What a happy, festive start to the week having an Eid assembly. Some of our class enjoyed listening to the story read by Mr. Rolling’s while some of the class enjoyed being in soft play. We also had a chance to listen to some music and try some food brought in by some of our friends in Hadrian which was so tasty! Our day was followed by having a party with friends from Dave and Phil’s class full of music, bubbles and singing.

We’ve thoroughly enjoyed our session in the Hydropool where we are exploring pouring and filling, splashing and floating on our backs. We have been working really hard using our Core Vocabulary and Communication Activity Boards throughout the session too!

A new session we have been doing is the preparation for life. We have been using our own personal hygiene products to practice some skills such as brushing our teeth, washing our hands and face, combing our hair and even filing our nails. The hand washing is our favorite being able to make bubbles in the water with the soap.

Since coming back from the Easter holidays we have a new exploration topic ‘sticky’. This has been interesting to look at. We’ve been able to explore resources such as magnets, different sellotape’s, PVA glue, playdough and slowly we have become more confident in exploring them more independently and getting all messy.

Have a lovely weekend,

Loveday and the team.

This week we started one of our new sessions and it went really well! It’s a ‘Preparation for Life’ session, we are focusing on personal care. We want to encourage our children to be as independent as possible when completing daily tasks and to help those children who may find these activities frightening. We worked on brushing our teeth, hair and washing our hands and face. We all had lots of fun as well as learning new skills and building up our confidence!

Loveday and team x

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to our first blog of 2023. On Sunday the 22^nd January it is also Chinese New Year and we love to celebrate in true Hadrian style! This week in our class we enjoyed a Chinese New Year themed exploration session to get us all in the spirit. We listened to traditional Chinese music and explored some traditional Chinese clothing. We also loved getting messy using foam which was coloured red to represent good luck and fortune!

Our Chinese New Year assembly was a hit with our class too. The children loved singing and dancing to ‘Gung Hay Fat Choy’ which is our favourite song about New Year. We also enjoyed tasting lots of food such as noodles, fortune cookies and lots more! The dragon dance got us all up on our feet and some of us even joined in the parade.

We’ve also worked super hard doing lots of our usual activities: Swimming, Jabadao, Sensory Story, Soft Play, Outdoor Learning and Exploration.

This week we have definitely made the most of the snow. We got wrapped up warm and went to the Adventure Playground to try our hand at sledging! It’s safe to say we have a class of daring children because everyone loved going to the top of the hill to go down super fast!

We’ve had such a busy week in Loveday’s Class! Our usual timetable has changed a bit to fit in all of our Christmas fun and lots of other brilliant events! On Wednesday we had a Celebration of Diversity! It was fantastic! We enjoyed joining in with lots of music, signing and dancing. We were able to explore a variety of instruments from other countries as well as trying lots of delicious food and Henna! We all had a lovely time.

On Friday it was Elf Day in school! We all came in dressed up as elves or wearing red and green. We took part in the whole school Elf Parade and in the afternoon we had our sponsored Elf Dance! Thank you to everyone who sponsored us!!

This week has been very busy, jam packed with lots of our favourite activities. On Monday some of us enjoyed Water Play on Monday morning, while some of the class stayed to do our Sensory Diet session. We had a super Swimming session on Tuesday, it’s definitely everyone’s favourite time of the week – always scoring highly on our Engagement Board. On Wednesday we all worked hard in Jabadao doing lots of climbing, crawling, spinning and bouncing! Thursday mornings are always full of fun because it’s our turn to use the Rebound Therapy Centre! Everyone in our class loves Rebound! Friday afternoon we also had Sensory Circuits.

As well as all of these physical activities we’ve also managed to squeeze in lots of Outdoor Learning and Exploration sessions in to this week! On Monday’s we have Exploration in the morning and this theme changes weekly – this week we did building. We used lots of different blocks, Lego and Duplo. The children loved building and knocking down the towers. On Wednesday afternoon we also do Exploration, this theme stays the same and this half term we are learning all about circles. We use bubbles, balls, balloons and lots more!

The fun doesn’t stop there though, we enjoyed Soft Play on Thursday afternoon as well as having a special birthday party for Ameenah who turned 10! We all had a fantastic time celebrating her birthday!

Welcome back!

We’ve had a great start to the half term! This week we have enjoyed lots of our usual timetabled activities as well as having a very special afternoon on Wednesday! We invited our children’s families to join us for a very fun play session. It was so nice to meet some of our lovely families! Thank you all so much for coming in and spending the afternoon with us!

We have enjoyed some Bonfire Night activities too. On Thursday afternoon we had a Bonfire Night themed Exploration session. The children painted some firework pictures using shaving foam and paint – as you can see we all got very messy! They also loved exploring the ‘rainbow rice’, drums, rockets and lots of colourful materials.

On Friday afternoon we also had a firework display at school! We all really enjoyed looking at the bonfire and all of the fireworks!

Loveday and team x