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 22nd 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
Hello and welcome to this weeks blog!
Its been a fun filled week in Loveday’s class as always and we have packed lots of wonderful activities in alongside our usual timetable!
Some of this week’s highlights are our Autumn Exploration session which we did on Tuesday. We went out in to the Adventure Playground and we collected lots of autumn leaves, sticks and conkers to bring back to class. The children had so much fun jumping in the leaves and throwing them up in the air. We made such a mess but it was definitely worth it!
We have also celebrated Diwali this week! Happy Diwali to those of you celebrating on Monday!
Sticking with the theme of the festival of lights we had lots of coloured lights in class, as well as some lovely music, coloured rice and musical instruments!
We also joined our friends in Phil’s class for a Diwali Party on Friday afternoon, their classroom looked amazing we had costumes, food, lights, music, songs and lots of fun!
We hope you all have a lovely week off!
See you all on Monday 31st October when we come back to school!
Loveday, Shannon, Pete, Sarah, Jen, Jen, Toni and Sam x
It’s been a very busy and fun filled week this week here in Loveday’s Class.
We began our week with our Sensory Diet session, it’s always a favorite of ours and is a great way to start our week. We enjoy lots of bouncing, spinning, rolling, rocking and massage. We then got in the mood for Harvest by enjoying a Harvest themed exploration session which everyone absolutely loved!
We’ve also enjoyed lots of of usual timetabled activities such as Rebound, Hydrotherapy and Jabadao. We’ve also had lots of fun getting wrapped up warm and enjoying Outdoor Learning! The smiles speak for themselves!
Hello everyone and welcome to our blog! We hope you all had an amazing summer!
After a well deserved break the children cam back to school last Wednesday and we dived straight in to our usual timetable. This week we have done Jabadao, Exploration, Water Play, Outdoor Learning, Rebound Therapy, Sensory Story and lots more. As you can see we’re all very happy to be back at school with our friends.
Enjoy some lovely pictures from our first week back 🙂
Hello and welcome to this week’s blog. This week has been a very busy one with lots going on inside and outside of school. It has been the Year 6 activity week so two of our children have been out enjoying lots of different fun days every day this week!
On Monday we went to Newburn Park where the children were able to try out lots of adapted bikes so they were accessible for everyone! The children loved riding around the Newburn Leisure Centre and had a fantastic time with all of their friends in Year 6. After lots of fun on the bikes we headed to the Keelman for lunch. We were really lucky with the weather too so the children enjoyed eating their dinner outside in the sunshine. We ended the day by going to play in the park and enjoying an ice-cream to cool us down before heading back to school.
On Tuesday we had a visit from the ‘Bubbleologist’. The children had lots of fun with bubbles and some us even got inside of some giant bubbles! For lunch we had a special delivery from La Famila. The children and the staff enjoyed tucking in to pizzas as a special treat!
On Wednesday our Year 6 children went to South Shields Fair! We had so much fun going on lots of different rides. We couldn’t go to the coast without having fish and chips either!
On Thursday we took a trip to Inflatanation, which is a huge bouncy castle style soft play! The children had lots of fun going on the big slides and playing in the ball pool! We ended the day with a walk around Royal Quays. The children loved getting to hold some of the animals in the pet shop too!
For our last day out, on Friday we went to Hallhill Farm, we all had a great time seeing lots of different animals!
We hope all of the Year 6’s at Hadrian have had an amazing Activity Week!
Those of us who stayed in school have also had a very busy week we’ve enjoyed lots of our usual activities such as Rebound, Swimming, Soft Play and lots of Outdoor Learning but the highlight of the week had to be the Hadrian Carnival!
In preparation for the Carnival the children created their own banner filled with lots of colours to take to the parade. We began the parade at the entrance of school. We followed the Samba band and paraded around the school grounds – everyone had musical instruments, flags, banners and lots of colourful costumes! We paraded around the school grounds before stopping at the Adventure Playground to listen to the Steel Pan Band!
We spent the afternoon singing and dancing with the band – everyone had a fantastic time! Take a look at some of our pictures.
