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Building Pyramids and Fishing in the Nile

22nd May 2024Marc Teasdale

We’ve had an incredible time here in Marc’s class! Check out Episode 7 of our Blogcast here!

 

Everybody has made incredible progress in every area, particularly their communication, understanding and social skills! We have officially begun our new topic for the Summer but before we talk about that, take a look at some of the official photography from this year’s Coram Shakespeare Schools Festival! We performed ‘Julius Caesar’ at the Northern Stage last term and, as ever, blew everybody away with our incredible production! James, in particular, was magnificent in the lead role:

We have been learning all about Ancient Egypt for our new topic. We know that the Ancient Egyptian people had a king that was known as a pharaoh. When they died they were kept safe as a mummy in a pyramid. The people of Egypt at the time used the River Nile to wash their clothes, grow crops and catch fish to eat. We have used these four key concepts to support learning in class. We have all taken turns at acting as the pharaoh and leading the class using our VOCAs. We have used our problem solving skills (and fine motor skills) to create mummies out of our favourite toys (and ourselves!) while we have used bricks to create our own pyramids. We have used our magnetised fishing game to ‘fish in the Nile’ and this has supported our understanding of numerals and 1:1 correspondence in Maths. We visited the Great North Museum to check out some Ancient Egyptian artefacts (and we loved everything else on offer too!) Check it out:

Congratulations to Sophia and James who are our most recent Celebration Assembly Award winners!

Have a fun-filled and safe half term everyone! Not long until the Summer Holidays… where has the time gone!?

Marc

 

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Old and New Spice

15th February 2024Marc Teasdale

What an incredible half term we’ve had! Check out Episode 6 of our Blogcast right here!

For starters we must say well done to EVERYBODY that contributed to Tommy Thompson’s tribute assembly! We all had a fantastic afternoon with a lot of laughs. A particular well done to our new and old Spice Girls who wowed everybody with their performance of ‘Stop’ (complete with dance moves). ‘Simon Cowell’ wasn’t overly impressed but when is he ever! Check out our old and new Spice Girls below!

We must also say a MASSIVE congratulations to our Celebration Assembly Award recipient, Divine! Divine has made incredible progress in his concentration, communication and engagement! Well done Divine, we are so very proud of you!

A very big congratulations must go to Marc, Alice and Bea who welcomed baby Bonnie to the world on 5th January 2024… and here she is!

Have a wonderful half term everyone! Shakespeare Season will be well underway when we return to school! We can’t wait to present our version of ‘Julius Caesar’ to you all!

Thanks,

Marc’s Class

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Merry Christmas!

21st December 2023Marc Teasdale

What an amazing second half of the term we’ve had! Before we get into any of the incredible fun we’ve had over the Christmas period, we must make special mention of the end of our ‘Space’ topic! Not only did we have a brilliant time at the Centre for Life, but we also put together our very own outer space experience. We powered through ‘Astronaut Bootcamp’ before taking flight to the moon in our rocket ship – during the journey we moved around without gravity and we marveled at the constellations in the sky (which we made ourselves and projected onto the wall!) When we arrived on the moon we explored to our heart’s content and even met an alien before returning to Hadrian School in our rocket. You can check out some photos of our Drama experience below and get a real feel for the afternoon by watching episode 4 of our Blogcast (just follow the link):

Blogcast – Episode 4

We have all loved the run up to Christmas! We loved meeting Santa on the ‘Santa Bus’ and had a great time visiting ‘Winter Wonderscape’ at the Metro Centre. We sang our hearts out at our Christmas Carol Service, had an amazing time at our Chistmas party and performed an absolutely magical re-telling of Raymond Briggs’ ‘The Bear’ as part of our live Christmas show. We told the story of an adventurous polar bear (played by Sehrish) who followed a bird out of her bear cave and ended up running afoul of a group of fishermen. She ended up at the zoo where she met the little girl and her parents (played by Sophia, James and Sofia respectively). As luck would have it she manages to escape the zoo and make it to the little girl’s house where they have lots of fun and dance to their favourite music. Although the bear is happy to have met the little girl she misses the bear cave and follows the stars to get home – this part of our performance was partially accompanied by Sofia playing ‘Carol of the Bells’ on the piano… absolutely amazing stuff! You can check out our Christmas activities in the photos below as well as in episode 5 of our Blogcast (where you can also see part of our Christmas performance!)

Blogcast – Episode 5

Well done everybody on an amazing first term of the school year! Everybody has made amazing progress already and this is just the beginning! We hope everybody has an amazing and safe Christmas holidays and we will see you in the new year!

Merry Christmas everybody!

Marc

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Ground Control to Major Tom

23rd October 2023Marc Teasdale

We’ve had a fantastic first half term back at school and have really hit the ground running with lots of amazing progress, relationship building and fun! Meet some of our friends below:

We have already made incredible progress in every area from communication to preparation for life and independence! You can check out the first three episodes of our Blogcast below:

Blogcast – Episode 1

Blogcast – Episode 2

Blogcast – Episode 3

We have loved working on our new Topic, Space! We have learned all about four key features of outer space (the moon, rockets, astronauts and the sun) and have come up with our own action for each one! We have even started our very own space story in which a group of astronauts travel to the moon to see who they can find there. We will be taking this experience and expanding it in our Sports Hall after half term… we can’t wait! Check us out creating the backdrop for our ‘Space’ themed classroom display below:

Have a fantastic half term everybody and well done on all that you have achieved already! We can’t wait to see what the rest of the year will bring!

Marc

 

 

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Summertime!

21st July 2023Marc Teasdale

Here we are, the final day of the final term of this incredible school year! It has been another year full of fun and friendship here in Marc’s class and we are absolutely over the moon with the progress we have all made! From communication to social skills and everything in between, we could not be more thrilled with how well we have all thrived this year!

These last few weeks have been a very fitting end to such a momentous year. You can see all the highlights in the finale episode of our Blogcast here!

Our Year 6 Activity Week was a roaring success and we had great fun at Newburn Leisure Centre, Prudhoe Waterworld, South Shields Pleasure Beach, Hall Hill Farm and Inflatanation! Check out some photos below:

We also had lots of fun at our Music Festival. The ‘Musical Meander’ featured lots of different types of music from jazz to classical to music from Africa! We loved the carnival, cèilidh and live music courtesy of Phil Cookson and his band and some stellar rapping from James Oglethorpe (accompanied by a very talented DJ!)  Check out photos below:

And lastly, we must say a huge congratulations and farewell to our Year 6 friends! There wasn’t a dry eye in the house during this year’s Leavers’ Assembly as we watched the progression of our friends from their first days at Hadrian to now. We know you will continue to thrive in you new schools and we are incredibly proud of you all! Check out photos below:

Have an amazing and safe Summer Holidays everybody! We’ve had a blast!

See you in September,

Marc

Marc's Blog

To Town and Back!

25th May 2023Marc Teasdale

What an amazing half term its been! There’s been progress and celebrations and fun fairs and birthdays and lots and lots of fun! We have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about Newcastle and absolutely LOVED travelling into town on the bus and putting our amazing communication and social skills to the test in real world situations!

We paid ourselves on to the bus and found a seat together, chatting and joking as the bus drove us into town. When we arrived (after pressing the bell of course) our very own James used his VOCA to direct the group to the cafe where we all ordered and ate our snack (with very minimal support!)

Afterwards we headed to Tesco where Jack was able to ask for help in finding what we needed and pay for it at the till.

You can check all of this out in episode 11 of our Blogcast right here!

We must also say a massive congratulations to our half term achiever James for his amazing independence and confidence as demonstrated by his incredible VOCA skills, problem solving and mature attitude! Well deserved!

Have a wonderful half term everybody! Stay safe!

Marc

Marc's Blog

Off to the Fun Fair!

28th April 2023Marc Teasdale

Good afternoon everyone! No doubt we will cover this in our next Blogcast but please enjoy some snaps from our trip to Nuns Moor Fun Fair! We had a fantastic time and would like to extend a very special thank you to everyone that works there for our very special VIP visit! Check out our photos below:

Have a great weekend – see you on Wednesday!

Marc

Marc's Blog

We’re Back!

21st April 2023Marc Teasdale

Welcome back everybody! We hope you’ve all had a fun and exciting Easter Holidays (and not eaten too much chocolate!) – we have had an amazing first week back!

We began our new topic this week and will be learning all about what makes our home town of Newcastle so special! We looked at Newcastle’s different bridges, our love of football, our delicious food and our historical castles! We made up an action for each of these to help us remember and even transformed our Sports Hall into our very own mini Newcastle.

We have, of course, looked back at our staggering triumph at the Northern Stage where we performed ‘Othello’ as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival. We selected a picture from our official set of photographs (some of which can be seen below) and painted our own interpretation with amazing results.

Check out all of this and more in our latest Blogcast here!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Marc's Blog

Shakespeare Season Continues…

10th March 2023Marc Teasdale

Here we are, less than three weeks until our performance of ‘Othello’ at the Northern Stage as part of this year’s Shakespeare Schools Festival! We are all working extremely hard and, as always, have gone above and beyond with with our individual roles and performances. Check out some (spoiler free) shots of what we have so far!

We were joined by a very special guest this week. Emily from the Coram Shakespeare Foundation joined us for our cast workshop and was very impressed with what we have so far! She also played lots of Drama games with us and supported us in creating large movements and faces so that our audience can see exactly what our character is doing in the moment! Check out our workshop below:

We had a great time honing our skills and celebrating our achievements! We really can’t wait to share all of our hard work in a few weeks time!

Have a great weekend,

Marc

Marc's Blog

World Book Week!

9th March 2023Marc Teasdale

We had a fantastic World Book Week last week! We loved reading all of our favourite Julia Donaldson stories as well as putting our dance moves to the test with Dance Rox and meeting lots of different animals with Zoo Lab. The assembly was great fun too as we played ‘The Masked Story Teller’ and showed off our amazing costumes.

Check out everything we got up to in Episode 9 of our Blogcast!

Marc

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