We have had a lovely day outdoors today, we have spent all day exploring different outdoor environments. We started this morning thinking about what sorts of things we needed to keep ourselves dry when outdoors and carefully selected the correct items of clothing that would help us do this. Waterproof trousers, raincoats and wellies at the ready!

We also thought about the kinds of drinks that would help us to stay warm and made some yummy hot chocolate to take with us, not forgetting some delicious chocolate biscuits to have for snack.

We then headed outdoors to the caterpillar garden and set up two tents. The children really listened well to the instructions from the adults and worked in two teams to put the tents up correctly. It was then all about exploring what it felt like to be inside the tent and listening carefully to the noises around us. We enjoyed our delicious hot chocolate and biscuits to keep us going until dinnertime.

This afternoon the children also got to go into the mud kitchen, this was thoroughly enjoyed by all, using the water, mud and pots and pans to make lots of fabulous concoctions. It was very messy but so much fun!

Well this week has been very short, but still long enough to get plenty learning and hard work in! We thought that the children deserved a well-earned spa afternoon to finish the week off after such a disrupted week to their routine.

The class all enjoyed some relaxation time and massage with lovely chilled out music in the background. They also took turns to use the foot spa and Mandy brought in her special back massager which everyone had a turn of too. We had some different foods out for the children to use to move around their faces using a mirror and brush, which went down a treat! The children have thoroughly enjoyed this down time and took advantage of being able to relax on the beanbags with blankets.

We wish you all a very happy weekend and look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Hello, sorry we have had no blog for the last two weeks, the class have been so busy enjoying all of their learning that we forgot to share it with you! So let us get you up to speed with what we have been up to.

We have been looking at the story ‘Stickman’ by Julia Donaldson in English, the class have done lots of fantastic work around retelling parts of the story and looking at the feelings of the characters. As well as practising our writing skills and letter formations. We have our very own Stickman song that we enjoy singing to get us ready to work.

In maths we have been using our number skills in a variety of activities to practise counting. The children have thoroughly enjoyed playing shop and being able to use the till to count how many items their friends were buying from them.

In Science we have been looking at materials and their properties, we started the topic by going around the outdoor areas in search for some sticks, leaves, flowers and blackberries. The class loved leading the way to show us where they could find these items.

We have been making the most of the lovely weather too and took our Art lesson outside on to the decking. The children used water colours to create self-portraits. There were some fantastic creative paintings made.

We were kindly given some apples from Phil’s parents who have their very own apple tree! We decided to make use of the apples in Cookery by making a delicious apple crumble and some homemade apple juice. We had to use a range of skills when making these including; cutting, mixing, squeezing, mashing (with a fork) and of course tasting!

We have also had a very physical couple of weeks, we are lucky to have football club on a Monday lunchtime so the children have been able to use the skills they are learning in PE on a Monday morning and transferring them to the lunch club. We have also had a go on the trim trail which was a huge hit with the class, this is a great way to challenge our balance and movement skills. Not forgetting that we have been doing Cosmic Yoga in class too to stretch ourselves out.

Another fabulous couple of weeks and we can’t wait to see what the rest of the week brings for the class!

We are so excited to be back in school and to get straight in to a new routine with the class after a very long time off! It has been such uncertain times and we are sure all of you and the children are anxious about what school will be like now but please be assured we are doing our best to make sure it is as safe and as normal as possible for everyone. We will be using class Dojo for communication between home and school to minimise the amount of belongings that come in and out of school. Thank you to those parents who have already joined, please get in touch if you need any help to access or join our class.

This week has been fantastic for our first week in year 2. The children have been full of energy and it is so nice to see how happy and settled they already are in their new classroom with a new staff team. We have a new friend to Hadrian school called Libby. She has settled really well in her first week in year 2 and has already made some lovely friendships with the children in class.

We have been super busy and already done lots of amazing work, we have had a range of activities and lessons already in our first week and the children have engaged amazingly well. On Tuesday we spent some time getting to know eachother and getting used to our new environment. In the afternoon we went on a treasure hunt to find some cakes that had been taken by Jess. This was lots of fun and it gave us all a chance to familiarise ourselves again with the school grounds.

We did cooking on Wednesday morning, we made banana cakes. The children were fabulous at measuring out the ingredients and mixing them all together. We then taste tested the cakes for snack and they were a massive hit!

In Art we were busy doing painting and collage work to go on display on the birthday board. Thursday we had English, we were thinking back to what was used to make the banana cakes and constructing our own sentences to describe what we did. This was follwed by Maths where we were looking at the language ‘the same’ and finding objects around school that were the same as the pictures in our booklets. Thursday afternoon we enjoyed getting physical in Rebound. And we have finished off the week today with a whole school Zoom sing along and we will be having some choosing time this afternoon.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing everyone again on Monday for another week of fun!

Our topic this half term is World War II. We have been doing lots of learning this week around the war and the children have engaged so well in all of the activities. They have been making fantastic use of the air raid shelter and when they hear the siren go off they know they need to climb in or hide under a table!

In Cookery we looked at rationing in the war and made our very own butter using cream. The class also made rationing books which were then used to get their snack allowance. We have been dressing up as soldiers and Michelle put the children through their pace in training on the trim trail.

In Art the children have been making gas masks and boxes for them to go in to. A variety of materials were used to create these. The class have enjoyed trying these out and getting in to role.

We also had to evacuate to the countryside. The children packed up and went out to our stagecoach play bus where we had to climb aboard and make our way to the country, leaving the town behind!

Class 3/4 Team

This week we have been busy not only with lots of reading for world book day, but we have been doing lots more hard work in Science, English, Maths and P.E.

We started planting some vegetables and herbs in Science, we worked out what we needed to help them grow and got busy putting it all together to look after and watch grow in the coming weeks and months.

In English we have been practising our letter formations to help us with writing our names. In Maths we continued learning about time and made our very own clocks to help us tell the time. Some children have been working hard on creating their own patterns and working out what comes next in a patterned arrangement of coloured blocks.

We also took part in Story Yoga with Ellen for world book day. We listened to the story of ‘The Gruffalo’ and made our bodies into different shapes for all of the animals from the story. We even turned each other into the Gruffalo using pegs for the prickles on his back! This was great fun and the children excelled themselves in the positions they were able to get their bodies in to.

Happy Friday and we hope you all have a great weekend.

Class 3/4 Team.

Class 3/4 thoroughly enjoyed getting dressed up for world book day yesterday. There were some fantastic outfits from both children and staff. The day was filled with some excellent reading with different friends around school. We also went on our very own treasure hunt in the morning to find some of the much loved books we have in Hadrian. Ending the hunt with a special yummy treat for the children to eat. We ended a very exciting day with a whole school assembly. We got to witness some of the most incredible well thought out costumes from across the school, cheering our friends on as they walked down the cat walk to show them off. We also were able to take part in and watch some great performances of well-loved stories. A great day had by all!

Class 3/4 Team.

Class 3/4

Olaf

Cat in the Hat

Willy Wonka

Toy Solider

Hulk

Chase – Paw Patrol

Chewbacca

Spiderman

Mr Ali

Horrid Henry