This week we have been busy making bread for the Harvest Festival ‘Bake Off’ assembly on Wednesday. The children enjoyed mixing all the ingredients together and using their cookery skills to knead the dough. We decided to make a yummy cheesy garlic bread to accompany our very own Baltic Flour Mill. The children were excellent at spreading the toppings on to the bread and building the Baltic. They also chose which toppings they wanted on their own garlic breads, fabulous work from all of class 3/4. We called our class creation ‘a night on the town’. It was a tough competition this year with lots of excellent entries; unfortunately we did not win the bake off but we did enjoy eating our creation for snack. We would like to congratulate Coralie’s class who gained the winning tea towel! We would also like to thank everyone for their harvest donations which will be passed on to Newcastle West End Foodbank. This is greatly appreciated.

We have also been busy this week in Science continuing with learning about hard and soft as well as rough and smooth. Some children went on an adventure around school to see what they could find with these properties, whilst others got messy making and exploring play dough.

The class also enjoyed a trip to Lidl yesterday morning to collect some yummy treats for snack, before we set off the children made their very own shopping lists which we used to find and buy the snacks.

Excellent work by everyone again this week. Another week of being super proud of every single one of our children and what they have achieved! Enjoy a lovely weekend.

Class 3/4 Team

This week we have really been working hard across the curriculum and getting back in to the swing of things. The children have particularly enjoyed and worked well in PE, Cookery and Phonics.

We have enjoyed getting physical this week and getting our bodies moving and stretching in PE and Cosmic Yoga. We have also been working on our fine motor skills through the use of mark making, shaving foam and using magnets. In cookery we made some scrumptious jam tarts which the class enjoyed for snack, they used lots of skills to make them including rolling, cutting and filling. In Phonics the class enjoyed working on their sound discrimination skills and going outdoors with beaters to make their own sounds. In literacy we have continued with our story Stick Man and in Numeracy we have been building on our knowledge of numbers and counting as well as learning about big and small.

On Tuesday we had our first class trip out and went to the Angel of the North. It was such a successful trip we are heading out again next Tuesday to the Quayside!

Another fantastic week in class 3/4. We are all looking forward to another busy week starting Monday.

3/4 Team

This week we have started our topic work for the term, we are learning about landmarks where we live. So where better to head to than the Angel of the North?

The children had a fabulous afternoon on Tuesday experiencing the giant steel sculpture. They enjoyed climbing on the feet of the angel and sliding back down. The weather was beautiful and the children embraced the big grass hill by doing roly-poly’s from the top to the bottom. Some children even made their own angel’s by using their shadows. A great afternoon was had by the whole class.

Our next trip will be on the morning of Tuesday 24^th September. We are heading to the Quayside in Newcastle to look at some more landmarks

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Welcome to class 3/4.

What a fantastic start to the school year. The children in class 3/4 have settled into their new class so quickly and are really beginning to show us how brilliant they are. We have had a lovely first couple of weeks getting to know the children and introducing the staff that will be working with them for the year ahead. The children are starting to get used to our routines in class and have responded fantastically to incredibly busy school days.

We have a new friend in class called Muhammad. Muhammad is new to Hadrian school and is starting to find his way around the school and making lots of new friends. We wish Muhammad a happy and fun time in his journey through Hadrian school.

We have started some literacy and numeracy work this week. In literacy we have introduced the children to the story Stick Man by Julia Donaldson which led us on to making our very own stickmen in Art. We collected sticks from the adventure playground and used them to make stick men with our own faces. In Numeracy we have been busy learning about big and small and working on our counting skills. The children engaged really well in the various activities including building towers, exploring big and small shapes and knocking down skittles.

In cookery we made pizzas and sandwiches. Choosing their own toppings and fillings the children really got stuck in to using different skills to choose, spread and chop the ingredients to make their perfect pizza and sandwich. They then enjoyed eating what they had made for their snack.

The children participated in cosmic yoga yesterday and showed us just how flexible they are with the different positions they could make with their bodies.

We have also had time to fit in a litter pick around school this week to help keep our school nice and tidy! The children were absolutely fantastic as they took their litter pickers and went around the grounds picking up lots of litter. They really are fantastic at helping to keep our school clean and tidy.

We are looking forward to a fun, happy and busy year ahead with the children in class.

Wishing everyone a lovely, happy and restful weekend in preparation for another fun filled week.

3/4 Team

Hello, and welcome to our final blog of the term. It’s been a very busy term with loads going on and we are very grateful for all your support. We’ve had review, parent’s evenings and lots more going on and we are looking forward to another busy term next term.

We are very much looking forward to performing our play for you all on Wednesday 1^st May; we’ll be serving tea and coffee before and then performing!

This week we have had a lovely fun filled week with lots of nice things going on. We have enjoyed some beautiful music from a harp player on Monday which sent us all in to a nice state of relaxation! On Wednesday we had a magnificent Ceilidh which was full of dancing, singing and fun fun fun! Check out the pictures below!

We have continued our war topic by having a lovely lesson all about using some of the things that we have grown in the class and also using some food we could get from animals! We made some magnificent egg and cress sandwiches!

This afternoon we have finished the term with a brilliant Eater bonnet parade which we have already had some magnificent sponsorship pledges from you all. Thank you for all your pledges and that money will all go to an amazing charity (The Sunshine Fund) which has given unbelievable support to the school over the years!

Thank you again for all your support throughout the term, enjoy your holiday and we look forward to seeing you all next term!

Phil, Sharon, Mandy and George.

Hello and welcome to our blog!

Today we have been having lots of fun down at the Ouseburn Farm. We have been learning about what life was like for children during World War II when they got evacuated to the country. We got some first-hand experience of life on the farm.

We started by looking at some of the animals and feeding some giant cows! This was lots of fun as the cows just didn’t stop eating as they were very hungry! We then had to carry out the job of looking after the sheep so they could go to the field. We made a human fence to stop them from escaping to the Cluny and then ushered them off into the field where we fed them.

After all the excitement of the sheep we needed to go and tend to the chickens who we named Burger, Nugget, Fillet, Goujon and Drumstick.

After all the commotion of the chickens we visited the pigs to feed them some of their pig food. We had to be extra careful when feeding the pigs because their food actually looks like a finger, so we had to throw the food in for them.

Now that all the animals were fed and tended to we needed to learn about growing food in the classroom. We planted a seed into some newspaper and brought them back to school to watch them grow.

We have had a lovely day and we have learnt lots of interesting things.

Thanks for reading.

Phil