This week has been such a busy, fun filled week. Along with lots of great work and behaviour, we have also had a birthday celebration!

We started of the week recapping telling time in Maths. Many of the children now have a good understanding of reading a digital clock to the o’clock and half past which is great!  We continued our learning into our topic of space. We learnt that the earth is split into continents (with the help of a very catchy song) and our country is in Europe. The children could tell us lots of good facts and had a lot of great questions too.

In PE we have continued our work with Graeme on dodgeball and football. Everyone’s learning great skills such as dodging and dribbling. Within these sessions, everyone is showing us great teamwork and a positive attitude which is brilliant! We get to practice our skills on our Friday lunchtime when we have our football session with Graeme and Ellen’s class.

We have also continued our work on strangers. Everyone is showing a great understanding of ‘safe strangers’, knowing who is best to approach when they need help in the absence of any familiar adults. We also learnt how best to react if we are approached by a stranger. To solidify our learning, we re-enacted different scenarios where strangers approached the child and how the child should act. We definitely have some budding actors in the class and we all had such fun.

Friday has been spent celebrating pupil achievements in our second half term achievers assembly. After playtime and football, we had the best choice time yet! Every single child received all of their ticks for a full week. We are so proud of the great behaviour each and every child is demonstrating. Finally, to finish off the week we had a party to celebrate Rosie’s birthday! We had party games such as pass the parcel, along with party food and of course a beautiful cake (thank you Rosie’s family!). We hope she has a lovely day tomorrow for her 11^th birthday.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

What a busy week we’ve had! Along with lots of hard work and great concentration from the children, we’ve had lots of fun activities and even a party!

In science this week we continued with our topic, space. We were learning all about planet Earth, deciding what temperature counties were based on their proximity to the equator. We had some great ideas and children showed good understanding, explaining how the counties close to the line were hot and the ones further away were cold.

Linking our topic to our English, we used what we had learnt in our science lesson to create fact files. We have been working on the differences between fiction and non-fiction books. While looking through books, the children could tell us that fiction books tell a story that’s not real, whereas non-fiction are full of facts and real information. In math’s we have focused on telling the time. The children managed to explain how they knew it was o’clock and half past, with some children working on quarter past and quarter too.

We were able to have our first swimming session of the year. Since we haven’t managed to visit Sir Charles Parsons’ pool in a while, we had a free session with the pool toys and floaties which everyone loved!

In our new PE sessions with Graeme, we learnt to duck, dive, and dodge the ball, followed by our kangaroo club session after lunch. Everyone worked up a real sweat. We finished off our day learning all about safer strangers, identifying who we can reach out to for help when there’s no familiar adults around.

Friday has been a great day for everyone! We started with assembly and circle time. We had football after lunch, followed by our favourite time of the week – choice time. This choice time was extra special as we celebrated Kaleb’s birthday and enjoyed his birthday cake as a treat. Our Rosie got a certificate for her enthusiasm in PSHE. We hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

See you next week!

Well that’s our first (very short) week of the new term complete! Everyone has settled back in great and we’re so happy to see all the children happy and excited to learn.

On our first day back, we started the morning with Sing School. We learnt some new songs and the sing teacher was very impressed with not only their singing, but their signing as well! Everyone got a chance to sit and tell the class all about their Christmas break, it sounds like you all had such fun. We finished of the day practicing our one armed robots and ladder letters in handwriting. We’re all impressed with how much effort each child put into their handwriting.

Yesterday we introduced our new science topic, space. We were blown away with how much knowledge the children already had about the topic. They told us what the largest known star is called, what a supernova is, and all about the Milky Way! They also had great ideas for what else they would like to learn about. We spoke about who are strangers and who are safe strangers. The children had some ideas on who are safe strangers and how to keep safe.

Today was the first assembly of the term, where Charlie Logan received the certificate for his great progress and enthusiasm in reading. All the staff have been really impressed with the improvement he has made. We were lucky enough to have another football session over lunchtime where we practiced skills such as dribbling, throwing and catching. We finished the day with the children’s favourite time of the week, choice time!

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and are ready for a full week of learning next week!

This week has been packed full of festivities at Hadrian! All the children had such a fun time participating in all our Christmas activities.

We began the week with the pantomime coming into school and performing ‘Dick Whittington’ which kept everyone engaged. We all enjoyed a lovely Christmas lunch and the whole school came together for our outdoor Christmas carol service. Year 6 did an amazing job performing our favourite carols on the mic for the rest of the school.

On Wednesday we had our Christmas party. Everyone looked fab in their party wear and joined in with the games, showing us their best dance moves. We all got such a surprise when we heard the jingle bells ring and Santa joined the party!

Thursday was Hadrian’s ‘National Elf Day’ and we were delighted with everyone’s kind donations, raising a fantastic amount to go towards Hadrian’s new hydro pool. The children had such fun doing the elf trail around school, finishing the day working their elf socks off in our sponsored elf dance/workout.

To round up the week, our class received their medals for their excellent engagement and participation in football throughout the term. Graham was so impressed with the effort each child has put into the sessions and highlighted just how polite each child was when receiving their medals. This afternoon we all got to enjoy watching the Christmas nativity, followed by an assembly to say our final goodbyes to our lovely Deputy Head, Mrs Stokle.

We would like to wish all of our children and their families a huge Merry Christmas and can’t wait to see you all in the New Year!

It seems like it’s already Christmas in our class. The children have been extremely excited all through the week participating in different Christmas activities.

We began our week with a trip to the Tyneside Cinema where we watched ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’. Everyone loved their popcorn with the movie, but they loved their McDonalds lunch more!

Lots of you joined us for our coffee and carols morning and the children were very happy to see you all. Mr. Rollings the Head teacher and Mrs. Stokle the deputy head, were very impressed with the beautiful singing and signing from our children.

We had a visitor from Seven Stories who entertained our children with lovely stories and activities. The children were completely engaged and had lots of fun with Lawrence.

Today they came dressed up in their Christmas Jumpers and had an amazing session with Graham playing football, making Christmas cards and colouring. They have worked hard with their reading and writing and some also worked hard with their English and Maths. Our Sofia and Charlie got a medal for their hard work.

It’s the much awaited first week in December and the festive season around the school and the class has got all our children super-duper excited. We have put our Christmas tree up and the classroom has been decorated. We have planned Christmas activities for the coming weeks and are looking forward to them especially the next week, as we are going to the cinemas and meeting all of you for the coffee and carols morning. The most exciting bit was when Santa visited us and gave us all a little treat. We had a special advent assembly in the school hall. The whole school gathered for the very first time to witness the lights coming on the Christmas tree. Mrs. Stokle lit the first advent candle and we put the children helped put the crib together

We could not do much work this week due to lack of time however we still managed to do writing practice, reading, math’s and Humanities. Some of our children have been really great at writing the letters of the alphabet and some have even learnt how to write their second names. In Maths most of our children are getting more and more confident working on number bonds right up to 20.

They have been enjoying the new PE session and are very enthusiastic to take part in every activity doing push ups. Squats, used bicep curls and step ups. We did not have swimming but an extra session of Rebound this week and a great session of football. Our Lillie was the Half Term Achiever and she has done some amazing work all through this term. We are so proud of her!!

Hope you all have a great weekend!!

This week we have been preparing for the coffee and carol morning. All our children are working hard trying to learn the signs and the songs for the special morning. We spend a day at the Yurt and the music shack making invitation cards to take home.  We have also had an amazing session in swimming with many children trying their best to learn new tricks with Tracy. We missed our Kangaroo club but had an amazing time playing football with Graham.

Other than the exciting things above we did some hard work doing Maths, English and Science. Some did number bonds and some used challenge cards to do inverse operations. In science we all took part in a science experiment to learn the technique of separating the insoluble substances using a filter paper. In English we read new poems and tried to discuss why some of us liked them and why some of us did not really enjoy them. It was great listening to some of the feelings the children discussed in their groups.

We had an exciting session on physical training in our PE lesson. We did push ups. Squats, used bicep curls and did some step ups. All were excited to participate and enjoyed all the exercises.

Friday was a very exciting day for our Sophia. She celebrated her 11^th birthday. We played games, danced along and ate some cake..

Hope you had a lovely weekend.

We have been celebrating anti-bullying week. In PSHE we spoke about what qualities make a good and bad friend. We thought about what we like about our friends, and made friendship cards and bracelets to thank them for being such good friends!

Since we were unable to go to Sir Charles Parsons School for swimming, we got the chance to go in our very own hydro pool! Everyone loved how warm and relaxing it was, especially when the sensory lights were turned on.

On Thursday we conducted a science experiment to discover what substances will dissolve in water. Everyone made their predictions of which substances they thought would dissolve when mixed with water and we took turns stirring the substances to see what would happen. We were surprised with some of the results (who knew flour didn’t dissolve in water?!).

Finally, we finished off the week with Children in Need Day. All of us got into the spirit, coming dressed in our best Pudsey outfits and donating to a wonderful charity.

This week we took part in different Maths relating to shape, size and measures to celebrate Maths Week. We therefore decided to explore Maths outdoor, We collected twigs, leaves and stones and grouped them into different shapes and sizes. We compared their different shapes and sizes and discussed which ones were bigger than the others. We created different shapes and then went on a walk around the school to look for 2D and 3D shapes.