It has been a fun week, this week, with both Halloween and Bonfire Night!
The children found out about why we celebrate both these special days and what traditions are popular. They also found out about firework safety. Today, the children have made firework paintings and developed their cutting skills when making a bonfire picture. They have made a candy covered apple and then watched the fireworks on the school field.

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We have worked so hard this week! We painted Christmas pictures for the Christmas Card competition. We learned about the Pharaoh called Tutankhamun and the famous archeologist Howard Carter. We then painted pharaoh head dresses for our class display. In maths, we practised sharing amounts in half by feeding two hungry monsters and we measured some crayons using a ruler. We baked chocolate buns in our cooking session. Fabien and Diana both got medals in assembly this week for being so brave in the swimming pool, letting go of the sides and walking around the pool holding an adult’s hands.

Shirley and the Team

This week, we started a new Roald Dahl story called The Twits. We practised our language skills by answering questions using full sentences about a beach scene. In maths, we have been learning about halves and quarters. In science, we carried out an experiment with magnets, finding out which items were attracted to magnets or not attracted. We enjoyed the flapjacks we made in cooking for our afternoon snack. We also started our term’s topic about the Ancient Egyptians and created a silhouette painting of the pyramids.

This weeks highlights include playing football with Graham and swimming at Charles Parsons for the first time. The children really enjoyed both.
We made jam tarts for cooking which were delicious!
Our famous author this term is Roald Dahl so we listened to the story of the Enormous Crocodile, made a paper crocodile and painted the Enormous Crocodile. We were able to sequence the story into the crocodile’s ‘secret plans and clever tricks’.

This week we have continued with our Topic of Transport. Earlier on in the week the children went to explore Vikki’s car and learn the names of all the different parts of the car such as bonnet, door, boot and wheels. All the children blew us away with all their knowledge of cars and it opened up a lovely conversation about where we have been in our cars at home. We have been encouraging the children to use full sentences and ask each other about their weekend and nights at home to build upon their language skills.

As always we have been continuing on with our Maths and number work building upon our skills we have already ready learnt. We have all been trying our best to recognise numerals up to 10 and count reliably up to 5. Some of our children have even gone beyond that and are now doing adding, subtracting and multiplying, everyone has been doing some fantastic work.

We have also been continuing with our reading and we would like to encourage all parents and carer’s to read with their children at home, this makes a huge difference to our children’s reading experience. Everyone has come on so much this year with their reading and we are beyond proud.

We have also began planting in Science and the children planted cress and sunflower seeds yesterday so watch this space for how big the sunflowers grow – we are expecting them to grow as tall as school!

Unfortunately Louise left our class just before Easter to become our school Rebound coordinator and we wish her well with her new venture. In return Yvonne who has been our fantastic lunch time assistant and volunteer since September was given the Support assistant role within our class and has become an asset to our team.

A huge congratulations and well done to our lovely Nell who is our Half term achiever for her excellent work and effort this term. Nell has made tremendous progress in her reading, Maths and social skills and

has grown in confidence and has made strong relationships with her peers and familiar adults in class. Nell always tries her best with her learning. We are so proud of her and is a joy to have in class!

Just a quick reminder that children are off school on the 20^th of May as it is our Teacher training day at school but children will be back to school on the 23^rd of May for our last week before the half term. We will also be celebrating Her Majesty the Queen’s 70^th year on the throne on Monday the 6^th of June, our first Monday back to school after the holiday and children will be encouraged to dress up in royal clothing – more information to follow.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend

Shirley, Vikki, Robina, Lisa and Yvonne.

Welcome back, we hope you all have a fabulous break – we were so lucky with the weather! We have hit the ground running since being back at school and have begun our new Topic – Transport. We have had such a busy week back at school this week but we had a very special treat on Thursday when we were invited to Nunsmoor Fun Fair.

The children all had a fabulous day and got to access all of the rides totally free of charge! We were zooming around on the waltzers and spinning around on the swings. Everyone was so well behaved and the smiles on everyone’s faces were priceless.

We are off for the bank holiday on Monday so no school until Tuesday and just to remind you all children are off school on the 20^th of May for a Teacher training day.

Have a lovely weekend

Shirley and the Team

This week we started off with a fabulous trip to Northumberland zoo. We had the chance to explore a mini beast workshop and the children got to experience some creepy crawlies from different parts of the world. We then had the opportunity to have an explore at the different birds of prey, learning that owls have different eye colour’s depending on when they hunt their pray. We then had free range of the zoo and we saw lots of different animals, including artic foxes, snow leopards, lemurs, a lynx, meerkat’s and lots of different farm animals. We had a fabulous day and all the children were exceptionally behaved.

Apart from our trip we have had a fun filled Easter week. We have coloured our own Easter eggs and created our own chicks as well as having lots of fun with our very own real life chicks – unfortunately we had to say goodbye to them today as they have now returned to their farm but we have had so much fun with them watching as they grew from tiny babies.

We also enjoyed welcoming all of our Mammies, Grandma’s and carers into school on Wednesday, we were all very excited to see you all and show you all the hard work we have been doing this past term and we had a full school sing along to join in with too – we do love a good dance in this class.

Today we had an assembly and we all got a certificate for being super at horse riding and very polite, we are all super proud of every single one of our amazing children at how polite and well-mannered they are outside of school – a true representation of the Hadrian School spirit. We also said goodbye to Scott Ball today who has been at Hadrian for 10 years, he is leaving us to start a new career in the farming industry and we all wish him well in his new venture.

We have had such a busy half term here in class and all the children are so deserving of a restful two weeks ready to kick start our summer term, starting with a trip to Nunsmoor fair on Thursday the 28^th of April.

From Shirley, Vikki, Lisa and Robina we all wish you a very Happy Easter and Happy Ramdan and we hope you have a lovely, safe and relaxing holiday and we will see you bright and early on Monday the 25^th of April.

Celebrations are well and truly under way ready for Easter and this week we have had some special guests join our class in the shape of an egg. On Monday ten Chicken eggs were delivered from Living Eggs and we had the very special task of keeping them warm in the incubator ready for them to hatch and on Wednesday we were very lucky to come into school to five eggs hatched and running around the incubator. Then during our sing school session we managed to catch a further two hatching out of their eggs – it was so special to watch and the children were all very excited.

We now have ten very lovely and very healthy chicks that we have been able to hold and watch run around both in their pen and on our carpet and fortunately we have them until next Friday so we can watch them grow and mature.

As well as watching our chicks, this week we have been carrying on with our Oxford Reading Tree words and reading books and we have been learning the Name, sound and picture of our phonics letters S, A, T, P, I, N. We have also been sequencing stories through picture, refining our cutting and sticking skills and learning all about our different feelings in PSHE.

Next week we have another very busy week in the run up to the Easter holidays. On Monday the 4^th of April we are out all day on our trip to Northumberland Zoo which we are very excited about. Could we please ask that all children come into school appropriately dressed for the zoo, we have no control over the weather so we are expecting anything from snow to red hot sunshine (we are hoping for the latter!)

On Wednesday 6^th we have our coffee afternoon from 1.30 and we are looking forward to meeting and greeting everyone’s parents and showing off all the work we have been doing in class and then on Friday the 8^th we break up for the Easter Holidays and return to school on Monday the 25^th of April.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Shirley and the Team

Another fun week has passed, these weeks are certainly flying by.

This week has been a quieter week in class, so we started our week off with some fun number work and were practicing recognising numbers 1-5. We are also becoming expert rhymers as we have been doing lots of work recently around words that rhyme and have been practicing our high frequency and CVC words and reading our books daily with an adult and I have to say we are doing amazingly well with recognising Kipper, Biff, Chip, I, the and so many more.

We have carried on this week with our experiments in Science and have been making our own bubbles and wands using different materials, such as a coat hanger, sock and cup. Unfortunately our coat hanger bubble wand and cup trumpet was not the biggest success and we blew and blew but the bubbles kept popping. But, fear not – thankfully our sock snake bubbles were a roaring success and we had lots of fun creating bubble snakes that we put on our friends heads and luckily Shirley was on the job and had some bubble wands for us to play and have lots of fun with.

As always we have enjoyed another fabulous horse riding session and we got to go outside on the horses and look for the chickens and the sheep – yay for the better weather!

We have celebrated Red Nose Day in class today and I have to say we have had some amazing Super Hero’s in class today. We have also enjoyed a fantastic assembly to celebrate the success of our friends around school in our Half Term Achiever assembly.

Have a lovely weekend,

Shirley, Vikki , Louise, Robina and Lisa