St Patrick’s Day!

20th March 2020Tracy Gooderick

Tuesday was St Patrick’s Day and Class 1A put on a St Patrick’s Day assembly with Scott’s class in Year 6. The children in both classes prepared the story of St Patrick to music and they also prepared songs and dances to perform to the school. It was an uplifting assembly for everyone and the staff band played some Irish music! The finale was definitely our performance of Riverdance and our special guest star Michael Flatley aka Max Headley! The video below is from one of our rehearsals because unfortunately everyone was so busy being happy during the performance we forgot to video it! It gives you an idea of the amazing performance though. Well done guys!

 

Our week!

16th March 2020Tracy Gooderick

Last week in Class 1a the children were busy working on their preparations for the St Patrick’s Day Assembly this week! They have been making costumes and learning songs and dances in collaboration with Scott’s class Year 6! More pictures from that to follow next week!
They still found time to work on their English and this week they have been concentrating on consolidating learning on the letter sounds they have worked on this term s,a,t and p! They also practiced their prewriting skills using ziplock bags filled with paint taped to tables. This was fun, and mess free!!!
In Maths this week they used spinners to find and identify Numicon plates buried in sand as well as Numicon Bingo and using play dough to make Numicon indentations.
After playtime every afternoon the children in 1a have been practicing being calm and building focus for the afternoon session in our Zen Den. They are learning to be quiet and ‘just be’ for a few minutes per day. You might like to try this at home! They practiced this on their trip to the library where they listened to some lovely stories.
Have a lovely week! Check back next week for our St Patrick’s Day fun!

Another busy week!

10th March 2020Tracy Gooderick

Hi Everyone!

Last week was another mega busy week in Class 1A! The children continued to work on their Picasso ‘Guitar’ creations and some of the children have been bringing their own guitars and stringed instruments into class to play along with our songs. They have also been painting this week as part of their ‘mark making and motor skills’ and using verrrrrrrrrrry long paintbrushes to paint sitting on their seats! It was very hard to keep the long brushes under control! But lots of fun!

It was World Book Day last week also and we had a class theme – The Wizard of Oz! Some of the children dressed up as lions, tin men and scarecrows. Nafisa came as Dorothy and I brought my dog Anabel to be Toto! The children enjoyed having a real life Toto in class for the day. We went to an amazing World Book assembly and read lots of stories.

The children also designed and made their own pizzas last week. It was interesting to find that they didn’t want the ingredients they had picked on their plans! To end the week it was Kian’s birthday and the children had a lovely celebration with him.

Have a lovely week!

‘THE’ morning that there was snow!

2nd March 2020Tracy Gooderick

Last week in Class 1a the children were very busy AFTER ‘THE’ morning which made everything crazy – The morning that there was snow!

A very hectic start to the week last week on Monday because IT SNOWED! Buses were late, staff held up and people stranded at home! After they eventually got into school on ‘THE morning that there was snow’ the children were very eager to start learning on their new topic in PSHCEe ‘People in School’. They turned Super Sleuths and went around school in groups armed with an iPad and took selfies of their groups with specific people they had to find prompted by photographs. They also turned Explorers later in the week in Science when they went out to explore the outdoor area with Binoculars and Magnifying glasses, explored magnets and different lights in the classroom. In Art they are working on their Picasso inspired collage and this week they have been collaging a real guitar inspired by Picasso’s Guitar paintings. They are working really hard on their cutting, tearing and gluing skills. In English they have been mark making and drawing lines using pencils and markers attached to toy vehicles. In Maths the children have been getting familiar with Numicon and started some learning on Shape.

It was of course Pancake Tuesday last week and the children made and flipped their own pancakes and learned a new pancake song!

This week I have included some pictures of our dinnertime as we are so proud of the way some of our children in 1a are improving their eating skills and eating their dinner alllllllll up!

This week we have World Book Day on Thursday this week so check back soon for an update on that!

Have a lovely week!

Getting to know you!

20th February 2020Tracy Gooderick

Hi everyone!

Although it is nearly the start of another half term at Hadrian in Class 1a I have just got up and running on our new class blog and can now finally share what the children have been up to.

As their new class teacher I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know all the children in the class and they have all got fantastic little personalities. I look forward to teaching them for the rest of the school year.

It’s hard to fit everything they have been learning into one Blog but over the last half term they have been working on the theme of ‘Monsters’ linked to the introduction of their new class reward and parent/teacher correspondence system. They have been learning the story ‘The Love Monster’ in English where they have been working on friendships, accepting eachother and themselves as well as differences and lots of fantastic cookery skills based around monster cakes! The Love Monster books also touch on ‘sharing’ another of our school rules, so they have been trying hard to work on that as well. In phonics they have covered letter sounds S,A and T. They have been outdoors looking for Monsters and making rock monsters. In Art they have made their own collage Love Monsters and in Music they have learned some new monster songs! They continued with a Van Gogh display they had started by adding some melted grated crayon pieces to it and some foil painting. In the afternoons they get messy and have had some Chinese New Year themed messy play with red Chinese spiced dough, noodles and rice. The children have been doing shop role play in Maths and sorting colours (red and yellow) based on Chinese New Year. They came full circle and ended the half term celebrating Valentine’s Day and ending with ‘The Love Monster’. I’m sure there is lots I have forgotten as it has been a very busy half term, but a very productive one! I would never be able to upload all the photos so here are a few of Class 1a’s lovely children.

We are looking forward to another exciting half term of learning!

Christmas is a time to celebrate together.

6th December 2019Clare Downey

Santa caught the bus this week to meet the children of Hadrian School.  Rumour has it, the big man heard how wonderful our children are and wanted to see for himself.  He brought one of his elves and Rudolph too.

 

On the very same day our class went out to enjoy our Christmas trip to Alnwick Garden.  We had a jam packed day…we began the day by training to be real North Pole elves for the morning. We made our own decorations for the tree and a special magic pouch of reindeer dust to put out on Christmas eve. Santa’s elf, Jingle Bells Jenny, asked us to help her find all of Santa’s presents to put under the tree. We were great at finding the missing gifts, and were so good that we were all put on the ‘good list’. This meant we all got to meet THE REAL SANTA!!  He was lovely and gave us all a present to open. After such a magical morning we decided to enjoy our packed lunch in the conservatory area as it was beautiful sunny weather.

After our lunch and a run around the fountains we all got to go in the real snow play area.  We had great fun making snow angels and filling buckets and wheel barrows with snow.  Before we got back on the bus to return back to school we sneaked in a turn on the Hurricane dodgem cars; every child had a turn sitting with an adult and steering their own cars. We love the fact that staff at Alnwick could help us include every child in class in the activities.  What a day!! We hope you like the pictures below…

Have a great weekend everyone!!

 

This little light of mine!

22nd November 2019Clare Downey

Hi everyone!

This week in class 1a we have started a new topic, Light and Dark! During our week we have been investigating all the different things we can do with light. We have had lots of fun in our light and dark exploration sessions, working out the cause and effect of switches and making shadows in lots of different shapes and sizes.

In conjuction with our light and dark theme, we have been making our own version of the Vincent Van Gough painting – A Starry Night! Using black, blue and yellow each child got the chance to let their creative side shine and paint their own sky! Kian was very proud of his stars!

 

Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

 

FIZZ ,WHIZZ, BANG AND POP………. we don’t want the fireworks to stop!!

8th November 2019Clare Downey

WHIZZ

FIZZ

BANG

POP

FIREWORKS FUN

Hello 1A  followers.  We began our second autumn term with a BANG………..QUITE literally.  This week we celebrated Bonfire Night.  Thank you to all of our lovey families for joining us on Tuesday night for a spectacular fireworks display at school.  They seem to get better and better every year.

We had our own celebration in class on Tuesday too.  We had a sparkler display  outside and we talked about keeping ourselves safe around Fireworks.  We had fun watching the beautiful lights and the patterns they made as our teachers danced round and round with them.

We also made super duper firework pictures with paint and glitter.  They sparkled like the real thing,  We have enjoyed an art filled week as we also made our individual poppies for next Monday’s remembrance assembly.  Every year we share a very emotional assembly, remembering those we’ve lost.  Families and friends of  staff or children who have passed away over the past 20 years at Hadrian are welcome to come a share a prayer on Monday at 2pm.

Lest We Forget

 

We look forward to seeing you all there.

Have a super weekend everyone.

 

 

Our hard work in 1A

18th October 2019Clare Downey

Happy Friday everyone.  We have all worked super hard in 1A this week.  Huge thanks again to our friends Pat and Doug for helping us during hydro this week.  We appreciate you supporting us every Friday afternoon.  Children get super excited to see Pat and Doug!

Max has been doing some fantistic communication this week using his super-duper eye gaze!  He even began to use it during reading sessions this week! Well done Max.

 

 

Max using his eye gaze.

We’ve all worked hard on our pre-writing skills this week, mark making outside using water and paint brushes.  Lots of lovely skills, following lines and making patterns.

We also finished our 3 little pigs topic with a wolf hunt.  We looked around our school’s wonderful outdoors to find the big bad wolf. It was thristy work so we sat outside and drank  yummy hot chocolate with our friends.

We’re going on a wolf hunt

We’re gonna catch a big one

What a beautiful day

We’re not scared!

Have a lovely weekend.

 

Harvest Festival week has been a musical one…….

4th October 2019Clare Downey

We cracked our own eggs

eeeewwwww it is gooey

Karl loved cracking his egg to see what was inside

Kian was excited to crack his egg

well done Nafisa

It was Harvest Festival week at Hadrian.  We celebrated in our special assembly on Wednesday.  Every class was given a bread baking task this week to show in assembly.  We loved making our 3 little pigs sticky brioche buns.  The recipe allowed every child in class to crack their own egg!  We had fun kneading our bread and watching as it rose to double the size!  Everyone presented their bakes in assembly to our judges, Mrs Stokle and Mr Todd.  They had the job of tasting everyone’s bakes and choosing the winning class.  Our friends in Coralie’s class won the bread ‘bake off’ this year and took home the notorious winning tea towel to class.  Their Italian loaf looked amazing.

We also had fun in class this week with our music therapists, Afra and Tom.  Our children were so engaged in playing instruments and singing.  Afra tuned into each child, responding to vocalisations and repeating sounds and tempos using her guitar.   1A are doing very well, stopping and starting at appropriate points now.  This is great progress for week 4 of music therapy.

Finally, we rounded off the week with a visit from my 7 month old puppy, Wally the Sprollie.  He was such a hit in class we only managed to grab a couple of photos!  Everyone took turns to either hold the leash, have a stroke or feed him a biscuit, depending how confident they felt with him.  It was such a treat to end a hard working week for our children in 1A!

Happy Friday everyone!