Newcastle families!
The Family Advice and Support Team have been working hard behind the scenes with the Holiday Activity Fund team (HAF) and we have now arranged the below activities which will be free to families over the summer. The session are aimed at children 4-18 who would struggle to access the mainstream HAF activities (and their families). Please contact the centres directly on the phone numbers and emails provided to book a slot.
Places are limited but there will be a waiting list for slots too so if you do have a slot and can’t make it then please let the centre know so another family can make use of the session.
Well well well… what a wonderful year it has been! We cannot believe how fast it has gone and how much fun we have all had. We are so incredibly proud of all the children and how much they have matured into wonderful young adults this year.
We have had so many fun memories this year together and lots of fun trips. We have made some lovely friends , and will cherish their friendship forever. Please remember that once part of our Hadrian Family, always a part of Hadrian Family and please please please know you are all welcome back to visit any time.
Have a wonderful summer and know that we all miss you all very much
There is lots of offers around to help cut the cost of eating out and to have fun with children over the summer break!
This week in Antonia’s class we have been so busy getting ready for the end of year and finishing off work! There is so much to do in the last few weeks of term but we are happy to say ‘It’s done!’ and next week we can all relax and have a last week of fun with the children. Our class is splitting up in September so we wanted to spend as much time as possible together having a great time next week. We have some amazing activities planned to do as a class group. We are nearly at the end of the year and hope the sun will come back out for our last week together!
This week we were lucky enough to take part in the school carnival on Tuesday. As you know in previous weeks the children have made banners and masks and on Tuesday they paraded around carnival style with these to a fabulous steel band. There was music and dancing and everyone had an amazing time. With that and all our finishing work off we barely had time to make some delicious banana muffins! But we managed. Just!
Have a lovely weekend!
We had a fantastic busy day in the hair shop on Tuesday.
We made it a special treat with snacks and sweets for our year 6 children who are moving to their new schools in September. Most of these children have been regulars since the hair shop began, it has been lovely to watch them grow and mature. They will be a big miss at Hadrian, but we wish them lots of luck in their next chapter!
We had some new children in the salon this term who all really enjoyed the experience.
They were treat to manicures, pedicures, a soak in the foot spa, hand and foot massages as well as a haircut.
We also got very creative with the ‘Girls World Heads’ and each others hair which was great fun.
The old unloved instruments in our music cupboard have been getting a good play this week in our class. As always we love exploring instruments and making music in Antonia’s class but this week the children got to go down to the Music Studio and explore some of the bigger instruments. They played the drums, violin, guitars and even an electric mandolin! We forgot we had that in the back of the dusty old cupboard! There were so many weird and wonderful sound to explore and the children really did enjoy it. We have some budding musicians in our class.
The children also took a trip out this week to visit Newcastle Central Mosque and meet Brother Kareem. The Mosque was so welcoming and our talk from Brother Kareem was so interesting. The children got to dress up and hear all about how Muslims pray. We were very interested to explore the traditional toothbrush or ‘Miswak’ made from the twigs of the Salvadora persica tree, also known as the arak tree or the peelu tree. It had a very strong smell and some of the children were brave enough to brush their teeth with it! They had a lovely time and we would like to thank Brother Kareem for such an interesting lesson while we were there!
This week the children made some lovely Thank You cards for some of the people that help us out on a regular basis. We are very lucky to have so much support from lots of kind people who give their money and time to us! The children explored using marbles and paint to create ‘Jackson Pollock’ style pieces to go on the front of the cards. It was lots of fun!
We have also been making some lovely carnival masks for our School Carnival in July. The children used some lovely colourful feathers and jewels to decorate them.
All in all another very busy and fun week in Antonia’s Class with lots of new things to explore!
See you next week for another exciting update – its only going to get busier coming up to the end of the school year!
Have a lovely weekend.
Some of us were lucky enough to go and see a special interactive and sensory outdoor production of Grubbin’s Wood by TimbaDash. We had lots of fun interacting with the team and exploring different materials as well as using our sense of smell.
Well you can imagine the fun we had on Wednesday afternoon when we got the inflatables and paddling pools out! We all got into our swimming costumes and splashed, poured, sprayed and sunbathed out on our balcony. We got wet from head to toe and had the best time it certainly linked in with our seaside topic.
