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.Ā 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.
This week in Maths the children have been working on their PLP Outcomes and really coming along well with them. Noah has been doing fabulously identifying numbers to 12 and relating them to sets of objects, and Ruby has been adding numbers, to name a few bits of the fab work and learning in Maths! Everyone has been working really hard!
On Tuesday the children focused on some English PLP Outcomes. Aurora did especially well ordering the letters of her name and making attempts to copy a Capital ‘A’ to begin to write her name. Well done Aurora you are doing some great learning at the moment.
On Wednesday as part of our Jungle and Rainforests topic, the children went on a Safari! They used their binoculars they had made in Art and DT to hunt for some animals that live in the jungle and rainforest. They used their tick sheet to tick off what they found and the iPad to take photos of what they found. As proof of course!
This week the children were also very excited to share what they have been doing during their Arts Award Discover with Scott (our Arts Award Leader). Scott came around to look at the lovely books they have produced as part of the accreditation and said they have all passed and will receive their certificate from Trinity College London very soon! They are so proud of themselves!
The sun has been shining this week and the children were lucky enough to have been invited to spend some time in the lovely beach June’s Class had set up in their play area. They had fun playing in the sand, water and role play areas, as well as relaxing on the deck chairs and listening to music in the sun. Glorious! They even got to spend some time with their peers from John’s class. It’s so nice to be mixing again.
It has been another busy but fun week in Antonia’s class. Check in next week for more updates. Not long to go until the summer holidays! Hopefully the weather will stay as sunny as it has been this week!
Gain skills and confidence to communicate with children and adults with Special Education Needs Be able to use makaton sign and symbols to communicate. Be able to sign a nursery rhyme such as the family song.
This course is for beginners, by the end of the course you should be able to sign makaton stage 1.
Course dates 30/06/2022
14/07/2022
3 sessions for 2 hrs per session
Thu 18:00
Hearing Loss and Communication Support: Introduction to Makaton (C2527953) (wea.org.uk)
Please use the link to read more or sign up, or call 0300 303 3464 quoting the course number C2527953
We are really enjoying our new story. Jasper the cat and his best friend bird decide to plant a tiny bean. The best bit is that we allĀ have an important part to play e.g watering, raking, andĀ planting. We couldn’t believe our eyes when the tiny bean grew, grew and GREW into an enormous beanstalk. It inspired us so much we became busy little gardeners ourselves, so we decided to plant our very own sunflower seeds. We have even learnt a new sunflower song to help them grow. Watch this space to see what happens !!!!
It was amazing to have the hair shop back up and running!
The children were so happy, they enjoyed a soak in the foot spa, nails filed and polished, hand or foot massage, haircut or styled and had a practice styling the girls world heads themselves.
The next hair shop will be running Tuesday 5th July 2022.
