Happy Friday from Dave’s class!

25th March 2022Dave Robinson

Hi everyone, happy Friday!

This week in our class has flown by in the blink of an eye filled with lots of fun, friendship and sunshine! We’ve spent every spare minute this week outside enjoying this gorgeous weather, even moving some of our regular weekly sessions outdoors to make the most of the sun.

We had a coffee afternoon on Tuesday for our parents and everyone loved getting the chance to see our class taking part in our weekly jungle sensory story. We all enjoyed getting messy in the mud pool, and some parents even left with soil in their shoes (sorry again about that!)

We continued our theme of messy play going on Wednesday, when we were tasked with decorating a tree stump and making it fit for a fairy home! Everyone loved splashing around with paint and plenty of glitter, and at the end of things our log looked amazing.

We’ll keep our fingers crossed that this sunshine continues throughout the weekend, and we can’t wait for Monday to roll around to get to do this all again! – Dave and team 🙂

Kung Hei Fat Choi

14th February 2022Nadia Motie

Since coming back to school we have been exploring our new topic ‘Asia’. As part of our Topic we have been exploring everything related to Chinese New Year. This has included messy art, messy play, food exploration and music.

On Tuesday we had a whole school assembly to celebrate. We could smell all the lovely food cooking, listened to the music, dancing and watched our friends singing ‘Gung Hey Fat Choi’.

We have also enjoyed our messy play sensory sessions. We have explored different textures, boiled rice, dry rice, noodles, chopsticks and listening to Chinese music during spa and relaxation.

Our sensory story has allowed us to use all our senses to experience Chinese New Year. We listened to the music, watched the dragon dance and smell the incense burning, not forgetting the party cannon and lanterns to finish off!

Nadia and Team

Pass it on Parents Coffee Morning

1st February 2022Elaine Quinn

We were happy to have the ‘Skills for Life’ ladies back in school to host our parents coffee morning last Tuesday.

Another busy and productive coffee morning with the Pass it on Parents ladies – doing their fabulous stuff!

These relaxed coffee mornings are once a month in school and the next date is Tuesday 1st March. They run from 10-30am – 12pm and are held in the music studio in the Rebound Therapy Centre.

 

 

Pass it on Parents run support groups in many locations around the North East :

Our Families Advice and Support Team offers information, advice and support for families of disabled children in Newcastle. The team can help you with problems, and help you apply for funding. They can let you know about activities and services for your child and your family.

Pass it on Parents Newcastle is a parents group that supports families with children who have additional needs living in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. We are part of the Family Advice and Support Team based at Skills for People,

Our Pass it on Parents peer support team, reaches around 1600 family carers through its Facebook group. We strongly believe in the value of parent to parent support, and would like to help other parents by sharing experience and knowledge at one of our drop-in sessions or coffee mornings. Come along and find out some useful information that may help you or your family.

 

 

 

Hello Everyone!

28th January 2022Rachael Budden

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 played 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 11th birthday.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Weekly news

21st January 2022Elaine Quinn

This week in PE we have been practicing our aiming and throwing skills. We are getting really good at this and will continue to flourish through the term.

We have also been learning the time in class and we can confidently identify o’clock and we are now working on half past the hour.

We have also learnt some very interesting facts about space and we looked at subheadings and grouped the sentences to the correct sub headings.

We have also started back at Sir Charles Parsons for our weekly swim. This week we have been practicing putting our heads under the water to retrieve an item off the floor.

We hope you have a lovely weekend and stay safe.

 

Hello Everyone

21st January 2022Rachael Budden

As always, we’ve had such a busy week! We’ve all been really impressed with everyone’s behaviour and attitude to learning.

On Monday we linked out topic of space into our artwork. Everyone made brilliant collages of the planet earth, showing off their artistic skills by drawing, gluing and sticking tissue to represent the planet.

On Tuesday in Maths, we continued our work on time. Each week the children are demonstrating their understanding more and more. Some of the class were also lucky enough to go on a Maths hunt, finding sticks and stones to represent numbers. As always, we finished off our day with the best time of the week, swimming! Each and every pupil loves showing us their water skills, ducking underwater, retrieving items from the bottom of the pool, and finishing the lesson with free play always goes down well.

Wednesday was a very special day in class. We were learning all about the Scottish celebration, Burns Night. We learnt why and how Burns Night is celebrated, including what they eat and songs they sing. We made shortbread, a Scottish specialty, taking turns to mix, roll and cut the mixture. We spent the rest of the day in the Yurt, dancing and singing to traditional Scottish music, weaving tartan patterns and even playing Burns Night bingo.

Thursday was a day full of exercise. We had our PE session with Graeme, doing drills, football and Benchball. Everyone loved our session at kangaroo club, not only did they do great jumping, but also great spotting and turn taking. We did some role play to try and identify safe and unsafe strangers. The children had some great ideas of how to identify safe strangers.

Today we celebrated our half term achiever in assembly. Charlie L has made us all incredibly proud with his progress in reading, writing and Maths! We spent lunchtime in football club, practicing the skills we have been learning in PE and finished the day with choice time.

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend!