Pass It On Parents

3rd December 2021Elaine Quinn

It was wonderful to have parents back in school for the ‘Pass it on Parents’ coffee morning, it has been such a long time since we could all be together. The coffee mornings run monthly and all parents are welcome; its a great place for a catch up, coffee, support and great advice.

The team provides information and advice on a range of issues, from helping you to navigate your way around the Local Offer, connecting you with other services, to offering advice on a range of specific issues such as transport, holidays, activities and planning for adulthood.

We can offer practical information and advice, appropriate to individual circumstances and we work across all agencies such as education, social care, health, benefits, leisure and voluntary services.

We can support you in meetings in school and help with Parental Views in the Education Health & Care Plan Assessment process. Our Information Advice and Guidance service will work with you to see if you need more in depth support such as supporting you at Early Help meetings.

Christmas has began !

3rd December 2021Elaine Quinn

This week we kickstarted the week in the Yurt, we had a lovely party in there for Amna’s birthday and we even got to eat our dinners in there too. We also had a special visit from a very important man. We all got lovely chocolates to take home from Santa. How lucky are we !!

On Tuesday we had our weekly baking session. This week we made snowflake shortbread biscuits! They were so tasty and we had so much fun making them !

As it’s now December we have started our advent calendar and we will each get a turn at getting a chocolate and picking a story each morning. We also have a very cheeky elf in our class that likes to hiding different places every morning. One morning we even found him eating all our biscuits out on the tin. What a naughty elf !!

On Thursday we went for our weekly Horse riding lessons. All the horses were dressed all festive and we learnt some new tricks on our horses! We are all very excited to dress up as Elves on the 16th for our sponsored elf ride.

That’s all for this week, we hope you have a lovely weekend and stay safe.

Christmas is coming……

3rd December 2021Loveday Fisk

This week we began our Hadrian School countdown to Christmas in style this week.

Monday and Tuesday we began the week with our annual class Christmas trip.  Due to adverse weather over the weekend, we decided to stay nearer school and visit Jesmond Dene.  We had a lovely 2 days out. Children played in the park and enjoyed a walk before having a packed lunch on the warm bus.  We returned to school in the afternoon just in time for snack.

Children came into class on Wednesday December 1st to a magical array of Christmas lights.  Our school hall, reception area and classroom looked very festive.  School always looks magical at this time of year.  We spent the first part of the morning in our Advent assembly introducing the Christmas story of baby Jesus being born.  Children from each class added characters to our nativity scene to build a picture of the manger in Bethlehem.  We lit the first advent candle, which signified ‘hope’.  It was a very moving assembly, in which we sang and signed carols.  We shared a small taste of this on our Friends of Hadrian Facebook page.  Here is the link…….

https://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/category/Community/The-Friends-of-Hadrian-School-433686086649174/

Huge thanks to our friends from Greggs the bakers for their kind donations to school. We are thankful for the continuous generosity for our children all year around.

We also began making baubles to send home to decorate our trees in sensory art.  We had so much fun with the jewels, glitter and sticky back plastic.  I am sure this explains many glittery children going home!  We do change clothes to avoid too much mess but it does seem to sneak everywhere!  Apologies. I am sure the children’s handmade crafts will be worth it, I am sure!

Well done to our Basheer for being our class half term achiever.  Our lovely little boy has made lots of progress in his time with us.  His consistent communication and independence around school has astounded us.  Well done Bash.  Your family must be so proud, as we are!

Active week for Reception/Year 1

26th November 2021June Ball

This week has been so active for our children, we’ve been in the Hydro Pool for the first in a while. Each and every child really enjoyed it. We thought a few might be quite nervous but they were all a delight, many more weeks to look forward to and build more confidence. Lots more Rebound was enjoyed as well!

This week has been so active for our children, we’ve been in the Hydro Pool for the first in a while. Each and every child really enjoyed it. We thought a few might be quite nervous but they were all a delight, many more weeks to look forward to and build more confidence. Lots more Rebound was enjoyed as well!

 

All of the Lights

5th November 2021Marc Teasdale

Welcome back everyone! After a lovely relaxing week off we’ve jumped right back into school mode with lots of hard work and fun this week. We got right into the Bonfire Night spirit with some firework themed artwork. We used a variety of colours to create our own firework displays. Check them out below!

We loved our school firework display – we all had a great time, singing Bonfire themed favourites and watching the amazing colours unfurl above our heads. Check it out below:

We also put our amazing acting skills to the test in our short film where we roleplayed the story of Diwali. You can check this out here!

Happy Diwali and have fun and safe Bonfire Night!

Marc

 

 

A trip to Grubbings Wood

5th November 2021Coralie Forbes

This week we had the pleasure of taking part in the Theatre production from Timberdash. The children were taken into Grubbings Wood by Fox and Mole for a full sensory experience. We met Mr Grubbings who had gone missing from the woods,thankfully we were able to help him feel safe to come back home. We experienced mud, leaves, water and fruits by feeling them with our fingers and on our skin. We enjoyed smelling many aromas and listened to the sounds of animals, birds, rain and wind. We sang songs with Fox, Mole and Mr Grubbings. It was a fun time had by all and we are looking forward to the next production.

 

Grubbings wood Video

 

 

Harvest and Halloween fun !

22nd October 2021Coralie Forbes

We enjoyed a lovely afternoon in the yurt.Off we set all wrapped up, warm and cozy carrying our baskets.On the way we found acorns, pine cones and crunchy leaves. Once we arrived at the yurt we began to explore – long cold carrots, stringy rhubarb , hard conkers and dusty potatoes.Whilst exploring we sang some harvest songs, “one potato, two potato was our favourite !

This week we have had lots of Halloween fun! We all got messy painting pumpkins to hang on our beautiful Halloween tree,  which is displayed at the door to our classroom. We enjoyed lots of spider rhymes as well as exploring sticky jelly and slimey spaghettti. We hope you enjoy the pictures!

 

Spooky goings on in school….

22nd October 2021Loveday Fisk

Happy Halloween everyone.  We celebrated in class early this week anticipating our half term Halloween.  Children and staff all had spooky fun this week.  We explored pumpkins, decorated our classroom doors, squished eyeballs in red jelly and went on an outdoor adventure hunting for spooky crafts around school.

Today we ended the festivities in a zoom assembly.  we were all invited to parade the corridors in a special socially distanced conga to show off our outfits.  Here are some photos of our fun……

Have a lovely half term everyone.  Stay safe.  See you all again on Monday 1st November.