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World Book Day was Thursday 4th March and we celebrated reading books all day in school!
All of the children liked our costumes, we were ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ .
The whole school made a fabulous effort with getting dressed up. We read our story when the children came in then we had a whole class parade down the catwalk in our costumes.
The fun carried on into the afternoon we told the story of the Gruffalo, we did story yoga and then went on a Gruffalo hunt around school looking for some of the animals from the book then got a quick play with with our favorite animal in school Alfie!
Then it was our wonderful World Book Day Assembly – it was lovely to see all our friends. Our favorite part of assembly was a hilarious story reading session with a twist ‘The Masked Storyteller’ this caused a great deal of laughter, a lot of guesswork.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, stay safe.
What a busy first week back. We are particularly delighted that we have James and Diana back with us. They both received a Weekly Achiever’s certificate for settling back into school so well.
We have been exploring the role of a Police Officer as part of our Humanities work. James received a medal for his excellent Police work.
Police Officer Thompson
We also set up two shops (Morrisons and Asda) We wrote shopping lists in our English lesson and then took our money to buy items.(we are learning all about money in Maths)
In Science we are learning all about healthy eating. We each made a plate of healthy and unhealthy foods. After we had made our plates we chose healthy foods to eat at snack time.
We continue to work on our Art pieces exploring the Four Seasons. We added some wonderful bits to our Summer piece. We have now taken down Winter from outside our door and we have replaced it with our Spring one. When the display is complete we will take a photograph of it to show you. We have a great plan for the 4 pieces which we will share with you soon.
We’re looking forward to World Book Day/Week next week.
Year 3 Team.
Big welcome to Mandy who has joined our class this week.
We began introducing our ‘War’ topic this week.
We have explored artefacts in the yurt on Monday, we looked at a gas mask, old photos from the war time of children all being evacuated, the damage left after our cities were bombed. The children have been very interested and have been asking some very good questions such as “why are the children going on the train without their mummy’s and daddy’s”.
We have also been learning Makaton signs relating to our topic we have been practicing old, new, airplane, train, children and broken.
We spent the afternoon in the yurt making some treats for the birds, we added seeds, peanuts and mealworms we stirred in some melted lard to make it stick together then put it into cups and added string to hang them from the trees. We hung them all around the school grounds on Tuesday and we keep checking to see if they have been eaten.
We had great fun den building in class and are going to be using our skills outdoors next week.
Our class air raid shelter is finished now and proving a bit hit with the children.
Have a wonderful weekend, stay safe.
This week in our class the children have been working hard on their shape recognition and starting to match shape patterns. Max has been learning all about new shapes and their properties. Zack has been matching patterns and Emma, Nelson and Bilal have been staring to match shapes and colours. They have also been working on their Artist Bridget Riley and created their own optical illusions for our class display.
The highlight of the week was definitely our Sensory Fun session where the children got themselves covered in Slime and Jelli Bath! They thoroughly enjoyed the squidgey jelli bath and slippy slime. Some of them even had a slime swim! Yuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
World Book Day next Thursday – we can’t wait!
Well, it is the end of Spring 1 half term already. We all got here safely and soundly. What a half term it has been. The country is in lockdown, we have snow on the ground. The days are getting longer and we are all feeling very proud of how resilient our children have been through tough times. A huge thanks to everyone in school for making our school a safe and happy place to be. Thanks to SLT, to admin staff, to kitchen staff, our lovely caretaker and site manager, to teachers and teaching staff, to our cleaning team, our bus escorts, our fantastic supportive parents and of course our amazing children who are the reason our Hadrian world goes around. Special thanks to our lovely teacher Phil for leading our zoom assembly’s and singing sessions. He has kept us all entertained this half term with his singing, guitar playing, and funny characters. Here is a snippet of another busy couple of weeks at school.
This week we celebrated a special birthday in class. When any of our adults celebrate a birthday we say it is a special one when it ends in a zero;0) Children and staff enjoyed a party in class, a fun exploration session and lots of music and singing. In unusual times we couldn’t invite friends into class to celebrate so we made a video from every class in school wishing Loveday a happy birthday in their own ways. Very creative work from everyone……Loveday shed a little tear. Big thanks to Phil and Ellen’s class for safely serenading Loveday from outside. They all sang happy birthday for Loveday to enjoy through the window.
Music is a favourite amongst all of our children! Our Daniel and Leen enjoyed music therapy sessions this week with our Music Therapist, Bev. They had fun initiating music, responding to fast and slow tempo and enjoying some wonderful intensive interaction using voices and instruments.
During half term we share Shrove Tuesday and in true Hadrian tradition we celebrated a week early by making and tasting our own in class. Children explored using their hands, their mouths and tools such as whisks and spoons. We cooked them in class so everyone could enjoy the delicious smell and we had a special pancake snack with chocolate spread and golden syrup. Yummy.
Watch out in children’s bags this week for special cards coming home. We celebrated LLEERRVVEE this week for Valentine’s Day this Sunday. Children made cards with their own hands for people at home. We also made special cards for our friends who are not able to join us in class during lockdown. Watch out for postman Pat, Jacob and Yahya! He might just have something for your from your class friends. We miss you guys.
We ended the half term on a high note today. The whole school enjoyed an outdoor assembly to enjoy a singing session together, safely distanced outdoors. It was wonderful to see everyone having fun. These are times we miss at Hadrian. We all miss our whole school gatherings. Mr Rollings has competition with some of our older children leading singing!! Joe sang beautifully using the microphone in front of the whole school. We kept warm with blankets and cuddles in our bubbles while we sang and danced in the snow.
This week we celebrated our Daniel in our weekly assembly. Daniel’s progress this week has been phenomenal. He is now using our core vocabulary boards to choose symbols which help him make choices. Daniel showed us that he can consistently ask for more by pointing precisely with his finger at the more symbol. It was wonderful to see him gaining skills which gives him his own voice. Well done Dan!! High five to you! Mr Rollings saved one of his special medals for Daniel as he was super impressed by this progress! Have a look at our Dan…
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zNvQMpDV0dgqFhbW1F6lyjFt8NJ7qbBY/view?usp=sharing
Hi Everyone
We hope that you enjoy our pictures from making ice sculptures, playing in the snow as well as the other activities we have been doing this week. We celebrated Shrove Tuesday early by making pancakes on the school bus. We had great fun this afternoon taking with a singing session outdoors and trying some Chinese food for Chinese New Year. We hope you have a lovely half term and thank you for all your support.
Thank you
Scott, Abbie, Andy, Ann, Jen
Children’s Mental Health Week is this week 1-7 February 2021.
This year’s theme is Express Yourself.
Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. It is about finding a way to show who you are, and how you see the world, that can help you feel good about yourself.
As parents and carers, you play an important role in your child’s mental health. You will find some nice ideas and activities all free on the link below.
https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/parents-and-carers/
We have celebrated this with doing lots of mindful activities, learning how too do breathing exercises, relaxing spa day, then dress to express yourself day on Friday!
Our spa day was a definite favorite and the children have voted to make this a regular treat!
We had a competition with our friends at home to find different colour objects and it was a race back to the screen to see who was the fastest. When our zoom was finished we carried on with the colour matching of the objects we found and created this beautiful rainbow.
We all really love our morning catch up with our friends who are home schooling at the minute and cannot wait to be all together again.
We came dressed in all our bright printed clothing on Friday and had a day of games and dancing, smiles and laughter all day.
Have a wonderful weekend, stay safe.
What great fun we had making lots of mess with our jungle animals. They plodded through chocolate and strawberry angel delight, crunched through cereal and pasta, splashed in jelly and got stuck in the gloop. We may have made a bit of a mess on the floor at the same time!
This week we tried a new session in class. We continued the theme of exploration using scarves, material and pom poms. Using a range of music tempo’s we enjoyed some intensive interaction with children and followed their interests. Using our observations of each child we also worked on individual communication targets and core vocabulary.
The great thing about this session is we had so much fun.
We had lots of outdoor fun again this week. We wanted to explore colour using the snow as a blank canvas. Armed with coloured spray, we made snowmen and all took turns to spray him different colours. Children explored in their own way. Some children sprayed, some poured and some enjoyed rolling in the snow. Basheer decided to lay down and experience tasting the snow flakes as they fell!! A great time was had by all!!
Friday afternoon finished our winter exploration off perfectly in the school Yurt. Children enjoyed choosing music, having cuddles from staff by the idyllic setting of the fire. Looking out on to the cold snowy outdoors was perfect. We shared snacks in there too.
Have a lovely weekend everyone. Stay safe and take care.
