Christine our Dance Teacher has just uploaded the Winter Hand Jive that we do every week to warm up. Have a go! Sorry it’s sideways on. I’ve tried turning it but can’t do it.
At Hadrian, it has all about maintaining positive vibes this week.
We had an amazing St Patrick’s Day assembly on Tuesday, with dancing, singing and even rapping!
In class, we carried on regardless… in science, we learned about archaeologists then excavated some dinosaurs encased in ice as part of our ‘Water, Ice and Steam’ topic. It was great fun!
In food technology, we adopted a wartime attitude of seeing what was in the class pantry and cooking with that. As it turned out, we had all the ingredients to make an extremely delicious flapjack. Yum!
In addition, we’ve had a great bouncing session, learned to turn the sleeves of our coats the right way out, listened to some super stories, played board games and spent as much time outdoors as we can.
Stay healthy and take care, everyone!
Last week in Class 1a the children were busy working on their preparations for the St Patrick’s Day Assembly this week! They have been making costumes and learning songs and dances in collaboration with Scott’s class Year 6! More pictures from that to follow next week!
They still found time to work on their English and this week they have been concentrating on consolidating learning on the letter sounds they have worked on this term s,a,t and p! They also practiced their prewriting skills using ziplock bags filled with paint taped to tables. This was fun, and mess free!!!
In Maths this week they used spinners to find and identify Numicon plates buried in sand as well as Numicon Bingo and using play dough to make Numicon indentations.
After playtime every afternoon the children in 1a have been practicing being calm and building focus for the afternoon session in our Zen Den. They are learning to be quiet and ‘just be’ for a few minutes per day. You might like to try this at home! They practiced this on their trip to the library where they listened to some lovely stories.
Have a lovely week! Check back next week for our St Patrick’s Day fun!
We’ve had a brilliant week here in 6c – tell us all about it Brandon and Tasnya:
We completed our autobiographies this week – they look absolutely fantastic. We worked extremely hard, composing sentences, typing and choosing photos to use inside. Thank you so much for your cooperation with sending photos in from home for this project.
We continued our work on Ancient Egypt this week, learning all about how the Ancient Egyptians utilised the River Nile to grow crops and catch fish! We learned that the king of Egypt was known as a pharaoh and we had a turn at acting in this role, giving out orders and making demands!
We are looking forward to our trip to the Great North Museum on Monday (and McDonalds!). We would be extremely grateful of a £4 donation for bus fare and lunch.
Have a great weekend!
6c Team
We all have experiences of being engaged in music – even if it is only by tapping our foot to a song on the radio, or singing in the shower. But in the hands of expertly trained music therapists like ours, music can bring added benefits, breaking through where words can’t.
We are so lucky to have a weekly session with our Music Therapist Afra, It is wonderful to watch how engaged the children are.
Well done to Sophia our Half term achiever! You have settled in so well at Hadrian School and try your best in all you do.
Have wonderful weekend.
Coralie and team.
Hi Everyone!
Last week was another mega busy week in Class 1A! The children continued to work on their Picasso ‘Guitar’ creations and some of the children have been bringing their own guitars and stringed instruments into class to play along with our songs. They have also been painting this week as part of their ‘mark making and motor skills’ and using verrrrrrrrrrry long paintbrushes to paint sitting on their seats! It was very hard to keep the long brushes under control! But lots of fun!
It was World Book Day last week also and we had a class theme – The Wizard of Oz! Some of the children dressed up as lions, tin men and scarecrows. Nafisa came as Dorothy and I brought my dog Anabel to be Toto! The children enjoyed having a real life Toto in class for the day. We went to an amazing World Book assembly and read lots of stories.
The children also designed and made their own pizzas last week. It was interesting to find that they didn’t want the ingredients they had picked on their plans! To end the week it was Kian’s birthday and the children had a lovely celebration with him.
Have a lovely week!
“There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.” – J.K. Rowling
“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.” – Robert McKee
In school we love to make world book day special for everyone, the children and staff are welcomed to dress up as their favourite characters and that is just what we did! Everyone made a great effort and looked fantastic in their costumes. We carried on our celebration all day with a visit from ZooLab – meeting some animals, holding them and stroking them while having a story told… “We’re Going on Animal Hunt”.
We ended the day with a special assembly, here children of all ages got to act out their favourite stories and catwalk all the brilliant character outfits!
Stories are the essence of imagination for children, they open up their world of fantasy! Story telling can benefit our children in so many ways – teaching them about different emotions, relationships and forgiveness. It gives them a level of understanding in comprehension and sequencing increasing memory skills and creativity. Stories give our children confidence, helping them with vocabulary and listening skills. World book day is the one day of the year we get to celebrate the impact stories have on our children’s lives – a day we can showcase our favourite stories and characters!
Thank you for reading, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we do!
Best wishes, Loveday and Team xx
What a wonderful week we have had celebrating our love of books!
We had a visit to Seven Stories where we participated in a sensory story ‘Jungle Jamboree’, it was great fun and the children got to dress up in the animal outfits, listen to the different animals sounds and feel lots of textures similar to animal skin.
The children enjoy stories so much, it gives many opportunities to make choices, practice cause and effect and communicate their feelings/likes/dislikes through eye contact, vocalisations, gestures and early Makaton signs.
We had a whole school celebration for World Book Day where the children dressed as characters, they all looked fabulous and had such a great day! In the afternoon we watched some classes doing short plays of their favourite stories.
ZOOLAB came to visit and we got to meet lots of creatures such as snakes, cockroaches, millipedes. We were very brave holding and stroking them.
Coralie and team.
We’ve had a brilliant first two weeks back, here in 6c – tell us all about it Brandon:
We thoroughly enjoyed creating mummies in Humanities:
We absolutely smashed the Boccia tournament at Walker Activity Dome:
Our Pancake Day assembly was hilarious (and delicious!):
And we had a fantastic World Book Day this year – check out our costumes below:
Have a great weekend!
6c Team
What wonderful fun we had on World Book Day. We had a special visit from ZooLab who brought a snail, cockroach, millipede and a snake for us to look at and if we wanted to, we could touch or hold them – look at just how brave some of us were! We also had the chance to take part in ‘The Gruffalo’ story yoga as well as getting dressed up as our favourite characters. To end the day we had a special assembly and shared lots of stories.
