Thank you so much for coming to support your little Christmas Trees! We really hope you enjoyed the show!
This is all sooo exhausting!
We were lucky enough to have another Christmas trip out!
We had a very busy day visiting Heighley Gate garden centre, where we got to meet the main man himself Santa Claus and his Chief Elf. We had a funtime in the softplay area, where we also had lunch together, then a browse around the wonderful display of lights and decorations.
The rest of the week we have been practicing songs for our Christmas performance, so keep an eye out for next weeks pictures of us looking amazing!
Have a great weekend.
Coralie and team
Another busy day in the ‘Hadrian pop up salon’, we had over 50 children visit throughout the day! It was a day of festive fun, Michael Buble Christmas songs playing, glitter nails and snacks for all.
We have used some of the money raised from the hair shop to buy a shed for outdoor learning, some new floating equipment for our younger children to use in the Hydro pool and a CD player for the quad play area.
Look forward to the next hair shop next term.
We have had a fun filled creative week this week practicing for our Christmas performance! We are all super proud of 6b for their brilliant performance this morning in our own version of The Snowman. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did! Our Christmas trip to Northern Stage to see Wolf! was also amazing. The interactive performance and set design made us feel like we were in the play ourselves and the play as a whole was so entertaining and magical. We then had pizza from La Famiglia which topped off a great day!
See you all on Monday for our final week!
Our trip to South Shields Customs house to see the pantomime for our Christmas treat trip was very magical indeed! It was lovely to see them all so excited and involved in the theatre. The Naughty Elf even came up to our seats to dance with them as their enthusiasm was infectious! After appearing at the end of the show, Santa stayed around to meet the children! They each told him what they would like for Christmas (the staff made note!) and then he kindly gave them each a Christmas book to enjoy with their family. Not one child had to be reminded to say thank you – what super-stars!
After this wonderful morning, we headed to Sambucca’s Italian restaurant for our lunch. The class loved this experience and their behaviour was exemplary! What an absolute credit to school!
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Lucnh at Sambuccas!
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Such good buddies!
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Who is she trying to kid?!
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Mmmmm Pizza!!
Check out our little elves in our ‘Santa’s Workshop’ dance workshop last week (sorry for the delay – technical issues!). The children were split in into 4 elf teams, with each group moving in a different way to get to work to take part in different jobs around Santa’s workshop. The children were all so engaged as Christine from TipToes dance took them on a magical journey through dance and music. It was such a special experience!
The season is here, we have celebrated Christmas all week, starting with our whole school Advent assembly on Monday.
On Tuesday we had a fantastic trip to the Metrocentre where we looked at the lovely tree and all the decorations, a trip to the Disney Store then finished off with a festive train ride.
Wednesday we began our new Christmas sensory story -“I Love Christmas”.
Coralie and Team
We all love Hydrotherapy! Children and the adults, its such an enjoyable relaxing activity where we play games, sing nursery rhymes do lots of turn taking which helps us to get to know each others names, all helping with stimulation of vocalization and language. It also helps increase muscle strength without impact on joints, and helps with reduction of muscle tone.
We have began our artwork for that very special time of year!!! Christmas but shhhh we can’t say the word out loud until December! Looking forward to seeing all of the children’s faces when they see school decorated on Monday.
Coralie and team.
Christmas is certainly round the corner and don’t 6b know it! We had a great Life Skills trip to town on Monday where we got to check out the Christmas Market and Fenwick’s Window before having a snack in the Grainger Market. We can’t wait to put up our Christmas Tree this afternoon all ready for our Advent assembly on Monday.
This term in Literacy the children were introduced to our new Sensory Story – “Wow said the Owl”. The story entertained the children with lots of things to hear, see, touch, taste and ‘do’ and is definitely a big hit with the children!
Over the coming weeks the children will have many opportunities to make choices, practice cause and effect and communicate their feelings/likes/dislikes through eye contact, vocalisations, gestures and early Makaton signs.
The night-time stars
Texture and colours
Exploring colours
Twit twoo
We will re-visit this book over the next few weeks and through repetition the children may begin to form links with the story and in turn start to recall/anticipate as well as practice and build upon new skills such as pressing a switch to make something happen or using their voice in the microphone.
We hope you enjoy the photographs – Coralie and team.
