Walking Through the Storm!

21st November 2019Loveday Fisk

Sensory Story

We love gathering together for a sensory story. This term we are listening and interacting with the story ‘Walking Through the Storm… What can it be?’ Throughout the story the children take turns of making the sound of the storm with instruments. They anticipate which character is going to jump out of the cupboard next, after walking through the storm! It could be a ghost, skeleton, monster, spider or witch. We listen to songs related to the characters and dance having lots of intensive interaction. The children like the squirting water bottles representing the rain and often ask for more! We laugh, we smile, and we have lots of fun!  Through this story we are learning to anticipate the routine, use our core vocabulary, enjoy (and sometimes say) the repetitive language and explore the props.  Simon is great at being all of the different characters for us to interact with!

Last Thursday we also celebrated Fatima’s 10th Birthday, we had lots of treats sent in from home that the children enjoyed eating… especially the giant cake!

Many thanks for checking in. See you next week, Loveday and team xx

Dancing Pudsey!

15th November 2019June Ball

On Friday we had a very fun IT lesson. We downloaded a great app called Quiver. Because it was Children in Need we printed off some special pictures for us to colour in. After we coloured them in we use the app to take a photo of them and Pudsey comes ALIVE!

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Mrs Ball, Babs, Sue and Jess.

Children in Need Fun!

15th November 2019June Ball

This week we have been talking about Children in Need in preparation for Children in Need on Friday. As a whole school we have had activities to complete. We had to make a mascot and decide on a name, colouring competition where we had to draw a duck and then colour it in. We also had to bake a biscuit and decorate it, in Class 4 we decided to sell them around school for the adults. We raised £45.00.

This is our mascot. We each chose a name, wrote it down and put it in the hat and then Val, our special volunteer, picked one out. Our mascot is called Puddles!

We had so much fun decorating our biscuits. We made one for us to eat and then we made lots to sell to the adults. We won the baking competition as well!

Everyone’s ducks were amazing, but Noura was our winner!

We have had a great week and have raised lots of money. We will let you know the total next week.

 

 

Children in Need

15th November 2019Phil Cookson

This week we have had a very busy week taking part in lots of activities to support Children in Need. Class 3/4 made a duck class mascot which we named ‘Maquackalakin’. The duck supported all of the activities and watched over the children to make sure they stayed on task. We also decorated some biscuits in food technology keeping in the theme of Children in Need and put smarties on them for Pudsey Bear’s spots. We enjoyed colouring our Pudsey Bear masks in Art and Raheel was crowned the winner for his fantastic efforts! The children will be taking part in the ‘Quackers Run’ this afternoon and we thank you all for your excellent efforts in gaining sponsorship money for the children.

We started our week with a trip out to the Hancock Museum on Monday. The children enjoyed looking at and experiencing the animals and dinosaurs and all had a fantastic time. We are very proud of how well the children were behaved on our outing and how well they represented Hadrian School.

In Science we started learning about light and shadows and the class have been making lots of different shadows using their bodies and props with the big screen and torches. This was a big hit with the children!

The children have all had a very busy week and deserve a well-earned rest this weekend; we have had some children off poorly this week so we wish them a speedy recovery.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Class 3/4 Team.

Bounce, Bounce, Bounce!!

14th November 2019Loveday Fisk

Rebound

Here in Hadrian School we are very lucky to have our very own Rebound Therapy Centre. Rebound therapy has a wide range of benefits to all of our children. Our children have their own specific programme to follow in order to get the most out of this trampoline therapy. It provides opportunities for therapeutic positioning, enhancing movement patterns, exercise, relaxing muscles and strengthening muscles. Additionally we may concentrate on balance, confidence and communication. It is a fun and enjoyable way to progress in all areas of learning! We sing, we count, we talk, we sign, we use energy and we relax!

Throughout our day we have been using core vocabulary communication boards to create opportunities for the children to tell us what they want, whether it be – more, go, stop, help, fast or slow. Rebound is a perfect way to incorporate our core vocabulary, the children enjoy the session which is a good motivator for communicating.

Lacey has picked up the core vocabulary really well choosing stop when the singing and bouncing stops – then selecting more from the board to get going again!

Kimberly has grown in confidence. At the beginning of this school year, she wasn’t keen on sitting on the roll and preferred to be sitting on the trampoline, however this week she has really enjoyed sitting on the roll singing ‘horsey horsey’ while bouncing on the trampoline. Her balance is great and there was smiles all round!

Daniel has been calm during sessions listening to directions and following them whilst having fun signing for more.

Ella is beginning to tolerate her leg strengthening and balance exercise on the trampoline more. Brilliant work Ella!

All of the children have been working very hard, well done to everyone!

Here are some photos of our children getting the most out of this week’s Rebound session. See you all next week, Loveday and team xx

 

Duck Fun Run for Children In Need

14th November 2019Coralie Forbes

We all had fun taking part in a class fun run for Children In Need on Thursday afternoon! The theme was “ducks” and we had lots of fun exploring feathers and then dancing round the school to some great Disney music.

Surprise visit from Pudsey bear Friday morning had all the children smiling!

The children looked fab in their special outfits! We then had an afternoon of games and a Children in Need assembly.

We hope you all have a great weekend.

Coralie and Team

Firework fun in Art!

8th November 2019Coralie Forbes

We have had another busy and happy week.

As it was Bonfire Night we decided to be creative and design a firework display for our walls. All the children had fun using metallic and fluorescent paint to create swirls and marks using their hands on black paper. We then had fun with lots of glitter and sequins to make everything sparkly. We listened to “firework” music as we worked and turned the lights down low to enhance the experience! We now have a fantastic display on our wall!

(Sorry about all the glitter that went home attached to the children, but we had great fun!!)

 

7th November 2019Ellen Jankowski

 What a great first week back! We have welcomed our new friends Jessica and the children have been so kind and friendly, helping her to settle in.

 

Our new science topic is ‘light and shadow’ and we have had a wonderful week learning new vocabulary and experiencing day and night. We have started a new sensory story – Julia Donaldson’s ‘Night monkey, day monkey’. We also had a fabulous lesson role playing day time and night time events. We loved getting our payjamas on, listening to bedtime stories and then eating breakfast!

 

 

Hadrian Hairshop

25th October 2019Elaine Quinn

 

Another busy day in the salon!

Busiest salon day to date with 54 children visiting.

The children really enjoyed the experience, which is more reassuring with their own class staff accompanying them. They also loved to watch their friends having their hair cut and everyone has the opportunity to practice hair styling with the hair styling heads and accessories.

We have raised over £700 which has enabled us to buy resources for both the salon and classes around the school.

We will be running another salon day during next half term so keep an eye out for your pre Christmas appointment!

 

Adaptive clothing to ease the stress of dressing

25th October 2019Elaine Quinn

There are many companies now making clothes that work for children with additional needs, it can ease the stress out of uncomfortable, tight clothing or having to undo clothing. For example, to access a peg for gastro feed.

These back fastening coats are great.

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http://www.disabled-clothing.co.uk

 

https://www.marksandspencer.com › Kids › Easy Dressing
Above are a few of the websites that supply specialist clothing for children additional needs. (We have not personally tried out any garments from these website supplier’s, so any purchases made are at your own discretion)