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)

 

 

Happy Half Term!

25th October 2019Rachael Budden

This week, we started the week with a visit to Safety Works, an interactive safety centre.  We learned lots about how to keep ourselves safe in situations such as crossing the road, in the park and in the house.  It was a brilliant morning!

We have been lucky enough to have participated in lots of Halloween activities too.  We are also looking forward to watching a Panto this afternoon in the school hall!

Phew, what a week!  We definitely need a rest next week, so the children are allowed to stay off until November 4th 😉

 

Have a lovely half term and stay safe,

Rachael, Alex, Lewis and Tracy

A busy half-term

25th October 2019John Mosley

Well we’ve reached the end of a very busy half term at last. All of our fabulous children have worked extremely hard to meet their targets. Some of us have had weekly visits to Jesmond Dene for community engagement, as well as picking conkers in the wildlife garden.

Unfortunately for us today was our Tendai’s last day at Hadrian school as he is moving away from Newcastle with his family tomorrow. We’re all going to miss him a lot but would like to wish them all the best of luck in their new home.

Happy holidays

John and the team

Happy Halloween

25th October 2019June Ball

Because Halloween is next week when we are on holiday, we ‘ve had a Halloween themed week. We decorated the Shed Halloween style and even had scary music playing. We made spooky witches fingers and Halloween jelly in Food Technology. In Maths and English our work tied into the Halloween theme too. Best of all on Friday every child in our class dressed up. What amazing costumes we had. Thank you for making such a tremendous effort. The children were so delighted.

We hope you have a good week and we look forward to seeing everyone safely back on Monday, 4th November.

Babs, June, Jess, Sue and Carol.

Happy Halloween!

25th October 2019Loveday Fisk

The last week of our first half term back has been so exciting – we have enjoyed lots of fun activities.  Some of us enjoyed our community engagement trip out to Northumberland Park  on Wednesday and others enjoyed intensive interaction in sensory circuits. The highlight of our week has to be our Halloween exploration party! There were lots of spooky things going on.  We had pumpkin heads with slimy insides oozing out, wiggly worms made from spaghetti and fake blood made from red paint and water… we could enjoy messy play with all these gory activities to get our hands and feet into.

Kimberly really enjoyed painting the adults faces, and Aaron enjoyed giving himself a Halloween face paint look! Conlan had fun singing creepy spider songs and playing with our toy spiders and webs, while Jordan found it exciting to drum to the beat of our haunting Halloween background music. All in all it was a “specdracular” fun time for us all!

Thank you all for such a successful first half term and for all your support.  Have a great and safe half term.  See you soon, Loveday and Team xxx

 

What a Spooktacular party.

25th October 2019Phil Cookson

Here are some photos from our fantastic Halloween party.

The children had an amazing time; they loved getting dressed up and dancing with their friends from Ellen’s class and Rachael’s class. Lots of fun, smiling and laughter took place. Thank you to everyone who was able to send in some party food, this was greatly appreciated by the staff and greatly received by the children!

We wish you all a very spooky Halloween.

Class 3/4 Team.

Autumn Fun!

24th October 2019Elaine Quinn

Fun with leaves!

This week we have taken the opportunity to explore the lovely Autumn leaves which have been falling off the trees. Some of the children went into the Wildlife Garden to gather leaves to bring into the class for us all to explore. Everyone enjoyed exploring the different colours and textures and hearing the sound of the crunchy ones!

I’ve got the most!

Choosing my favourite! Hard work

So many colours, textures and smells

Exploring textures

I loved collecting leaves!

Farewell afternoon tea

Staff and children are going to miss you Ali

On a sad note we said goodbye to Alison one of the staff team who has left us to take up a new post. She has been in our Early Years team for many years and was a much loved and very gifted member of staff. We shall all miss her hugely but wish her all the best in her new job.

Coralie and Team

Fun outdoors

1st October 2019Phil Cookson

Another busy week in class 3/4. The children have enjoyed getting messy and using their exploration skills in a range of activities, indoors and outdoors!

In Science we have started learning about hard and soft. What better way to explore materials than to make slime? The class had great fun watching the textures of the materials change and mixing the ingredients together. Once the slime was made we had lots of fun exploring and making different shapes with the slime.

In Numeracy we went on a treasure hunt around school, the children needed to use their counting skills to find the next clues; this led us to find some yummy treats for everyone to share at the end of the hunt. In literacy we have continued with the story Stick Man and we been practising some fantastic mark making and retelling parts of the story.

It has been great weather to get wrapped up in our waterproofs and head outdoors to explore lots of puddles and the mud kitchen. The children enjoyed using their imagination and getting extremely wet and messy. Expect your children to have a lot more of this over the coming weeks.

Trip to Newcastle Quayside.

1st October 2019Phil Cookson

Continuing with our topic ‘landmarks in and around where we live’, we managed to get out of school for another trip last Tuesday. This time we headed out for a morning down to the Quayside. There are so many fantastic landmarks around the Quayside to look at and enjoy!

We started our adventure at the Sage and stopped off for a drink and snack inside before we walked down lots and lots and lots of steps to make our way to the Millennium Bridge. We had a lovely walk across the bridge and were able to look right along the river to see all of the buildings and bridges crossing the River Tyne. We then made our way to the Baltic and went straight to the top floor in the lift to have a look at the stunning views. The children were very brave as they looked out of the window from so high up and were able to spot the Millennium Bridge, the Sage and the Tyne Bridge.

Class 3/4 had a fantastic time out of school and were excellently behaved.