In PE we have been working on our dance moves and showcasing them behind the white screen to great effect. Our favourite piece of music is from The Greatest Showman and just look at our mini performance.
https://youtu.be/VVvgFhsSXw8
This looks just perfect for any families that struggle to go abroad with their family because of their child’s additional needs.
One of our parents at Hadrian has recently returned and reported they had the best holiday ever!
You can apply for help with costs through the 24×7 Special Needs Holiday Trust which is a registered UK charity created to financially assist families where it could. The trust is constantly looking at ways to raise funds to send people to Centre Algarve for a well-deserved break, turning their wishes into a reality – http://centrealgarve.org/
Centre Algarve Holiday Centre for people with Special Needs –
“Set in the beautiful Ria Formosa Nature Reserve and just 2 minutes from the pretty local village of Moncarapacho, the Centre Algarve is mainland Europe’s only specialist holiday Centre which is fully equipped to allow people with special needs young and old to experience a wonderful holiday with their family or carers.
We have created an environment where everybody feels comfortable, safe and secure within our wonderful grounds that are fully enclosed and gated. A magical and unique holiday centre where fun and memories are created.
The Centre has 14 bedrooms keeping the experience intimate and not too overwhelming as with most large complexes. Whether you are relaxing by the pool or enjoying yourself within our private secure facilities, you will always be able to keep a watchful eye even whilst you relax and unwind in the evening”.
Facilities include:
Discovery centre »The Discovery Centre has a multisensory and soft play room which allows visitors to experience different light, sound and tactile sensations.
Animal experience »As an integral part of staying with us all guests can have an up-close encounter with our collection of animals.
Swimming Pool »The swimming and paddling pools are enclosed for safety and security. The pool is accessible via a seated hoist and there is also extended wider steps and grab rail.
Sensory and vegetable gardens »The Centre boasts extensive gardens with many smells textures and colours.
Sensory room »The Discovery Centre has a multisensory and soft play room which allows visitors to experience different light, sound and tactile sensations.
Returning back to school nice and refreshed from the half term holiday, we started our summer term by getting straight back into routine.
We have a new sensory story this half term ‘Once Upon a Time’. Building on from our previous story ‘The Emotional Postman’, we have different emotions, actions and sensory experiences including a new one – taste! This week the children travelled to the Antarctic where they got to experience the cold ice and meet a magic Postman, who granted each child a wish! The story has lots of opportunity for choice making and early communication.
On Monday, we have a new venue for our outdoor learning, the early year’s playground. During outdoor learning this week we have begun turn taking games. The children explore the playground themselves and find something they enjoy, we then incorporate vocabulary and turn taking into the activities. Kimberly found her way over to the football, where she took turns with Amy and Shay to score goals. Kimberly began to explore the different ways she could score. Rolling, bouncing and throwing the ball. Well done!
We had an excellent time in the pool this week, with new targets for the term met already! Peniel lay on his back for the first time, Ella started to blow bubbles into the water and Joseph began accepting water on his face. Well done everyone!
Science and Design Technology week!
This week, the whole school have been taking part in Science and DT week. Over the week we have had lots of interesting experiments and exploring to take part in. On Monday we all planted cauliflower and cress seeds outside in the sunshine, after planting our seeds we each took turns to water them using a watering can. We all heard and even began to say lots of different words during our outdoor session like flower, water, soil and plant.
On Tuesday the whole class got to go and visit our new water wall in the mud kitchen and wildlife garden, we all had a fantastic afternoon building and digging in the sand and figuring out lots of different ways to play and transport water. Fatima showed excellent engagement throughout our time at the water wall, showing curiosity and interest in all of the different equipment and figuring out the cause and effect for each of them. Well done Fatima!
On Wednesday we got our cooking aprons out for messy play but this time, we added a spring flare to our cakes to try and achieve another year of victory in the Hadrian Great British Bake off. While we all whisked up the classic sponge mixture Leon and Theresa went out to find daisies, blue bells and dandelions to add. Ella showed great enthusiasm when adding the flowers, investigating each one and smelling them too.
On Thursday we all went to the secret garden where there were bubbles, everywhere! Bubble machines, a bubble bath and lots of different gadgets to make GIGANTIC BUBBLES. Amongst all of the bubble play we had a paddling pool filled with soapy water and lots of tools to make bubbles, Peniel must have been having so much fun he got a bit warm so decided just to get inside the pool himself to cool off.
For the past few weeks we have been preparing for the “Tuck Shop in the Shed” to raise money for a local charity and also for our end of year trip. This morning we got together the goodies, baked and also decorated the shed in the outdoor play area. Each class was invited to come and spend their money on a selection of sweet treats. Our children took it in turns to sit with the till and collect the money. There was music selected by the children and even entertainment outside the shed provided by Nathan! There was a lovely atmosphere with lots of classes enjoying their treats outside on the tables and on rugs.
We would like to say a huge “thank you ” to Parents/Carers how kindly sent in money and donations and to all of the staff in the classes who supported us. It looks like we raised around £71.00 which is amazing. Also a huge “thank you” to Richard’s Nana, who provided many of the treats. We will add the money raised today to money already raised and will let you know the total very soon.
We hope you have a peaceful holiday and we look forward to seeing the children on June 3rd for the last half term of the year!
Babs, Jess, Lindsay and Ann.
Hi everyone,
We had such a great day at Plessey Woods, the children were so free and top explorers! We discovered a troll’s bridge and we walked across the bridge really quiet not to wake him!
On our travels, we found some wooden drums, the children found themselves a stick and banged really hard to make the loudest noises they could. A little further, we could smell a lovely smell in the air and we discovered some wild garlic. We all decided to pick a piece and put it into our bag so we could make some garlic butter for our bread! It was delicious!
There was an exciting discovery of a witch’s den and a troll’s bog! The child loved hiding the in the bog and scaring their friends. We even heard a witch’s cackle! The more we walked the more we found and we discovered totem poles hiding in the woods. They were bright and colourful and the children loved hiding and running around them. We then found some trees that were perfect for climbing, we decided to hang from the tree and pretend to be monkeys.
As we walked along, the children were able to move and explore the new and exciting environment, they were listening for birds and picking up all the natural objects they could find! They were so sensible, that we decided after dinner we deserved a play in the new park.
We couldn’t have done it without our helpful Year 6s, what top role models Hannah and Drae were!
I think the adults had just as much fun as the children!
I hope you all have a safe and wonderful holiday filled with exploring! This is the children’s last day at school.
Massive thank you to everyone who sends in snacks and donations for school and our class! We greatly appreciate it! Next half term we have lots of exciting trips!
Thank you,
Jess and the team
On the morning of the last day of Science week we had a whole school assembly and every class’ Bake Off entries were judged. As you can see we called ours Gardeners Delight, using our snails as inspiration. Unfortunately we didn’t win.
We had a busy afternoon. We went down to the Music Studio which had been turned into a Light and Dark room. We had lots of fun in the tents and with the different lights. We then had to quickly run up to the Hydro pool to put our boats we made in the water and have a race. No ones boat sank, thankfully! Kinza was crowned the winner.
We have had so much fun taking part in Science Week.
To finish off our topic of Teddy Bears Picnic we did just that – we made some sandwiches and Krispy cakes, got some pom bear crisps and the ice-cream that Paula very kindly bought for us and headed outside in the sunshine with our teddies for a picnic.
What a wonderful week we’ve had! We have really enjoyed our Science and DT week and have learned lots of new things.
We started our week with an assembly by the Cool Science Guy. He made explosions, created bubbles filled with smoke, and he even set fire to Mr Rollings! In the afternoon, the Cool Science Guy helped us to make slime, which we took home. It was loads of fun to touch the sticky stuff.
We have also enjoyed a trip to the Secret Garden for some bubble-making fun. We were so enthusiastic about the bubble mixture that some of us needed a full change of clothes afterwards!
Some of us enjoyed the den-building activity in the Caterpillar Garden. We had so much fun finding long branches and sticks to create a little camp. We all know how to survive in the wild, now!
Did you come to our science fair? It was such fun to show off our exhibit. Our experiment was based around making cars go fast by sending them down different slopes. Did you have a go? What did you find out?
We were sad not to win the Science Week Bake Off. We made some lovely floral biscuits in a garden filled with edible soil which we thought was a surefire winner, but well done to Phil’s class, who stormed into 1st place with a wonderful chocolate confection.
It’s been a fantastic week, full of exploration and fun. We want it to be science and DT week every week! Have a great weekend, everyone.
Day four of our Science Week and we did some experiments of our own. We then went down to the sports hall where we took part in the Science Fair. Each class had to run a stall with a science experiment. The children took it in turns to walk around the fair and have a go at each experiment. We chose to work with static electricity. We all had a go at making tissues float in the air and seeing whose balloon it would go to. We also had empty cans and were able to move them with out touching the. We had so much fun.
In the afternoon half of us continued our work with the Bake-Off – it will not be a secret much longer! The other half of the children went to the Thrive Garden and planted some flowers.
