Our Sweet Valentines!

15th February 2019Elaine Quinn

We have had a fantastic week, and are now feeling ready for a little holiday!  We enjoyed making your Valentine’s cards to show you that we love you very much, and we made sweetheart buns as a little treat.

We are learning all about our bodies at the moment and worked hard this week to make funny faces on the computer.  We had to choose face colour, eyes, ears, hair and mouths.  We had to use our fine motor and IT skills to click and drag the shapes across the page.

Some of our children enjoyed a visit to Hadrian’s Hair Shop this week.  We hope you like everyone’s new haircuts.

Lots of us enjoy using the SI room each week and learn lots of useful skills here, such as lifting ourselves onto the swings and climbing the stairs to whizz down the slide. It’s a lot of fun!

We hope you have a happy and safe half term, and enjoy the Spring sunshine. Please don’t forget to vote for a new governor.  Also, please send spare clothes and swim nappies (if your child uses one) at the start of term.

Thanks,

Hannah and team!

Segedunum

13th February 2019Julia Kelly

On Monday we visited Segedunum in Wallsend as part of our Romans project. There were great views of the fort from the viewing tower. We could see where the headquarters, the hospital, the granary and other buildings had been. We drew our own plans of the fort.

In the Roman Gallery we dressed up as Emperors, soldiers and servants. The clothes were not at all comfortable, some of them were very rough and hairy.

In the Activities Room we put on our hard hats to design and construct our own Hadrian’s Wall. We had some excellent ideas, in fact our ideas were probably better than the Romans!

 

Lydia’s Birthday

11th February 2019Julia Kelly

Last Friday we celebrated our second birthday of the week. Lydia was nine years old on Saturday so we had a party in school. We played pass the parcel, musical statues and musical spots. We then enjoyed a wonderful party tea with a delicious caterpillar cake.

Happy Birthday Lydia.

Babs, Lindsay, Jess and Ann.

A Busy Week in Year 4/5A

8th February 2019Julia Kelly

What a busy week we’ve had again. We continue to work on our wonderful sculptures in Art. This week we used papier mache to strengthen our structures ready to add different interesting materials next week.

It was the start of Chinese New Year celebrations on Wednesday and we began the celebrations with a very interactive assembly. We began to find out about Chinese New Year and enjoyed a class quiz which we will revisit later to see how much we have learnt. Some children made lanterns, some decorated dragon masks and some children practised Chinese writing! We will make Chinese food next week in food technology and get involved in some dragon dancing.

We also celebrated two birthdays this week. More photographs to come next week as we’re having a party this afternoon for Lydia’s 9th birthday.

And finally, we have created a new story area which Nathan has fully embraced, presenting his story telling to the class. Wonderful!

Have a good weekend.

Babs, Lindsay, Ann and Jess

New Year Take 2!

7th February 2019Elaine Quinn

We have had a really busy week at school, working hard and playing hard, too!   This week we have been practising our mark-making and learning how to write our names. We love using Penpals on the Smartboard to form our letters!

On Tuesday we enjoyed an assembly which was all about Chinese New Year.  We dressed up, tried some noodles and watched a street parade in China Town on the screen.

In our food technology lesson, we made stir-fried vegetables and rice with soya sauce.  It was delicious!  We had to use our fine motor skills to chop the vegetables. It was quite tricky but we managed it!

We acted out the story of Chinese New Year, and had a great time pretending to be different animals by wearing the masks.

 

We now offer Party Bookings!

7th February 2019Elaine Quinn

 

We are offering Party Bookings for our Rebound Therapy Centre. The offer includes the use of the Rebound Therapy Centre, Sports Hall, Dance Studio and Kitchen. We can also supply trained rebound therapy staff at an additional cost if required.

What do I get for my money?

  • You would have full use of the Rebound Therapy Centre – all 5 trampolines
  • The full use of the Sports Hall including sports/games equipment
  • The use of the Dance Studio/Kitchen to set up your food/buffets etc.
  • A member of staff on call to assist with Rebound Therapy/setting up equipment helping to tidy up etc.

We would generally recommend at least 2 members of staff especially if you are using all 5 trampolines.

The costs of the booking would be as follows:

£65.00 per hour for the use of all the facilities (a minimum booking of 2 hours) – this includes 1 member of staff

Additional members of trained Rebound Therapy Staff would cost an additional £15.00 per hour.

Most parties are typically 2 hours and have 2 members of staff so an example cost would be for a 2 hour party:

£65.00 per hour = £130.00 – for 2 hours

£30.00 for an additional member of staff for 2 hours

Total £160.00

All bookings are covered by our Public Liability and Hire’s Liability Insurance for your peace of mind and our staff are first aid trained and will deal with any accidents/incidents.

We are happy to facilitate parties in holidays and on weekends. Note: on a Saturday there is only availability after 1.30pm.

Pop up Hair Shop

7th February 2019Elaine Quinn

We have a date for  Wednesday 13th February for our Pop up Hair Shop. We can only offer dry cuts and we have qualified hairdressing staff who work in school who will be cutting hair.

We will also be offering our manicure and pedicure service. This includes a foot spa and option for nails painted, which was a big hit with the children at the last pop up shop.

 

We are asking for a £3.00 donation and all funds will be donated to school.

 

Fun in the snow!

6th February 2019Nadia Motie

Hello everyone!

We loved having a fun day in the snow last week! We made the most of the sensory experience and wrapped up warm to explore the lovely snow that had fallen in our playground!

We have also been enjoying time in the sensory room for intensive interaction and we have had some lovely music sessions over the last week!

Enjoy!

 

A Week in Class 1a

1st February 2019Jess Burns

Hi everyone,

We have been working hard in Literacy, we have role played our story twice using different actors. They were great at following instructions and shouting key phrases from the story. They were fab at drawing straight lines and colouring in either a pig or a wolf head mask. Just look at those mark making skills.

During maths, we have been working on shape. They were great at throwing the shape bean bags into the correct shape. We then went on a shape hunt to find shapes in the environment, their favourite was obviously pizza as a triangle!

During Science, we have been making predictions, sorting materials and experimenting whether they are heavy or light. The children loved trying to blow away the different materials with a hairdryer and sorting them into yes and no piles.

We are now back into the swing of hydro! The children are on their way to completing their hydro targets for this year and their confidence is just wonderful to watch.

We have snow!! What a lovely and exciting treat, the children have enjoyed putting on their wellies and playing in the snow. I hope you all have a great weekend!

Thank you,

Jess, Kairen, Sharon, Katherine and Michele

 

Thrive and achieve!

1st February 2019Loveday Fisk

Thrive and achieve!

 

This week in the Thrive Room we found our own fun and involved our friends along the way. Fatima found her way to the doll’s house, where she gave all the family a lovely warm bath all by herself. Over on the sofa the boys brought a story book to Amy and then enjoyed an exciting story with lots of wild characters and voices. Katy and Peniel put on a great show, taking turns to bring the stage to life with the puppets.

A successful day indeed!

This week Ella and Billy had a fantastic time working with an adult on the computer. Ella spent her time looking at all the different letters on the keyboard and then with support coming to realise they were on the screen too! Billy went head to head with Phil in a bid to become the next top gamer. Who will be the ‘Legends’ Champion?

The whole class had a fantastic time with our usual antics too! Using shadows to tell stories in exploration and investigation and substituting hair for noodles in messy play! Good idea Fatima!

Shay also saw a prime time for a photo during exploration and investigation. Picking the iPod up himself, he took it over to Louise and shouted ‘Photo!’ Jordan jumped in on the action too. Cheese!!!