2^nd April 2025

Dear Parent/Carers,

I hope many of our families enjoyed a Happy Eid and I know we are also looking forward to a Happy Easter very soon. There is an Eid Assembly this Friday afternoon at 1:30pm which you are all welcome to attend and an Easter Assembly next Friday morning 11^th April at 9:45am which you are also very welcome to attend, both events will be in our Sports Hall.

 We still would love your Parental Feedback

This year we are trying out a new digital Parental Questionnaire, you can access this via the school     website and via the text message that was sent last week.

Your views are very important to us so please take the time to complete the questionnaire with your views of Hadrian School. https://forms.gle/HR1g9G9ce3tKve2X7 If you have any difficulties following the link please get in touch. To translate this into another language you just have to right click on the front page of the website.

 School Meals Price Increase

The price of all schools meals will be £3.00 from the 7^th April. If your circumstances have changed or you think you may be entitled to free school meals please see the web address below to apply:

https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/services/schools-learning-and-childcare/help-school-and-learning-costs/apply-free-school-meals

Newcastle Gang Show Tuesday 22^nd April to Saturday 26^th April

A member of our staff is involved in this year’s Gang Show and is keen for many of our families to take up the opportunity to enjoy a fantastic family friendly variety show. All tickets are £15 available via www.newcastlegangshow.co.uk or on 07508582774 at the People’s Theatre, Heaton.

Updates

• More information will follow but just to give you the ‘heads up’ we intend to take the whole school to Nuns Moor Fair on Thursday 1^st Class Teachers will be in touch soon with more details
• Monday 5^th May Bank Holiday, school opens Tuesday 6^th May
• Just advance notice, the next Hadrian social with staff will be our wonderful ‘Pie & Pea Supper’ on Thursday 22^nd May 5:30pm – 7:30pm
• Easter holidays start Friday 11^th April at 3:15pm. Children return to school on Monday the 28^th Children break up for the half term holidays on Thursday the 22^nd May at 3.15pm, there is a staff Training Day on Friday the 23^rd May

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings

Head Teacher

18^th March 2025

Dear Parent/Carers,

Parents’ Evening Thursday 20^th March

Just a reminder if you have not already, could you please contact your child’s Class Teacher to make an appointment for Parents Evening this Thursday.

This year we are trying out a new digital Parental Questionnaire, you can access this via the school     website and via the text message that was sent last week.

Your views are very important to us so please take the time to complete the questionnaire with your views of Hadrian School. https://forms.gle/HR1g9G9ce3tKve2X7

If you have any difficulties following the link please get in touch. To translate this into another language you just have to right click on the front page of the website.

School Meals Price Increase

The price of all schools meals will be £3.00 from the 7^th April. If your circumstances have changed or you think you may be entitled to free school meals please see the web address below to apply:

https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/services/schools-learning-and-childcare/help-school-and-learning-costs/apply-free-school-meals

Hairshop

Just a reminder to return your Hairshop letters by the 21^st March.

Reminders

Just advance notice, the next Hadrian social with staff will be our wonderful ‘Pie & Pea Supper’ on Thursday 22^nd May 5:30pm – 7:30pm.

Easter holidays start Friday 11^th April at 3:15pm. Children return to school on Monday the 28^th April.Children break up for the half term holidays on Thursday the 22^nd May at 3.15pm, there is a staff training day on Friday the 23^rd May.Children break up for the summer holidays on Friday the 18^th July at 3.15pm, returning to school on Wednesday the 3^rd September (following two training days on the 1^st/2^nd September.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings

Head Teacher

11^th March 2025

Dear Parent/Carers,

Black & White Assembly on Friday 14^th March before the Carabao Cup Final

We may as well enjoy the anticipation and excitement of the build up to the League Cup Final this Sunday, who knows we may yet leave Wembley as victors so please feel free to send your children into school this Friday dressed in black and/or white, in their football kits, PJ’s for a fun assembly with the Geordie songs and a football theme. If possible, could you child bring a bottle to school too, as we start to prepare for our fund raising efforts for the new Hydro Pool. It can be a bottle of pop, of alcohol, of ketchup, we don’t mind, but it’s the theme of celebrating the cup with a bottle that we have in mind. Cheers!

Shakespeare in Schools Festival Thursday 13^th March at Northern Stage

Good luck to our cast of Much Ado About Nothing who are performing this Thursday in the brilliant Shakespeare in Schools Festival. If you can’t make it they are performing again for school this Friday 14th March 1:45pm in our Sports Hall, please feel free to join us if you can.

Parents’ Evening Thursday 20^th March

This year we are trying out a new digital Parental Questionnaire, you can access this via the website and via a text alert. https://forms.gle/HR1g9G9ce3tKve2X7

If you have any difficulties following the link please get in touch. To translate this into another language you just have to right click on the front page. Your views are very important to us, so please take this opportunity to feedback your thoughts on our school. Your child’s Teacher will offer individual appointment times very soon.

Hoult’s Yard Charity Night for Hadrian

Greggs are sponsoring a fundraising night in support of Hadrian School on Thursday 27th March 6:00pm onwards at the Tapyard Studios in Hoult’s Yard. Part of the evening will be a Quiz for teams of 5. Entry is £5 per person. At this point we just need an idea of numbers attending for catering purposes, so please let our Admin Team know if you can attend and how many tickets you would like (adults only).

Just advance notice, the next Hadrian social with staff will be our wonderful ‘Pie & Pea Supper’ on Thursday 22^nd May 5:30-7:30pm

Remember the Easter holiday starts Friday 11^th April at 3:15pm

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings

Head Teacher

4^th March 2025

Dear Parent/Carers,

Welcome back! I hope the holidays were fun and I’m guessing you are happy for us to step back up? Lots to come including the following;

• Pancake/Ramadan Assembly on Tuesday 4^th March
• Friends of Hadrian meets on Tuesday 4^th March, live at 3:30pm or via TEAMS, all welcome
• World Book Day Assembly on Thursday 6^th March, on a ‘space theme’
• Shakespeare in Schools Festival Thursday 13^th March at Northern Stage
• Black & White Assembly on Friday 14^th March before the Carabao Cup Final
• Parents’ Evening on Thursday 20^th March, more information will follow soon
• Easter holiday starts Friday 11^th April at 3:15pm

We will be sending out our annual Parental Questionnaire before Parents’ Evening which we would love you to complete. Remember, you can forward your views on school at any point in the school year, for example, it would be lovely to hear your feedback on our Achiever Assemblies and the wonderful presentations our staff share with you. Or you could always write an article for the new edition of the Hadrian Herald which will be coming later this term.

Friends of Hadrian tonight at 3:30pm!!

As ever, the success of the Friends is very much reliant upon your support, your ideas for closer working relationships between school and our partners, your fund raising ideas, ideas for social events etc. We need to plan a series of new fundraising events for the Hydrotherapy Pool, talk through plans for the Summer Fayre, more opportunities for joined up projects with Sir Charles Parsons and whatever else you would like to bring to the table. If you are unable to make it please still email me your ideas and suggestions to chris.rollings@hadrian.newcastle.sch.uk I would love to hear from you.

Remember it is World Book Day this Thursday so the children are encouraged to either come in their pajamas or a book character for the fancy dress parade in assembly.

Parental Training

As a school we have a very generous training offer for parents, the next two free options are around Mental Health on the 26^th March and Complementary Therapies on the 8^th May, both 9:30-12:30pm here at Hadrian. If you are keen please contact david.palmer@hadrian.newcastle.sch.uk Please attend or send apologies if you have booked a place and then cannot attend, places are limited and sometimes we restrict numbers only for two or three parents to actually then turn up.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings

Head Teacher

19^th February 2025

Dear Parent/Carers,

As we head to the Spring Half Term holiday I just wanted to remind you of some forthcoming dates for your diaries and bring you up to speed with school life.

• Half Term starts this Friday 21^st February at 3:15pm and we return to school on Monday 3^rd March
• Pancake Assembly on Tuesday 4^th March
• Friends of Hadrian meets on Thursday 6^th March, live at 4:00pm or via TEAMS, all welcome
• World Book Day Assembly on Thursday 6^th March, on a ‘space theme’
• Shakespeare in Schools Festival Thursday 13^th March at Northern Stage
• Black & White Assembly on Friday 14^th March before the Carabao Cup Final
• Parents’ Evening on Thursday 20^th March, more information will follow soon
• Easter holiday starts Friday 11^th April at 3:15pm

Next half term we will be sending out our annual Parental Questionnaire before Parents’ Evening which we would love you to complete. Remember, you can forward your views on school at any point in the school year, for example, it would be lovely to hear your feedback on our Achiever Assemblies and the wonderful presentations our staff share with you. Also did some of your children arrive home with lovely haircuts and nails painted last week?

Attendance

Many thanks to those families that have agreed to bring their children on time for a 9:00am start and are picking their children up at 3:15pm, it is very much appreciated. Can we also remind you that any medical appointments should not require your child to be absent all day. Please pick your child up in time for your appointment and then return them back to school following the appointment. Also, just to remind you, we cannot authorise any holidays in term time, please consult with us if you intend to take your child out of school during term time, their attendance full-time is very important to us.

Friends of Hadrian

As ever, the success of the Friends is very much reliant upon your support, your ideas for closer working relationships between school and our partners, your fund raising ideas, ideas for social events etc. We need to plan a series of new fundraising events for the Hydrotherapy Pool, talk through plans for the Summer Fayre, more opportunities for joined up projects with Sir Charles Parsons and whatever else you would like to bring to the table.

Site Security

Just a note of reassurance with regards to our site security and the measures we have in place for visitors on site. All visitors sign-in in the vestibule before entering the main building (which provides a named/photo ID badge). We have a security camera facing the sign-in so Admin can actually see who is requesting entrance as they are signing-in from a monitor in Admin. They are then provided with their Photo/ID badge by a member of the Admin Team who consistently man the door entry system all day long. Visitors don’t travel around the building without an escort, unless they are staff familiar with the building, such as visiting professionals, volunteers, mid-day supervisors, students on placement etc.

Deliveries on site are restricted access during transport times, 8:45am-9:15am and 2:45pm-3:20pm. Our staff police the car park and prevent vehicles from moving without authorisation and the main gates are closed to prevent unwanted access at these times.

Parent/Carers who drop off and pick up your own children can help us by not coming into the main doors to school without first buzzing and speaking to a member of the Admin Team.

Visitors to our HEADS Training Centre are escorted to the site and badged in the Training Centre. We now ensure that the Sports Hall doors remain closed at all times between pupil transitions.

We encourage our staff not to let visitors’ entry to the building when the doors are open without being challenged and signposted to Reception. We have a Staff Briefing every Monday morning at 8:30am where matters of security, risk assessments, safe practice in school are regularly discussed and reminders given so that we remain as vigilant as possible with site security. At these Briefings we let our staff know when we have Parents visiting to Coffee Mornings or courses so that they can look out for you, but are also aware you are onsite.

The children are always under the close supervision of our staff in the building and at playtimes. If an intruder was to access the site we have mobiles and walkie-talkies around the site that would alert staff to any danger which would trigger the appropriate actions.

We have had our site security validated by OfSTED and the LA but we are not complacent and will keep making improvements to our site security as and when necessary. If ever you wish to discuss site security or have suggestions as to how we can improve our practice please get in touch.

Enjoy the holidays everyone and see you on the other side.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings

Head Teacher

31^st January 2025

Dear Parent/Carers,

Kung hei fat choi to all of our families with connections to China, South Korea and Vietnam. We celebrated on Wednesday with a wonderful assembly with dragon dancing, singing, cooking and storytelling, it was fab! We hope you have a prosperous and healthy new year ahead. If you pop on our FaceBook page there are some lovely photos of the assembly.

Just a reminder of the offer to visit the Centre for Life coming up soon.

Centre for Life Newcastle

 We have 8 free tickets left on Sunday 9^th February between 10:00am – 12:00pm for a relaxed access session. This would allow you the opportunity to tour the facilities, see the Creativity, Brain, and Space Zones, and enjoy the Play Zone with many of the features toned down in sound and vision. The Centre are keen to include more families with youngsters with additional needs, and their siblings to take advantage of these relaxed Sunday sessions in the hope that you may become repeat visitors. The 8 tickets include each family member or friend, not one ticket per family, if that makes sense, so we would need to know exactly how many tickets you would require as a family. If you are interested please contact our Admin Team by Monday 3^rd February.

School Council Plea

We have recently met with our wonderful School Council and they have a few requests you may be able to support. Does anyone have a large toy car that children aged 8-11 could get into and push?? Has anyone got a karaoke machine you no longer use? Does anyone have contacts to get some tarpaulin to use for outdoor learning? Anyone have spare football goals? Scooters and helmets as always! Any support much appreciated. As ever, any donations of juice and healthy snacks would be great.  We would like to make a plea for packets of baby wipes, the school is spending £1000s a year at present so any help you can give to help reduce the financial pressure would be much appreciated.

Pass it on Parents, and Friends of Hadrian events will be coming soon, further information to follow. We also have a new ‘Cake & Chat’ Parents drop-in starting on Friday 7^th February in our Music/Dance Studio.

Data Collection Forms

Could you please check, sign and return the forms, even if there are no changes.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings

Head Teacher

 

8^th January 2025

Dear Parent/Carers,

Happy New Year. I hope you have all had a wonderful time with your loved ones and are ready for the challenges 2025 will bring? Did you enjoy reading the latest edition of the Hadrian Herald? If you would like to make any contributions to the new edition later this spring please get in touch. It could be signposting favourite places to visit, signposting support groups, telling your child’s story, sharing a family pets page, whatever your ideas we would be interested in putting them into the next edition.

Remember your Class Teacher and team are always here to support you, don’t wait for an invite into school, just post a note to us and we can arrange a catch up meeting when it suits. This term tends to go by very quickly, so any goals you have as a family share them with us now and we will see how we can help.

On behalf of the whole school, many thanks for the kind gifts, cards and good wishes you sent in at the end of term, it means the world to us.

Centre for Life Newcastle

 We have been very kindly offered 40 free tickets on Sunday 9^th February between 10:00am – 12:00pm for a relaxed access session. This would allow you the opportunity to tour the facilities, see the Creativity, Brain, and Space Zones, and enjoy the Play Zone with many of the features toned down in sound and vision. The Centre are keen to include more families with youngsters with additional needs, and their siblings to take advantage of these relaxed Sunday sessions in the hope that you may become repeat visitors. The 40 tickets include each family member or friend, not one ticket per family, if that makes sense, so we would need to know exactly how many tickets you would require as a family. If you are interested please contact our Admin Team by 16^th January as we anticipate demand being very high.

As ever, any donations of spare clothes, juice and healthy snacks, old bikes, toys, anything from your Christmas clear out can be put to good use in school. We would like to make a plea for packets of baby wipes, the school is spending £1000s a year at present so any help you can give to help reduce the financial pressure would be much appreciated.

Keep an eye out for the next round of Confident Parenting workshops, Pass it on Parents, Friends of Hadrian events which will be coming soon.

We are being audited by the Local Authority later this month around our monitoring of attendance. Can we ask you to support us by ensuring your child is in school 9.00am – 3.15pm each day, and you let school know why your child is absent from school. If your child is late for any reason you must sign-in for late registration on the iPad in reception.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings

Head Teacher

 

10th December 2024

 

Dear Parent/Carers,

Well Christmas has certainly arrived in school. Many thanks to all who attended the Christmas Wreath Making last Wednesday, it was a lovely afternoon and evening with our staff enjoying the event too. Special thanks to one of our talented Parents, Hayley Watson for instructing all to make some wonderful creations.

Elf Day was another huge success. We are so grateful to your families and friends for pulling out all of the stops and raising £2790 so far for our new Hydrotherapy Pool. Please send in any remaining sponsor monies by the end of the week for school banking purposes. The children and staff had a fun day too! What an amazing result!

We also want to say many thanks for supporting our Christmas Fayre last Friday evening. There was a great turnout, as ever, with some lovely feedback on the Christmas Yurt and the musical entertainment. Thanks to the Hadrian staff for the team spirit in assembling and tidying up this event in one long day! We raised an amazing £1,400 thanks to your generosity.

The children thoroughly enjoyed meeting Santa in school yesterday, thanks to our friends from Stagecoach. Some lucky families will also be receiving kind gifts from our local Hindu Temple on the West Road. You might like to send them a ‘thank you’ card which we will pass on your behalf. It is always important to remember to say ‘thank you’ particularly at this time of year when our attention turns to the needs of others less fortunate than ourselves.

Look out for the new Hadrian Herald next week and another bumper edition full of news and views.

Dates for your diary include the following;

• Christmas Shows on Thursday 12th for June and Lauren, Charli, Dave, Amy H, Phil, Loveday, Josie & John
  Friday 13th December for Sarah, Amy Brown, Ellen, Becky, Deborah, Marc, Rachael, Grace, & Shirley
  Your Class Teachers will keep you posted for your child’s Christmas Parties
• If you are free this Thursday afternoon around 1:15pm, you might want to pop along and cheer our School Choir on as they entertain the shoppers in the Grainger Market with a medley of Christmas songs, it would be good to see you all
• School breaks up for the Christmas holidays as normal 3:15pm on Friday 20th December/ The children return to school on Tuesday 7th January 2025 (Training Day Monday 6th January)

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings

Head Teacher

2^nd December 2024

Dear Parent/Carers,

A huge thank you to those of you who were able to support our first Chaii & Chaat evening last Thursday. We had a wonderful evening of entertainment and refreshments and huge support from all members of our community blending a fusion of Asian and British music traditions (with a bit of Greece thrown in?). Can I say a very big ‘thank you’ to the orchestrator of these evenings, Labli Rahman, one of our brilliant Teaching & Learning Assistants who devotes hours of time in preparation for these events. Also a huge ‘thank you’ to Bev Luke, a former member of staff who raised almost £1924 on Friday night at a fundraising event at Kenton Social Club! Incredible result and these funds will also go toward our Hydrotherapy fundraising project.

If you are bringing your child to school after 9.00am you will be asked to sign them in on the iPad in Reception, this is so we can monitor children’s attendance.

Dates for your diary include the following;

• Pass it on Parents on Tuesday 3^rd December 10:00am
• A reminder of Elf Day this Friday, we would be grateful if the sponsor forms sent out last week could be returned to school
• Christmas Fayre Friday on 6^th December, 5.30pm in the Sports Hall, If you have any unwanted bottles to send in, we would be very grateful
• Christmas Jumper and Christmas Lunch Day on Tuesday 10^th December
• Save the date for the Christmas Shows on Thursday 12^th for Class 1 (June and Lauren) Class 2 (Charli), Class 6 (Dave), Class 14 (Amy H), Class 15 (Phil), Class 16 (Loveday), Class 18 (Josie), Class 19 (John)
  Friday 13^th December for Class 4 (Sarah), Class 7 (Amy Brown), Class 8 (Ellen), Class 9 (Becky), Class 10 (Deborah), Class 11 (Marc), Class 12 (Rachael), Class 13 (Grace), Class 17 (Shirley).

There will be a wealth of other Christmas activities coming soon from the Santa Bus visiting on the 9^th December, our Choir singing in the Grainger Market on the afternoon of the 12^th December, class trips to see Santa, class parties, a Christmas Celidh and more!

Once again, as we approach winter, can I remind you that we have some very vulnerable children in school that are prone to chest infections and have low immune systems. Can I please ask you to respect the 48 hours absence with sickness and diarrhoea and to ensure you do not send your child into school with a chest infection or any other serious ailments.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings

Head Teacher

13th November 2024

Dear Parent/Carers,

To those of you who were able to attend our Bonfire Night, I hope you all enjoyed the fireworks and the hospitality. Many thanks for your really positive feedback and to those of you who shared your photos and videos on our Facebook page, many may well reappear in the latest edition of the Hadrian Herald which will be out shortly.
Can I just take this opportunity to once again thank the amazing Hadrian staff who pulled out all the stops in preparation for the night and to the Friends of Hadrian for all of the organisation and attention to details behind the scenes? Now onto the Christmas fayre!

Dates for your diary include the following;

• Children in Need on Friday 15th November. Feel free to send your children into school in fancy dress or spots with a contribution to Children in Need
• Chaii & Chaat on Thursday 28th November 5:30pm-7:30pm at Hadrian School. This is a new initiative that we would love you to support, particularly to our multicultural community
• Pass it on Parents on Tuesday 3rd December 10:00am
• Christmas Wreath Making on Wednesday 4th December 1:00pm in the School Hall, more details to follow
• Elf Day & Christmas Fayre Friday on 6th December, more details to follow. If you have any bottles or quality toys to send in, we would be very grateful
• Christmas Jumper and Christmas Lunch Day on Tuesday 10th December
• Save the date for the Christmas Shows on Thursday 12th for Class 1 (June and Lauren) Class 2 (Charli), Class 6 (Dave), Class 14 (Amy H), Class 15 (Phil), Class 16 (Loveday), Class 18 (Josie), Class 19 (John)
Friday 13th December for Class 4 (Sarah), Class 7 (Amy Brown), Class 8 (Ellen), Class 9 (Becky), Class 10 (Deborah), Class 11 (Marc), Class 12 (Rachael), Class 13 (Grace), Class 17 (Shirley),

There will be a wealth of other Christmas activities coming soon from the Santa Bus visiting on the 9th December, our Choir singing in the Grainger market on the afternoon of the 12th December, class trips to see Santa, class parties, a Christmas Celidh and more!

As we approach winter, can I remind you that we have some very vulnerable children in school that are prone to chest infections and have low immune systems. Can I please ask you to respect the 48 hours absence with sickness and diarrhoea and to ensure you do not send your child into school with a chest infection or any other serious ailments.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings
Head Teacher

22^nd October 2024

Dear Parent/Carers,

Just a few reminders and updates as we head to Half Term. Thanks again for all your support with our wonderful Harvest Festival last week. Sunnybank Community Centre were going to share the goods with some of the Benwell community caught up in the recent disaster, so thanks for your kindness.

Many thanks to those of you who are getting your children into school earlier and picking them up later, it is very much appreciated. Some Parent/Carers will receive a personal letter regarding their child’s attendance, don’t panic, you will have an opportunity to discuss the reasons that may be causing poor attendance. As you all know, it is very important that your child attends school every day unless there are exceptional circumstances.

If you are able to send in a £1 or spare cash for the ‘Pop-up Café’ this Thursday that would be great. The proceeds are going to support our Year 6 Residential next year. Also staff members John, Phil & Phil are running a Half Marathon over Half Term, again to raise funds for the same Year 6 residential if anyone would like to support their efforts. (justgiving.com/page/john-mosley or follow on our Facebook)

If you would like your child to come into school in fancy dress, or change into fancy dress for our Halloween Disco this Friday afternoon, please feel free to do so.

Dates for your diary include the following;

• Halloween ‘Pop-up Café’ on Thursday 24^th October
• Halloween Disco this Friday 25^th October 1:30pm, feel free to send your children in fancy dress
• Half Term, school closes Friday 25^th October 3:15pm and re-opens on Monday 4^th November 9.00am
• Bonfire Night Friday 8^th November 5:30pm – 7:30pm, tickets now on sale from Admin
• Remembrance Assembly Monday 11^th November 1:30pm – parents invited
• Chaii & Chaat Thursday 28^th November 5:30pm-7:30pm at Hadrian School – parents invited
• Christmas Wreath Making on Wednesday 4^th December 1:00pm in the School Hall, parents invited, contact the Admin Team to book a place (£25 per person)
• Christmas Fayre on Friday 6^th December & Elf Day for the children.

School breaks up for Half Term this Friday the 25^th October at 3.15pm, we hope you all have a lovely break and we look forward to seeing your children back on the 4^th November.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings

Head Teacher

 

14th October 2024
Dear Parent/Carers,

I hope you are all well and avoiding the colds going around school at the moment! Just a few updates and reminders of school procedures.

I appreciate you all need school to keep in close contact with your child’s progress, however, we are receiving a lot of phone calls in teaching time which then takes the Teacher from their core duties. So, if the call is not urgent we will inform the Teacher of your message and they will get back to you at lunchtime or after 3:30pm.

We are also struggling with the number of requests for children to finish school early. Can I remind you all the School day is 9:00am -3:15pm for all, unless there are pressing circumstances which we may consider. Picking children up early to then go to pick up your children from another school is not an appropriate reason, most mainstream schools have after school clubs so please take advantage of them.

Our Confident Parenting groups are back underway each Thursday in school. Can I remind you that these are not ‘drop-in’ sessions. The group needs the 6 weeks to establish relationships and trust between parents, so please commit to all 6 sessions.

Our Harvest Festival is this Wednesday. Please send in any fresh or tinned goods asap, all proceeds this year going to our local Pendower community centre at Sunnybanks.

Poppy Appeal
We now have items to purchase for Remembrance Day, please send a minimum donation of £1.00 per item if your child would like to purchase a poppy, wristband, keyring etc.

Dates for your diary include the following;

• Harvest Festival Wednesday 16th October 9:45am
• Halloween ‘Pop-up Café’ on Thursday 24th October
• Halloween Disco Friday 25th October 1:30pm
• Half Term, school closes Friday 25th October 3:15pm and re-opens on Monday 4th November
• Bonfire Night Friday 8th November 5.30pm – 7.30pm tickets now on sale from Admin
• Remembrance Assembly Monday 11th November 1:30pm
• Chaii & Chaat Thursday 28th November 5:30pm-7:30pm at Hadrian School, see poster on the back for more details
• Christmas Wreath Making on Wednesday 4th December 1:00pm in the School Hall, more details to follow.

Yours sincerely,
Chris Rollings
Head Teacher

24th September 2024
Dear Parent/Carers,

Can I just remind you of upcoming events, in particular the Coffee Afternoon for the McMillan Cancer Charity on Friday 27th September at 2:00pm in the School Hall and the Multi-professional Coffee Morning on Tuesday 1st October at 9:30am, also in the School Hall.

The McMillan and Maggie’s place Coffee Afternoon is very close to our hearts at the moment, as we have a number of colleagues who have recently or currently been facing a battle with cancer and aggressive cancer treatment. We would like to show support for these friends and colleagues and are asking for you to join us in a show of support for these excellent cancer charities. If you can’t make it you could send in cakes or a tombola prize, or send a £1 for your child to pop along and purchase something on your behalf.

We have timed the Coffee Afternoon so that many of you can join us and then take your own child home. If you do intend to do this can you please let your child’s Class Teacher know in advance so we can let the Local Authority Transport know of your plans.

Remember also that it is our Friends of Hadrian meeting tomorrow night, live or on zoom if you would like to join remotely?? Your support is very much valued and appreciated.

Dates for your diary include the following;

• Friends of Hadrian Meeting Wednesday 25th September 4:00pm-6:00pm live or on Zoom. New members always welcome
• Macmillan Coffee Afternoon 2:00pm Friday 27th September
• Multi-Professional Coffee Morning 9:30am Tuesday 1st October
• Harvest Festival Wednesday 16th October 9:45am
• Halloween ‘Pop-up Café’ on Thursday 24th October
• Halloween Disco Friday 25th October 1:30pm
• Bonfire Night Friday 8th November 5:00pm – 7:00pm
• Remembrance Assembly Monday 11th November 1:30pm

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings
Head Teacher

18th September 2024
Dear Parent/Carers,

Hello everyone. I hope your children have settled in well and you have all the information you need from school? Can I just remind you of upcoming events, in particular the Coffee Afternoon for McMillan Cancer Charity on Friday 27th September at 2:00pm in the School Hall and the Multi-professional Coffee Morning on Tuesday 1st October at 9:30am, also in the School Hall.

Dates for your diary include the following;

• Friends of Hadrian Meeting Wednesday 25th September 4:00pm-6:00pm live or on Zoom. New members always welcome
• Macmillan Coffee Afternoon 2:00pm Friday 27th September
• Multi-Professional Coffee Morning 9:30am Tuesday 1st October
• Harvest Festival Wednesday 16th October 9:45am
• Halloween ‘Pop-up Café’ on Thursday 24th October
• Halloween Disco Friday 25th October 1:30pm
• Bonfire Night Friday 8th November 5:00pm – 7:00pm
• Remembrance Assembly Monday 11th November 1:30pm

Can you help by sending in spare clothes, where appropriate pads and wipes, PE & swimming kits (named if possible), juice, fruit, healthy snacks for the classroom and a reminder that children should not wear jewellery in school including earrings for health & safety reasons.

Contact Details

Can you help us by ensuring we have two phone numbers in case we need to contact you about changes of address, medications, appointments etc. We will be sending out data collection sheets over the next few weeks to ensure we have all your up to date information.

Immunisations

The Immunisations Team will be in school at the 20th September. If you have booked your child’s immunisation non-line this will take place sometime on the 20th September.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings
Head Teacher

4^th September 2024

Dear Parent/Carers,

Welcome back and a very warm welcome to all of our new starters and their families who have joined our Hadrian family this week. I hope you have enjoyed the summer break, despite the weather, and as expected, the sun shines when we get back to school! Did you enjoy reading the summer edition of the Hadrian Herald? If any families would like to write a piece for the new magazine about your journey as a Parent, your views on school, your fundraising ideas for the new Hydrotherapy Pool, or any topic close to your hearts, please drop me an email.

There is so much to look forward to this term, including lots of exciting outdoor learning opportunities, Harvest Festival and later in the term Halloween and Bonfire Night.

Dates for your diary include the following;

• School Photographer Monday 16^th September
• Friends of Hadrian Meeting Wednesday 25^th September 4:00pm-6:00pm live or on Zoom. New members always welcome
• Macmillan Coffee Afternoon 2:00pm Friday 27^th September, more details to follow
• Multi-Professional Coffee Morning 9:30am Tuesday 1^st October
• Harvest Festival Wednesday 16^th October 1:30pm
• Halloween ‘Pop-up Café’ on Thursday 24^th October
• Halloween Disco Friday 25^th October 1:30pm
• Bonfire Night Friday 8^th November 5:00pm – 7:00pm
• Remembrance Assembly Monday 11^th November 1:30pm

 

Very soon you will be receiving your child’s timetable for the week so you know which days are PE or swimming etc. You will also be involved in conversations around your child’s immediate learning goals and therapeutic needs. Remember, you are welcome into school at any time during the week, all we ask is that if you require time to talk to the Teacher or Leadership Team you make an appointment so we can plan it into our diaries.

Can you help by sending in spare clothes, where appropriate pads and wipes, PE & swimming kits (named if possible), juice, fruit, healthy snacks for the classroom and a reminder that children should not wear jewellery in school including earrings for health & safety reasons.

It was so nice to welcome your children to school today, we will have a fun filled assembly on Friday to share our plans with the children and I look forward to catching up with you over the next weeks and months.

News from school

We are delighted to report that Zoe, our Massage Therapist, gave birth to a baby boy, Parker over the summer. Mother and baby are both doing well. We have also welcomed a new Teacher, Deborah Rushton to school and are delighted to see our Lauren Knox step into a Teaching role this term, best wishes to one and all.

Contact Details

Can you help us by ensuring we have two phone numbers in case we need to contact you about changes of address, medications, appointments etc. We will be sending out data collection sheets over the next few weeks to ensure we have all your up to date information.

Parent/Carer Training

Our training company HEADS is supporting parent/carer training opportunities again this year. All training is free of charge and is taking place at Hadrian School. If you would like to attend any of the training courses please contact school or email daniel.coffey@hadrian.newcastle.sch.uk, or david.palmer@hadrian.newcastle.sch.uk

Immunisations

The Immunisations Team will be in school at the 20^th September. If you have booked your child’s immunization non-line this will take place sometime on the 20^th.

SEND Transport

If you have any transport issues please contact the Local Authority SEND Transport Team on 0191 2774646

 

Yours sincerely,

Chris Rollings

Head Teacher