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Dear Parents

Occasionally central government or Central Bedfordshire ask our children to complete a

survey. These can be on a range of topics including PE, Mental Health, curriculum coverage.

We have recently got the results from one of these surveys that showed us that we are ‘best

value’ in Central Bedfordshire for children feeling safe at school (focusing on bullying) and for

children having high self-esteem.

I know that children’s happiness and mental health is incredibly important and as a teaching

staff we have been looking closely at this area. We are really pleased to be helping the

Department of Education research strategies for improving children’s self-esteem and mental

health. We are also helping JIGSAW (Central Beds) run a research project to increase

children’s feeling of self-worth in the Early Years. Possibly the most exciting is news that the

University of Bedfordshire have asked to study how we promote children’s voice at Hadrian.

This made me reflect, one of the real strengths at Hadrian is our children’s attitude. They are

reflective, kind and motivated to make changes in the school. Our older children work hard to

make sure that younger children feel like they belong. I think that this culture of support and

empowerment has more of an impact than anything that we can do as adults. With this in

mind, I have handed my computer over to our student leadership group and they are

responsible for writing the rest of this article (different sections were written and added to by

different children and so the style might vary):

‘We are very proud to be students of this amazing school and enjoy our learning. One of the

things that we like about Hadrian is that we get to make suggestions on how to make the

school better. These are some of the things that we have started at the school:

Students of Hadrian Academy have the privilege of being able to run a club of our choice

such as: arts and crafts, sports and dance. You can run a club when you are in year five and

six and it means that you get to know the younger children and be a role model to them.

Every Friday morning, we run the whole school assembly. We have to be organised as we give

out certificates, share the scores of the house points and announce the attendance of

different classes. We even award the school bear, Bubbles.

We have many different rewards at Hadrian such as golden passes, star reader reward, splat

the teacher and many others! Our student councils decide on awards that will make children

excited. The Maths council invented the golden pass. It is a reward that involves your math

skills. You have to answer questions and if you answer most of them correctly you will get

invited to many different events.

1st March 2019

www.hadrianacademy.co.uk

office@hadrianacademy.co.uk

Our councils do lots of different things (Maths, Library, Technical Wizards, Arts, Sports Leaders,

House Captains, Prefects). You can be in a council from Year 3 but you have to apply. I

[Clara] am a technical wizard. We entered a competition (by making a video) and won

money. This meant we got to choose computers for the school. Then we wrote to Amazon and

kindly persuaded them that they should give us some electronics for our school. They invited us

on a tour and after the tour we got a robot and a kindle! The latest thing we have done is

started coding during council meetings, sometimes it can a bit hard but it’s always fun.

If you are a prefect you can get involved in many jobs, such as litter picking and the friendship

shed. Not only does litter picking help our school, it helps the environment too. Our friendship

shed ensures that no one is bored at playtime and lunchtime because it is full of exciting toys.

We helped decide the values that were most important at the school. I am the first values

ambassador for creativity. I [Jessica] was nominated by other children and now I look out for

children being creative. When I have chosen 6 children, I have a meeting with Miss Bennett

and then give out their prizes in assembly. This helps younger children because they will be

happy to get a prize and then they will remember that prize and be good and more creative.

In conclusion, we are very thankful for all the children. Thank you, Hadrian Academy student

leadership panel.

Hannah Bennett

Spring Term 2019 7.3.2019 EYFS visit Tring Details on ParentMail

7.3.2019 LAMDA Exams

7.3.2019 Yr4 Trip to The Grove Talking Tales Details forwarded by ParentMail

8.3.2019 World Book Day Dress up as your favourite book

character

8.3.2019 Bhangra Beauty Evening

12.3.2019 Grafham Meeting Yr 3 3.15pm Mrs Hanson’s Room

13.3.20198 National Sing-Up Day

15.3.2019 Red Nose Day 2019 Details to follow

18.3.2019 Year 4 visit St Albans Cathedral Details and payment available on

ParentMail WK beginning

1.4.2019 Year 6 Mock SATs Week

1.4.2019 Priory Church EYFS Details to follow

3.4.2019 The Railway Children M and M Theatre Production. Children

must be accompanied by an adult

5.04.2019 Last Day of Term Easter Break (8th – 23rd April)

Break for Easter 8th April – 22nd April

Summer Term 2019

22.4.2019 Bank Holiday No School

23.4.2019 First Day of Summer Term Children return to school

02.5.2019 Polling Day EYFS Closed WK beginning

13.05.19 YR 6 SATS Week

21.5.2019 World Orienteering Day Details to follow

10-14.6.19 Kingswood Residential Year 6 Payment via ParentMail

25.6.2019 Tower of London Yr 1 Details and payment via ParentMail

27.6.2019 Tower of London Yr 2 Details and payment via ParentMail

Autumn Term 2019

2 &3

9.2019

Teacher training Days School Closed

The Friday morning mile proved a great success and is to

continue again this school year. Can we ask all parents that

they be respectful to the privacy of our neighbours when

using the pathway during the Friday Morning Mile.

Parking at Hadrian Avenue and surrounding streets/entrances –

Please always park considerately even if running late and do not park over

our neighbour’s driveways or the grass verges. We do not wish to upset or

inconvenience our neighbours who have on occasion been unable to

access their own driveways. This affects both the wellbeing of our local

residents and the safety of our children, walking to and from school. Also

please watch your speed in the vicinity of the school and to always be

cautious of children.

Thank you.

We shall be celebrating World Book Day on

Friday 8th March. Children can come to

school dressed as their favourite book

character, bringing books to life in our

corridors. There will be prizes for the best

costumes across the key stages.

Current Year 3 Grafham trip 7th – 9th October 2019.

We are holding an information session on Tuesday

12th March at 3.15pm for children and parents who

may be interested in going to Grafham Water in

year 4 in October 2019.

More information regarding the activities

programme and how the children will spend their

time during their visit will be given during this

meeting and the presentation forwarded for those

of you unable to attend.

Despite a cold and rainy start to the day parents and

students turned up to enjoy our charitable event in aid of

Sign2Sing. Hot chocolate was served followed by children

singing and signing along to ‘The Greatest Day of our Lives’.

Thank you for your donations which helped raise £185 for

a worthy cause.

Bhangra Beauty Evening

Friday 8th March

From 7pm

£3.00 a ticket which includes one

treatment.

Other treatments, stalls and refreshments will be available on the

night for an additional cost.

If you are a female business owner and

would like to have a stall at this event

please contact me on

Nichola.harwood@hadrianacademy.co.uk

Central beds College students - beauty treatments included in

ticket price - mini manicure, mini pedicure, threading

Yankee Candles - Sarah Norris

Bespoke cakes by Sasha

Luxe & Co Glitter Bar

Beauty by Jade (treatments are at additional costs) treatments

include massage, gel nails and more.

Refreshments available at additional costs

non stop Bhangra exercise dance class

More stalls to be announced

Track suits/lounge wear

are a must for the

evening - especially to

enjoy the Bhangra

exercise dance class

available from the school office

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More Accelerated Readers

Word Millionaires! Our first 3,000,000 Word

Millionaire

We are really pleased to welcome our new members Joshua, Julia, Kelvin, Liam,

Prajavan, Sufyan and Tobias to the exclusive Accelerated Readers Millionaires Club.

Keep reading and checking your word count after each book and you too could

join the Millionaires Club! Enjoy your reading.

Awarded to Darrell

2,000,000 Word Millionaires Well done to Jan, Nasri and Ola.

Talented Technicians Visit

On Thursday 24th January our student voice group- the Talented Technicians were able to go

and explore the technology behind your everyday Amazon delivery. They were welcomed into

the packaging factory and instantly they were met with the sounds of conveyor belts and robots

doing their jobs. The whole system relies on robotics that have been programmed to move and

scan independently. It was a very clever sight to see! The children were able to package up their

own box and had great fun directing the machines to produce wet tape to the exact length they

needed. Once the children had finished their journey around the factory, they were given a huge

surprise – a kindle fire and a dash-dot robot. These gifts mean the children can begin to program

their own robotics back at school!

Hadrian Choir

Twenty six members of Hadrian’s choir used two days of their half term to go to Paris and share

their love of singing.

They had an amazing time performing on the stage at Disneyland Paris, and made a superb

sound. They also sang at a famous children’s hospital, where the patients and nurses happily

mouthed along the French version of popular songs and applauded energetically at the end.

Needless to state the children also managed to go on many rides and visit some famous

places in Paris. Many thanks to all helpers who helped to keep the children safe and give them

a fun time.

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In Year 2 the children thoroughly enjoyed learning all about how to stay safe and be kind when

using the internet. The children all wrote kind comments about each other on their t-shirts and

then wore them with pride for the rest of the day. The children said it made them feel happy and

good about themselves.

Children in year 1 also designed their own t-shirts using nice and

positive words and images.

Year 3 created different 3D shapes using modelling materials in Maths.

In English year 3 investigated a crime scene involving missing dogs and jewels. We looked

around the classroom for clues and tried to predict what might have happened. In the

afternoon we found out that Mrs Foster’s dog had stolen the jewels! He bought them back for

us and we had a fun time playing with him for the afternoon.

Year 4 experience the

In Year 4 we have had an exciting few weeks exploring what life might have been like for people

living in the Early Bronze Age. We took some inspiration from the ‘Beaker People’ and tried to

make clay beakers just like they would have. These pots can be found in Bronze Age burial sites

and they give archaeologists clues as to what life may have been like. It was quite a challenge

to mould the clay into the correct shape but we managed it. Decorating the pots was a delicate

job and it really made us appreciate how skilled the ‘Beaker People’ must have been.

Puppet making in year 5

We ended our topic , ‘All the Fun of the Fair’, by making puppets. Year 5 enjoyed choosing

their materials and the challenge of using effective techniques to fasten the parts together to

make it strong.

Rakshabanda!

As part of year 5 religious education work, we made ‘rakhis’ which are like friendship bracelets

that Hindu sisters give to their brothers. Some children wanted to keep theirs but the message is

to be generous and caring to each other. It was lovely to see the concentration they put in

and the help they gave each other.