Blog Author: Nicola Littler

Wow! The Hangout absolutely loved visiting the local fire station. What a great experience for our children. They were amazed to see and use some of the equipment. Some even saying they want to be a firefighter. 

The Hangout visited the Concourse, we first went to the pirate ship to burn off some energy and for a sensory break, this supported us with climbing, crawling, sliding and having fun with our peers.  We then went to Home Bargain to buy an item of choice. It was hard to choose something with the…

Our first visit to the library we explored the library and read a couple of stories.

During our second visit to the library we had a structured visit with Angela. The Hangout navigated their way through the library, took part in a scavenger hunt, explored different books, made a book mark…

This week has not only been about fun and adventure but also about gaining valuable life skills and independence.

Each activity has contributed to our personal growth and understanding of the world around us.

We have walked around and investigated our local area; we loved our visit to the…

During Attention Autism we used skittles to experiment with and make a rainbow. We also had fun making our own. Great fun! 

In The Hangout we love to celebrate when someone has a birthday, we enjoy social activities like sitting at the table to eat party food. This also gives us an opportunity to try new things to eat. We enjoy singing happy birthday and making the birthday person feel special. Pass the parcel also…

Today we learnt about Earth Day, we talked about our planet and how we can look after it better. We made an Earth Day pledge of what we will do to improve how we looked after our planet. Some of us also did some litter picking on the playground. Great work.

Some of our Hangout children enjoyed a trip to Liverpool. We experienced the bus, train, open top bus and a little look around the art gallery. What great fun we had!

The Hangout have enjoyed the lead up to Easter.  They have enjoyed Easter crafts, the Easter story, squirting the eggs with water and winning Easter chocolate. We also celebrated a birthday with a little party and treats!

We have enjoyed an Easter themed Attention Autism. How eggciting! 
 

The Hangout guys created their own design for their gingerbread person’s T-shirt. They talked about identifying similarities between people in their class and discussed ways in which they are the same as their friends.

This week in our Jigsaw lesson, The Hangout have been learning about different types of medicines that can help us. We also had a good chat about medicine safety. The children were really sensible. Great work.