Blog Author: Nicola Littler

We enjoyed using our own soft toys when learning about ordinal numbers. 

What a fab first week we have had in The Hangout. It is great to be back with our friends and in a routine again. 

In our art lesson, we used different media to explore and invent different lines. We used the media in different ways to create lines. We pressed hard and light, used the side of the media to see what happened. We had fun doing this in our sketchbooks. Great work everyone! 
 

The children have enjoyed the first two weeks back at school, we have been taking part in lots of different activities and enjoying being back into routines with our friends. 

This half term our PE lessons will focus on ball skills. Today’s lesson we started with moving around the hall in different ways and then using a ball, throwing and catching it. We then rolled the ball over a beanbag and balanced a ballon our hands.

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.