The Hangout

Today The Hangout and a few other children enjoyed a visit from Curious Critters. What an amazing experience to see, hold, stroke and talk about these amazing creatures.  It was great to see a millipede, cockroach, scorpion, snake, leopard gecko, skinny pig, tarantula and owl up close! Some of the…

The Hangout travelled to Manchester on the bus and train, it was a great journey. We enjoyed exploring Manchester Museum. 

What a lovely morning The Hangout have had! We walked to the concourse to look at the graffiti art work. Back at school, Mrs Simpkin showed us how to create graffiti art using material and chalks. We also looked at pictures of other graffiti art and watched videos, including The Hangout sign being…

In The Hangout, we love our daily Attention Autism sessions and have recently started Stage 3 along with Stage 1 and 2.

• Stage 1: The Bucket to Focus Attention.
• Stage 2: The Attention Builder.
• Stage 3: The Interactive Game - Turn-Taking and Shifting Attention.

In The Hangout we have been practising our cutlery skills using play dough.

Over the next few weeks, The Hangout are looking after caterpillars and will be watching how they transform from tiny caterpillars into beautiful butterflies. 
 

In The Hangout we love our weekly sensory sessions. During these sessions we explore different foods with our senses. This week we explored piccalilli, mint sauce, cucumber and pickled onion monster much. 

Children in The Hangout love their weekly PE Plus sessions. During these sessions they develop their fundamental skills. They enjoy improving their jumping, hopping, running and balancing skills. 
 

What a lovely, therapeutic afternoon we had when Reception’s ducklings visited The Hangout. We loved watching the ducklings moving, one which had just hatched. We carefully handled them, fed them and had a go at drawing them. Some children even built a little play pen for them and added toys for…

The Hangout children and staff are happy to be back and into a routine. We have enjoyed getting stuck in the past two days. We have been working hard with reading, handwriting, art, plus lots more, including socialising with our friends. 
 

Our new computing unit is ‘Design.’ Our first task involved designing an animal shelter and our second involved designing a treehouse. Lots of fun was had, the children were very creative in their choice during the design process.

We have been creating digital art pictures using pixels.