Image of The Hangout - Sensory exploration
27 April 2023

The Hangout - Sensory exploration

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. 

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Image of The Hangout - PE Plus April 23
27 April 2023

The Hangout - PE Plus April 23

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. 
 

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Image of The Hangout - The day the ducks visited April 2023
20 April 2023

The Hangout - The day the ducks visited April 2023

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…

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Image of The Hangout - Summer 1 - Week 1
18 April 2023

The Hangout - Summer 1 - Week 1

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. 
 

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Image of The Hangout - Computing - Design Unit
23 March 2023

The Hangout - Computing - Design Unit

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.

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Image of The Hangout - Pixel Art
23 March 2023

The Hangout - Pixel Art

We have been creating digital art pictures using pixels. 


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Image of The Hangout - Exploring Vegetables
22 March 2023

The Hangout - Exploring Vegetables

Our focus has been around the story Oliver’s Vegetables. We visited the Concourse and went to the fruit and vegetable shop to buy vegetables. We bought vegetables that appeared in the book and explored them. We used our senses to explore the vegetables and talked about what we like and don’t…

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Image of The Hangout - Maths - Ordinal Numbers
9 March 2023

The Hangout - Maths - Ordinal Numbers

The Hangout have been learning ordinal numbers. We started with running races and ordering people, we then moved onto objects e.g. car races, animals queuing up, etc and ended with ordering events.

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Image of The Hangout - Attention Autism Stage 1 and 2
5 March 2023

The Hangout - Attention Autism Stage 1 and 2

Over the past couple of weeks, The Hangout have been enjoying stage 1 and stage 2 of attention autism (bucket time).  Children love these sessions and it is great to see how focused they are. 
Attention Autism is a learning approach that aims to help Autistic children develop attention and…

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22 February 2023

Digital Art Computing - The Hangout

This week in our computing lesson, we have been creating digital art. We have been learning to change the colour of individual pixels to accurately re-create basic artwork.

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Image of The Hangout - PE Plus
9 February 2023

The Hangout - PE Plus

In The Hangout, we have weekly PE Plus sessions. These sessions focus on the fundamental movement skills:

  • Running
  • Jumping
  • Coordination
  • Throwing
  • Catching
  • Kicking
  • Striking

 

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9 February 2023

Attention Autism

In The Hangout, we love our daily Attention Autism sessions. These sessions aim to develop natural and spontaneous communication skills through the use of visually based and highly motivating activities. 
 

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