The children made a colourful fruit salad using  strawberries, raspberries, and grapes. They carefully washed and cut the fruit into small pieces. Once the fruit salad was ready, the children enjoyed eating it together, proudly tasting the healthy snack they had prepared themselves.

The HUB children were thrilled when the farm animals visited our school, bringing a calm, sensory‑rich experience right to the playground. The children had the chance to meet a gentle calf, some sheep, some pigs, ducklings, rabbits and tiny fluffy chicks. Each animal offered a unique opportunity for touch, observation and confidence‑building, allowing every child to explore at their own pace. It was a joyful, hands‑on learning experience that filled the day with excitement, curiosity and plenty of heart‑warming smiles.

The children explored colour and texture as they used sponges to paint over large pre‑drawn tractor outlines. They eagerly dabbed, pressed, and swept the sponges across the paper,  choosing bright, bold colours to fill the different parts of the tractor. As they worked, they experimented with how the sponge changed the effect of the paint, noticing the patterns it     created and how the colours blended together. The activity   encouraged creativity, control, and enjoyment as the children brought the big tractors to life with vibrant, eye‑catching     designs.

This week, the children learned how food grows. We talked about farms and discovered that farmers plant seeds to grow the food we eat. The children then followed simple visual steps to plant their own seeds. They added soil to a pot, sprinkled seeds on top, watered them using spray bottles, and placed their pots on the windowsill to get plenty of light. Everyone enjoyed taking part and proudly talked about how “water helps plants grow” and “light helps plants grow.”

In English we have began reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The children engaged their sensory skills to investigate each of the fruits from the story. They touched, smelled, and examined the colours and textures, making real‑world connections to the book whilst developing their language and curiosity.

The children took part in a “farm‑to‑food” activity where they helped make a delicious tomato and red pepper soup. They carefully cut the fresh vegetables themselves, learning how to handle tools safely and work together. Once the soup was cooked, the children explored it using their senses—some chose to smell the rich aromas, others tasted the warm, vibrant flavours, and some simply enjoyed looking closely at the finished dish. It was a hands‑on experience that helped them understand where food comes from and how it’s prepared.

 

          

What’s at the bottom of the garden?

Today we explored different herbs that we could grow in the garden. We talked about which foods might include these herbs and then enjoyed smelling them. The children were able to say which herbs they liked the smell of and which ones they didn’t.

 

             

What’s at the bottom of the garden?

The HUB enjoyed a fruit and vegetable painting activity in the garden today! Prior to the creativity, we learnt all about how the different types of fruit and vegetable grow and what sufficiency they need to be able to grow effectively.

The children had an amazing afternoon in the sunshine!

 

In HUB 2 today, we have talked about the word BELONGING and the different ways we can feel that we belong. From this, we created our own unique maps, entitled THIS IS MY PLACE, which identify the places, groups, activities including our interests that provide us with a sense of belonging.

As you can see, our hobbies, interests, pets, families, friends alongside our special places ( school, home and favourite restaurants) all have a special place in our daily lives as they all make us feel that we belong.

 

This half-term, our theme in HUB1 is ‘Winter‘.

Today, the children enjoyed a water activity which represented the arctic – water with icebergs (that soon melted!) and animals that are found in the arctic!

Here, Niamh, Stanley, Isaac and Adam are loving the textures and imaginative play.

Firstly a big welcome back!

We hope you all had a lovely well rested Christmas break!

This week we have been settling back into school routine and structure and taking some time to get to know our lovely new pupils, making new friends and having lots of opportunities for free play and regulation!

In Math’s this week we did enjoy a lovely sensory activity, exploring shape and making patterns with flour! The children LOVE flour, the feel and texture and using it to mark make! Perfect for making patterns and shapes in, and it definitely looked a little bit like the snow falling outside! We explored squares, rectangles, triangles and circles and showed good understanding of some of these familiar shapes! Here’s a few snaps from one of our sensory lessons, lot’s of eye contact and engagement!

This afternoon the children in HUB 1 had a lovely afternoon exploring the great outdoors and getting crafty in the cabin! Our favourite kind of afternoon spent exploring our senses and regulating in the great outdoors!

We love anything that’s messy and involves paint, so Mrs. Buss’s idea to explore some bonfire themed colours and mix using sticks was just up our street! A great sensory session for encouraging again those fine motor skills and encouraging self expression and creativity! The children loved being outside in our very autumnal forest garden and explored the variety of leaves looking at colour, size and what happens as they fall to the ground! We had a special treat at the end of the day with some yummy hot chocolates and marshmallows, a great opportunity to sit together in our forest school circle and encourage some social and communication opportunities!

Here are some fab photos of the children highly engaged and involved in our forest afternoon…

As part of this morning activities we encouraged some independent mark making using a range of different materials to get those fingers moving! The children loved making this a sensory experience exploring the glitter and glue, even creating their own glittery gloopy firework sparkly mess! This activity allowed for some independent fine motor control and hand to eye coordination, whilst also encouraging some creative and emotional expression! The children loved spending a significant amount of time on this activity showing intense concentration and motivation! As you can see from the photos the children enjoyed this activity and stayed engaged for the full session!

A lovely calm start to our day with some stimulation and regulation through jigsaws! The boys were particularly engaged with these activities this morning and showed deep concentration and stayed with this activity for a prolonged period! They showed persisentence, determination, independence and support to one another as they accomplished their tasks and achievements of completed jigsaws!

Another great activity to keep those fingers and minds busy, promoting fine motor skills and turn taking with others! Sometimes it’s the simple activities which allow for the most learning opportunities…

This afternoon during our ‘curriculum time‘ the children explored Autumnal colours and manipulating paint with their hands and tools! We have been spending a lot of time in our outside cabin looking for signs of Autumn and the changes in the season, exploring the leaves and colours! Today we decided to paint our own Autumn tree, using the colours we had spotted from our nature expeditions!

The children loved creating trunks and branches with a brush, working on their fine motor skills and loved getting their fingers and hands messy for a sensory experience!

Here are a few snaps of some our HUB1 children taking part in our Attention Autism Barrell activity! The children enjoy this daily in our morning routine and have really improved in giving good eye contact and made huge progress with their listening and attention skills! The children wait in anticipation for the activities from the Barrell and the session promotes an abundance of opportunity for language and vocabulary development!

Below are some further snaps of our Math’s session looking at ‘more‘ and ‘less‘. We worked on counting out amounts visually and representing these amounts with the correct numeral. We looked at the terms ‘more’ or ‘less’ and the children enjoyed exploring more and less with conkers!

 

This afternoon in HUB1 we made our very own fairground chocolate apples, in celebration of Hull Fair week!

The children loved chocolate tasting and watching what happens to the chocolate when it heats in the microwave. We loved stirring the chocolate and exploring it’s texture once it had melted! The children had a go at independently dunking their apples and dipping in sprinkles to create the perfect yummy chocolate apples!

This was a great opportunity for engaging in a sensory activity, listening to the sounds of the microwave and sprinkles and smelling the scrumptious chocolate! It was also a great opportunity for language development and turn-taking, sharing and helping others!

We can’t wait to take them home tonight to have a go at tasting our delicious apples!

This morning in HUB1 we explored numbers to 10 and 20 working on our number recognition and counting out amounts. We enjoyed exploring autumnal counting objects and counting out amounts matching them to the correct numeral!

We all concentrated on this activity for a prolonged period and enjoyed the outcome!

The children in Hub 1 had a wonderful afternoon exploring our new cabin space and the beautiful garden area outside!

We had great fun getting messy in the mud kitchen, mixing potions with sticks and listening to the wind blow and rustling through the trees! A lovely calm afternoon outside in the fresh air connecting with nature and providing an opportunity for some great balancing skills on the logs!

Inside the cabin we enjoyed making some paper faces and decorating them with eyes, ears, nose, mouth and hair, exploring different faces as part of our ‘Magical Me’ topic! A great opportunity for some fine motor skill practice and lots of vocabulary and communication/ talking points!

Just a few more snaps from our lovely day out at East Hull Community farm…

 

The children have had a blast on their first week back Theodore loves looking at all the different colours and numbers in the book.He could count to 20

He played with the tube and did his morning exercise.

Connor loved doing his speech programme today He could chose the correct picture and really enjoyed posting it into the letter box

Elliot was so happy doing his exercise ,he was smiling and rolling all over .

Lola picked a book she enjoys and pointed to the words as Mrs Walker read them back to her

The children had lots of fun today making Jam sandwiches. They put their own butter on and then waited patiently for the jam. Afterwards they enjoyed eating them . Both the children then helped tidy up.

 

 

 

All the children loved our Friendship Group’.

They all talked about how nice it is to have friends and how important it is to have help each other.

They all managed to turn take and all enjoyed playing together.

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The Hub children have had a fabulous time this week, they have enjoyed all of the activities and a fabulous trip to the park!

                                              

We are so excited  for our children to see our fabulous Hub. Our new soft play area will defiantly be their favorite place to be.

Lots of sensory in our Sensory House and lots more fun activities for the children to see.

 

Costello Sport Centre – June 22nd 2023

We enjoyed a fantastic KS2 sports day! There was a great atmosphere and the children were excellent at being each others champion with everyone being the very best that they can be!

What an amazing day we had on Tuesday 4th July! We went adventuring in Dalby Forest taking in so much nature, demonstrating awe and wonder from second we stepped in the minibus to the moment we arrived back at school. A wonderful day, here are some lovely images for you to enjoy!

 

 

 

 

During our social choosing time today, these boys decided to dig out an old classic and were taught how to play it. The boys developed their use of coordinates, logic and strategy to try and beat their opponent whilst playing Battleships today.

 

 

We loved the bold colours and lines used by the Scottish Artist Steven Brown and we think you may have seen some of his famous images before, like this one taken from his website.

Brandon drew some beautiful animal images and then used colour to give them a Steven Brown inspired feel. Great work Brandon!

Raphael enjoyed using bold colours to bring his wonderful elephant sketch to life. Well done Raph!

We had a great afternoon at Pickering Park Aviary on Wednesday!

 

The Meerkats and tortoises were our favourites. We think the Meerkats enjoyed watching us just as much as we enjoyed watching them!

So many smiles, so many lovely photographs of us, enjoying each other’s company and friendship.

 

 

We have done lots of activities this week and have enjoyed the Sensory room, Soft play and the outside area,

 They have had lots of exercise and have enjoyed been very active. All the children joined in with the climbing and turn taking. The sun was shinning and this made the boys very happy.

 

Dates for your diary this half term 🙂

Summer 2 dates letter 2

Working in our beautiful school grounds in todays Art Lesson in the sun! Our objective was ‘really noticing’ as we spent time observing and sketching objects that captured our interests.

We looked amazing for our Rock/Pop Star day to support Viking FM’s Cash for Kids appeal. Thank you to all of our families for your continued support, the thought and effort in today’s outfits was amazing!

Here are a few snaps of us dancing, we are ‘Rolling on a River’, remembering the late Tina Turner with our classmate River, who tells us that he was named after this song!

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This week, we explored the features of a non-chronolgical report. We loved the Storm Whale story so decided that we would like to know more about the mighty whale. We worked in pairs to decide our title and subtitles and then researched our chosen areas of study. We demonstrated great research skills, independence and team work to complete this project are were really proud of our reports!

Over the course of two weeks, our 4 Year-Four HUB children visited Beverley Road Swimming Baths every afternoon. We loved visiting this beautiful building with its mosaic floors and unique viewing gallery. Every day, we made great progress and grew in confidence in the water. We learned a variety of swimming techniques and practiced safe rescue. A great fortnight with lots of resilience and perseverance and we are REALLY PROUD of you all!

We even spotted a decimal number on the pool wall, “Look Miss, just like what have been learning about in Maths!” 🙂

Today the sun was shinning so we all decided to get some lovely fresh air and some exercise.

The boys got over their fears and climbed the big frame independently.

Noah was so happy with himself when he got to the top he was beaming with the biggest smile we had ever seen.

Connor enjoyed all the equipment too.

He took our hand to push him on the swing. He loved the big slide and went down it confidently.

All the children enjoyed playing with all the equipment this week..

They all shared the scooters and helped each other if they needed help on them.

It has been a lovely sunny week this week so the children have been enjoying the outdoor area

Connor enjoys chalking and likes to make lots of patterns.

                  Noah also had his turn on the bikes.

It is lovely to see all the children using the resources and enjoying them.  Well done boys.

                                                                   

Connor came in this morning and went over to the mark making board and enjoyed making his very own picture.

.He was concentrating really hard to hold his pen. We sang Write dance together as he went along.

What an active morning Connor has had .

He has really started to use all the resources and has even got the jigsaw out and matched them all independently.

 

Thank you so much to Purple Pig Farm for teaching us how to handle and care for all the animals today.

This is such a treat for us to look forward to as we all love our animals.

We have such kind caring natures and hands!

             

Over the last few Art lessons, we have been exploring new techniques; from sketching with charcoal and pencil to splattering and scraping with paints. We are hoping to recreate the most almighty volcanic eruption in our final piece, so we are working towards creating some impressive marks!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s not just caterpillars and other minibeasts that we find at the bottom of the garden. We can grow lots of delicious food too.

Beautiful sitting, looking and listening skills demonstrated by our little treasures during our new story ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ by Vivian French and Alison Bartlett.

We are all going to enjoy this book!

                                           

We were able to discuss and sequence events of our story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ using Tales Toolkit.

Tales Toolkit is a framework for storytelling which is accessible for all our little treasures. The framework using clear symbols displaying character, setting, problem and solution allows us to be fully engaged in storytelling from start to finish. We used extra props and visuals to aide the sequence of events.

Our little treasures were able to identify that the caterpillar came first and the butterfly at the end. With support and help from their classroom environment they were able to count and sequence some of the food that the hungry caterpillar ate.

                                           

We were able to, with a little support, count and copy the pattern of Mrs Nageri’s caterpillar, using miniature sponge printing. We are so clever!

                                         

We loved our sensory messy play using paper mache to create a cocoon for our caterpillar. We then painted it using a large grown up paintbrush with Mrs Robinson.

He is now tucked up all nice and cosy. Sshhhhhh!!!!!

                                         

Just like all our little treasures, our caterpillar has grown into a beautiful butterfly.

We love the way the sun catches our stained glass butterflies, shining brightly.

                                         

On Monday he ate through one apple, but he was still hungry.

We enjoyed some apple printing to represent the food he ate on Monday.

                                         

On Tuesday he ate through two pears, but he was still hungry.

We enjoyed the sensory feel of the felt we used to make our pears, representing the food he ate on Tuesday.

                                           

On Wednesday he ate through three plums, but he was still hungry.

We enjoyed exploring our senses looking through the purple coloured cello to make our plums, representing the food he ate on Wednesday.

                                             

On Thursday he ate through four strawberries, but he was still hungry.

We used our glue to stick on some seeds we found outdoors to represent the seeds on our strawberries. This was the food he ate on Thursday.

                                           

On Friday he ate through five oranges, but he was still hungry.

We loved painting the bubble wrap to represent the texture of the oranges he ate on Friday.

                                             

On Saturday he had stomachache after eating through lots of yummy food. Can you see all the food he ate from our ‘Widgit’ visuals?

We used our scissor skills to cut out all the yummy food he ate on Saturday.   

On Sunday the caterpillar ate though one nice green leaf. He felt much better!

We enjoyed fork painting to represent our nice green leaf.

                                             

Great excitement in The Hub for our new topic ‘What’s at the bottom of our garden?’

We looked at the life cycle of a butterfly through our story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle.

We demonstrated good sitting, looking and listening during our visual representation of the story. Good understanding was displayed, through eye gaze and pointing, to answer all our questions.

                                           

After some inspiration from our story, we explored our outdoor area for some very hungry caterpillars using our magnifying glass.

                                           

Can you imagine the excitement when some real live caterpillars arrived in our Hub for us to look after!

                                           

We immersed our classroom to make our caterpillars feel at home. We made a number line caterpillar, paper mache cocoon and symmetrical patterned butterflies. 

                                           

 

In the run-up to the Coronation of King Charles, we took a look back through history at seven other Coronations that have happened over the last 200 years. We were able to talk about the sources of evidence, how we have some video and photographs but the older the coronation, we only have the artist’s impression of the events. We looked at how the formal clothes had not changed very much and talked about the regal colours and jewels that were used to mark such special occasions. The of course we had a little party of our own to mark this important time in our History!

To celebrate the coronation of KIng Charles III on Saturday 6th May our little Hubbers made our very own crowns fit for a King!

A gold tablecloth was draped over our working table where we sat together to make our crowns. We knew it was a special occasion as all our new sequins and jewels were laid on the table for us to use. They dazzled us with their beauty of rich colours and sensory textures.

Everyone in the school wore red, white and blue clothes, the same colours as our national flag, to show our support for our amazing country. Our National Anthem played during our activity.

We also joined in with our school activities including a ‘Royal Bake Off‘ and ‘Royal Tombola’ with our families.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

                                         

This week, these children were chosen to be on the GOLDEN TABLE at lunch for their amazing lunch time behaviour, manners and kindness towards others! Great News! Well done!

 

The boys have had a great time exploring the outside area.

Connor enjoyed making sandcastles and building bridges. He loved the digger trucks and drove around the sand on his knees.

 

Kojeen decided to be brave and go on the seesaw .He independently managed to go on and push himself up and down,

Well done Kojeen.

 

Connor wanted to build with the bricks today . He built a wall and he then counted with Mrs Rowbottom,

Great counting Connor.