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MESSY PLAY
At The Hospital School we aim to give the children the same opportunities they would have in their home schools.
One way to do this is through messy play. This helps children to develop coordination and motor skills. The sensory experience helps them to understand their senses. They like to explore how things feel, look and smell and how they can change this.
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Elodie loved diving through the water beads to search for objects, she could then match these to the initial sounds she was learning. She found it funny watching the beads bounce everywhere when she pushed her hands into the pots.


Jake found it hilarious to mix disgusting combinations of food together. He noticed how the colours and smell changed. Each time he made a erent combination he said “YUCK!” and stuck his tongue out whilst giggling.
Florentina was fascinated when mixing cornflour with water. She said “my hands feel rubbery now. The flour’s all gone, I can’t even feel it now. When you squish it together it feels like water”. She then added ducks and decided that she needed to add more water too, to make them float.
Niamh enjoyed creating di erent potions. The first one we made by adding water to silver paint. Niamh dropped spooky creatures into the potions and was amazed as they disappeared when they sank. Niamh also liked to add various colours to baking powder and vinegar and watch them explode!





Florence retold ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ using small world characters. Here you can see her taking the family through the ‘Splish Splash river’. She also liked digging for treasure in cloud dough.