An EYFS Teacher’s Guide to Immersive, Multicultural Winter Learning Early years children are natural anthropologists, endlessly curious about how others live, celebrate, and find joy. This unit transforms your setting into a kaleidoscope of winter light, where children discover that December darkness is illuminated differently around the world. By exploring 12 lesser-known winter festivals, we … Read more
Christmas Craft Activities Picture this: it’s the week before winter break, glitter is somehow already in your hair (and it’s only Monday), and you’ve got 25 eager faces waiting to create holiday magic. Whether you’re teaching neurotypical students, supporting diverse learners, or working with mixed-ability groups, finding Christmas crafts that work for everyone can feel … Read more
Lapland UK Accessibility Guide for Autism-Friendly Visits Welcome to the world of Christmas, where today we’re telling you about the enchanting experience of Lapland UK, but with a focus on making it a magical trip for our autistic children. In this article, we’ve sought to bring you the top tips to ensure a visit to … Read more
A Jolly Good Time with Santa at the Margate Caves Grotto. Ho, ho, ho! Gather ’round, fellow parents, because I have a festive tale to tell! If you’re looking for the ultimate Santa grotto experience in Kent, then look no further than the Margate Caves. This year we took our little elves aged 3 and … Read more
The holidays present a magical time of year for classrooms to engage students with joyful learning activities. An Elf on the Shelf is the perfect way to add festive excitement while creatively reinforcing academic skills and concepts. Having an elf appear overnight to leave behind math games, science experiments, reading activities, and everything in between … Read more
A Free Christmas Sensory Story You might be Santa forms part of our “You might be” style sensory story collection. These stories are based on becoming the character by adding props or a costume. They are super simple and designed to appeal to as wide a range of learners and curriculum topics as possible. To … Read more
Jingle All the Way to a Christmas Word Wall List The holiday season provides a fun opportunity for young learners to build their vocabulary through exposure to a festive new words list. There are so many joyful activities centring around the sights, sounds, tastes and traditions of Christmas time. Why not capitalise on this natural … Read more
Winter Wonderland – Christmas Sensory Song For information about delivering sensory stories please see our main Free Sensory Story page. This is not technically a Sensory Story but we will be using the lyrics to the song “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” and linking each line with a sensory resource or action. You will know … Read more
Free Christmas Sensory Story for PMLD/SLD pupils Slightly different from a more traditional sensory story Are You an Elf Christmas Sensory Story is one of our free “Dressing up” Sensory Stories. Throughout the story the learner will become an Elf through the addition of props and dressing up. As with any activity the storyteller needs … Read more
Here we have 24 suggested Advent picture books to use in a literacy based advent calendar this Christmas. I like using this level of book as you can easily adapt them for a range of special educational needs. I have used all of these Christmas books either at home or with my classes at school. … Read more
Multi-Sensory Christmas Carols These multi-sensory Christmas songs take the concept of sensory stories and apply them to traditional Christmas songs. Using a range of sensory stimuli we reinforce the key elements of the songs and bring them to life! To aim is to enthuse our sensory learners and enrich the experience for all those taking … Read more
Christmas and the holidays can be a trying time for our young people. Lights and decorations have been up since mid November, Mince pies and decorations were in the shops before halloween and the Coca-cola truck is already on tour.
It’s the time of year for buying my daughter’s teacher a Christmas gift. “What does Mr C like?” I ask. “Good children.” comes the earnest reply. These are out of stock. But it did start me thinking that between the boxes of quality street and “World’s best teacher” mugs our students will have given us … Read more
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