Course curriculum

  • 1

    The Sensory Festival 29 November 2024

    • What is the Sensory Festival?

  • 2

    Sensory Resources and Environments

    • A sensory resonance pipe with Richard Hirstwood

    • Sensory Christmas with Lynne Castle

    • ‘Safe Spaces - Big Impact: tools to support neurodiverse and high needs learners’ with Clive Smith

    • The Inclusive Classroom with Bex Watton

    • The Four A’s: available, appropriate, accessible, achievable with Richard Hirstwood

    • Sensory ChatGPT with Lynne Castle and Richard Hirstwood

    • Making a sensory salad spinner with Richard Hirstwood

    • Making a sensory salad spinner with Richard Hirstwood THE EASY WAY

    • Creating small environments to make play and the curriculum multisensory and accessible! with Simply Sensory

    • Sharing Sensory Ideas with Lynne Castle

    • A Holographic Shower Curtain with Richard Hirstwood

    • JBL Go 3 a fabulous vibration speaker with Richard Hirstwood

    • How can Hirstwood Training help you? Our 'live & online' events for 2025!

    • ‘Stuck’ In The Sensory Room? With Sensory Soup

    • B & M White Boxes with Richard Hirstwood

    • The Gove Light Curtain with Richard Hirstwood

    • A Fantastic Spinning Light for Neurodiverse Learners with Richard Hirstwood

    • The Wheel of Fortune: Session 1 - 29 November

  • 3

    Cognition & Learning

    • Why do we love to spin? with Shelia Thelen

    • Where have we come from? Where shall we go? with Les Staves

    • How can Hirstwood Training help you? Our Online Learning Bundles in 2025!

    • How do I maximise opportunities for communication across the day? with Dawn Brown

    • Coping, managing and leading in a SEN classroom with Nick Sheffield

    • Cinderella as a Massage Story with Mary Atkinson

    • How to use podcasting to develop learning with Adam Millichip

    • R.E and 'Why?' Stories with Lynn McCann

    • Making Learning Stick: Turning Memory into Fun and Meaningful Experiences with Dr Sarah Moseley

    • ‘Exploring RE and Faith through the Senses’ with Victoria Navin

    • Subject Specific Teaching - a discussion

  • 4

    Literacy & Stories

    • ‘Top 5 Tips for Telling Sensory Stories’ (in the style of ‘Top of the Pops!) with Pete Wells

    • ‘Sensory Stories. Are they sensory or are they stories – because they can’t be both!’ with Peter Imray

    • Creating New Stories from Old: How to use folktales to create new sensory stories with Ailie Finlay

    • How to transform a familiar story into a sensory experience with Caroline Hill

  • 5

    Wellbeing

    • Breathing: supporting learners mental health and wellbeing! with Sarah Hall

    • 5 top tips to support the wellbeing of learners with complex needs! with Ann-Marie Walker

    • Diets and Autism: what’s the story with autistic children, food and behaviour? The latest thinking with Chris Barson

  • 6

    The Senses

    • Ai Podcast 'Vision for Doing' a book review

    • Ai Podcast: an overview of the NAS Guide 'Sensory Strategies'

  • 7

    Free Stuff!

    • Further information for you: The Hirstwood Training Newsletter!

    • Flo Longhorn - Free Resources

    • Further information for you: Hirstwood Training Blogs!

    • PMLD Link - further information for you!