For Christmas 2024, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is introducing sensory bags for young visitors to Blists Hill Victorian Town with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
For Christmas 2024, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is introducing sensory bags for young visitors to Blists Hill Victorian Town with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities .During 2023, 383 pupils from 36 SEND schools visited IGMT’s museums, along with hundreds of children and young people who came with their families.
This is the second new initiative the Trust, a heritage conservation and education charity, is implementing during Christmas 2024 for children and young people with SEND. This year the Trust is hosting its first Calm Christmas Grotto adapted to children and young people with SEND. From 18 and 22 December there will be sessions dedicated to families with children or young people with SEND, or to schools or other similar support organisations with a SEND provision.
Andrea Nelson, Community Engagement and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Manager at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust said: “We have been really excited about the arrival of the new sensory bags and are delighted to be able to introduce them for our Victorian Christmas Weekends, some of the busiest weekends of the year. Families love Blists Hill but we know that for children and young people with SEND the experience can be overwhelming.
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