WE ARE ALL SENSORY BEINGS

 

We would like to thank everyone for supporting us in fundraising for this fantastic resource for Lisnagry School. It will further promote our positive school culture and climate in supporting everyone’s health and wellbeing.

Life in the world around has become very busy, stressful, and fast. Our day is full of sensory experiences from the moment we wake up to when we go to sleep. All our children are surrounded by noise during every waking moment.  This puts many of them at risk of auditory bombardment and high stress. We all respond to sensory information within our environment differently as we touch, move, see, hear, taste and smell things around us. Our new sensory space will benefit all our students, especially those who have been exposed to stress, anxiety, and those with specified sensory needs. Having a sensory space in school is even more important now, as we address the challenges created by Covid-19 as we look to support students behavioural and mental health needs as they return to normality. We have noticed children just have a lot more anxieties and worries, just the daily stresses, even just the fact of getting back into routine. Anyone of us can reach a breaking point and lose the ability to focus due to overstimulation. Our pupils will be more relaxed, calm and communicative after using the sensory space  and  will return to class ready to learn after an outburst or stressful event.

Over the past few months our In School Management Team and SET have been planning our new sensory space. From the outset, our goal is to provide all our school community with a quiet space generating a relaxing and calming effect.  It’s about giving the child “me time” and the experience in the sensory room will be very much child led.