What We Learned: SEND Exclusive Sessions

At our most recent Have Your Say and Play event, families were asking about other places they can take their children for SEND exclusive Sessions. A lot of families tell us that what we are offering is a unique experience where you can feel more relaxed – everyone at the session understands your child’s behaviour and the Parent Carer Forum is there to listen to them. Our free monthly event is our chance to meet parents from Kingston and educated locally and talk to them about matters that affect them. Everyone on the Parent Carer Forum Committee is a SEND parent too and it is very affirming experience to be around parents who just get it and so here is a list of places that run SEND children sessions (some have costs attached)

Play Sessions

Yorda Family Play Project sessions are exclusively for families who have a child with  a disability to enjoy the playhouse. Yorda also has a great forest area which is often available to play in – they also run holiday play sessions Family Play Project – Yorda Adventures

All Aboard Club run inclusive train-play sessions for autistic, ADHD and SEND children, where they can build their confidence, develop their social skills and just be themselves.

 Play sessions – All Aboard Club

Skylarks run a series of face to face and online events for children with SEND, they have regular play sessions at the Crossway Centre in Richmond on Tuesdays and some Fridays Skylarks – Home

TAG Youth Club have Youth Club activities every day of the week for young people aged 8  – 25 Home | TAG Youth Club

Rainbow Leisure Centre Play Park, Epsom

Rainbow Leisure Centre offer an inclusive SEND Play session every Thursday between 3:45 to 5:15pm or 4 to 5:30pm  for children aged 3 months to 10 years old with special educational needs. Rainbow Leisure Centre | Epsom Gym, Swimming Pool & Classes | Better

Have Your Say & Play from Kingston PCF – a chance to meet and chat with parent carers at the YMCA Hawker Centre one Sunday a month kingstonpcf.co.uk/events

Swim Sessions

The Malden Centre offer monthly SEN Inflatable pool sessions designed for children with additional needs, offering a fun and inclusive swimming experience. email at enquiries@themaldencentre.co.uk or visit the booking link  https://pfpleisure-pochub.org/LhWeb/en/public/bookings

Guildford Spectrum offer midweek SEND Sessions SEND Sessions | Guildford Spectrum every Wednesday, term time only from 4:00pm to 6:00pm, they will have monthly Sunday sessions til the end of the year.

Trampolining Sessions

Jump-In trampoline sessions offer SEND sessions Monday 6 – 7pm, these quieter times are run with no music and low lighting ES – SEN Session – Jump In Adventure Park Esher

Sutton Sports village offer SEND Jump Sessions Wednesday evenings, 4pm – 5:30 or 5:30pm – 7pm parent carers need to supervise younger children Sutton Trampoline and Play Park | Book Trampolining in Sutton |Better

Outdoor Pursuits

Albany Outdoors offer a series of courses specifically designed for those with SEND

AfC Info website – Kingston and Richmond :: Community Information / Information and advice / Albany Outdoors – an Achieving for Children provider / Inclusion and special educational needs and disability
All these sessions are ones we have found out about locally or at a reasonable distance – if you know of a good service we are missing please let us know help@kingstonpcf.co.uk – we try to regularly share these sessions on our Facebook too. Don’t forget there is a lot of information on the Local Offer Events Page AfC Info website – Kingston and Richmond :: SEND Local Offer / What’s On / Search Results