SEND Sensory Session: a Musical Adventure
Use your imagination to join in with an interactive story, travelling to Nigeria, singing a Yoruba song of welcome, and then onto Brazil in search of musical instruments to bring back. Have a go at playing the instruments you have chosen!
Maximum group size: 12 pupils
Sessions will encourage children to:
- Sit on the carpet, if appropriate (cushions available)
- Listen to and engage with a sensory story
- Experience and/or respond to a range of stimuli
- Touch and explore museum objects
- Take turns and share
- Make independent and supported choices
- Try something new
To complement your session please make sure you visit the Music Gallery and the Sound Garden in the Gardens.
To prepare your pupils for their visit please look at our Social Story for a preview of the Museum and to meet some of our Learning staff.
Resources
Workshop information
How to book
Booking a taught session includes a welcome briefing on arrival, timed access to a lunch space, cloakroom facilities and access to toilets for the exclusive use of school groups.
Contact us to make a booking:
schools@horniman.ac.uk
020 8291 8686
When you contact us please have ready:
– the name of the taught session you would like to book or topic you are studying,
– 1st/2nd/3rd choice of date and preferred session time,
– the number of pupils and adults attending.
Costs
Entrance to the Horniman Museum and Gardens is free of charge. Taught sessions and access to some exhibitions are charged for. We invoice after your visit.
The following charges apply:
£45 including VAT, £37.25 excluding VAT
We offer a bursary scheme for schools that meet a set criteria.
Planning your visit
See the School Trips page for other essential information including our risk assessment.
We are open from 10am-5.30pm. Entrance to the Museum and Gardens is free of charge but must be booked in advance by emailing schools@horniman.ac.uk.
We offer reduced educational rates for our Aquarium, Butterfly House, and Temporary exhibition. See the School Trips page for further information.
Charges apply to all children aged 3 years and over, and all accompanying teachers and adults, unless they are specific 1:1 carers.