Make A Post Christmas Fidget Box Using Your Christmas Decorations

Whatever you’ve got, make your post-Christmas fidget box together and have fun playing with it! It may also help the transition from full-on ‘deck the halls’ back to ‘normal’ again, by keeping a few nice Christmassy items to hand.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: A Story of Additional Needs Inclusion

How can you use the story and song of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to help the children and young people you journey with to change from bullying, marginalising, and isolating their peers with additional needs to understanding, loving, and accepting them?

Why The Christmas Story Is Good News For Children With Additional Needs Too

As we remember the nativity story it might be hard to imagine how this familiar scene can bring good news to children with additional needs and their families. Here’s eight reasons why we should think differently though…

How The John Lewis Christmas 2021 Advert Showcases Inclusion (Again!)

They have done it again! Watching the John Lewis Christmas 2021 advert had me welling up in tears as I saw, once again, a story of inclusion unfolding before me. Like in 2019 with the story of Edgar the dragon and his friend Ava, the new advert showcases how to be inclusive of someone who … Continue reading How The John Lewis Christmas 2021 Advert Showcases Inclusion (Again!)

12 Days Of Additional Needs Christmas

Traditionally, the twelve days of Christmas start on Christmas Day and run on until January 6th which is ‘Epiphany’ or ‘Three Kings’ Day, the day that marks the arrival of the three wise men in the nativity story. It’s also usually the day when all the Christmas decorations come down.I thought it would be fun to … Continue reading 12 Days Of Additional Needs Christmas

So Here It Is, ‘Merry Christmas’ Everybody’s Having Fun?

This time of year, it’s hard to escape from the deluge of Christmas tunes; whether it’s on the radio, in shops, in TV adverts, the same old songs are everywhere. Probably the most recognisable is that 1970’s classic from Slade, ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’…Hearing it again for the millionth time today, the chorus of the song broke … Continue reading So Here It Is, ‘Merry Christmas’ Everybody’s Having Fun?