SEND Explore Your Way Relaxed Days

Activity Description

Explore your way on our special relaxed days for visitors with SEND, taking place on Monday 4 August and Monday 18 August.

Explore your way on our special relaxed day! Great for visitors with SEND and their friends and families. Museum sounds will still be turned on but turned down and visitor numbers on this day will be reduced to help everyone experience the Museum in a more relaxed environment. Enjoy sensory storytelling where Roald Dahl stories will be bought to life with visual prompts, objects, sound, movement and smells. SEND resources including Explorer Kits and Quiet Space Kits will be available to borrow for free.

We recommend booking in advance to avoid disappointment! Our tickets are annual passes, meaning you can visit as many times as you’d like within a year.

Mon 4 August – Mr Wormwood’s Junkyard Cars workshop
At 10.30am, 12pm, 1.30pm, and 3pm
Enjoy a relaxed, reduced capacity workshop and make your own car. Everyone gets a set of wheels and axles as a base and then you can build with recycled materials from there.
£5 per participant

Mon 18 August – Goodies and Baddies Clay Creations workshop
at 10.30am, 12pm, 1.30pm, and 3pm
Enjoy a relaxed, reduced capacity workshop and make and sculpt a couple of characters out of clay, one big baddie and one small hero! Just like Miss Trunchbull and Matilda. Take time to play with the clay, then mould and shape it into your figures.
£5 per participant

Both days: SEND Guided Countryside Trail – not wheelchair accessible, 11.30am.
This walk will take place on narrow pavements, tarmac road, uneven footpath surfaces, through fields and woodland. Please wear suitable walking shoes (no flipflops) There could be mud. The paths are not heavily overgrown but there might be nettles and brambles to avoid. The walking on this trail is fairly flat but there is a hill – to get a great view – and then a downhill bit. There is no seating on this walk but we take our time and stop for breathers on the way.

Access: The walk takes participants out into the countryside around GM and is not wheelchair accessible and is unsuitable for buggies.
£5 per participant (carers free), approx. 45 minutes.

Both days: SEND Guided Village Trail – wheelchair accessible, 2pm.
This walk will take place on narrow pavements, uneven footpath surfaces and through the Buryfields playground. Please wear suitable walking shoes (no flipflops). The walking on this trail is fairly flat. There is the option of seating at three of the stops on this walk (near the library and in the Buryfields ground). We will take our time and stop for breathers on the way.

Access: The walk takes participants around the village of GM and is wheelchair accessible and suitable for buggies
£5 per participant (carers free), approx. 45 minutes.