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September 03, 2025
Sensory Equipment are so much more than pieces of equipment: they’re essential resources that create inclusive and supportive learning environments for students who might otherwise struggle in educational settings.
For children with sensory processing disorders, autism, ADHD, or anxiety, sensory tools can transform the classroom experience. They enhance cognitive development, emotional regulation, focus, and engagement, bringing benefits to students with diagnosed needs and the wider school community.
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August 28, 2025
Children and young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often face unique behavioural challenges linked to the way they process sensory information. These challenges can affect focus, emotional regulation, social interaction, and overall learning readiness.
Sensory rooms are one way to provide meaningful support for people experiencing these challenges. These spaces, thoughtfully designed to deliver tailored sensory input, offer opportunities to self-regulate, calm down, and re-engage. When built around the individual needs of their users, sensory rooms can become powerful tools for reducing distress and encouraging more positive, engaged behaviour.
By targeting specific sensory needs, schools and therapeutic settings can offer a calming retreat, an energising break, or a space for focused
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August 28, 2025
At SpaceKraft, we’ve been designing, manufacturing, and installing Sensory Rooms for over 30 years. Our experience has shown us how powerful they can be in supporting people of all ages and abilities.
Sensory rooms are carefully designed spaces that offer controlled sensory experiences through light, sound, texture, and movement. The concept was originally developed for therapeutic settings, but they are now increasingly used in schools, early years settings, and community spaces.
These rooms offer particular benefits for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and mental health challenges, thanks to their ability to support emotional regulation, focus, and wellbeing. Whether used for calming, stimulation, or skill-building,
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August 28, 2025
Multi-sensory rooms are specially designed spaces that use light, sound and specialist sensory equipment to create an environment that can be is used for either interaction or relaxation They’ve been found to be of great benefit, in not just for special schools but also mainstream ones, as they have children with different special educational needs (SEN) such as sensory processing disorders, autism, ADHD and anxiety. Traditionally used in Special Schools, they are also now proving to be of benefit in Mainstream Schools, to help meet the needs of Neurodivergent pupils. he most recent figures published by the Government’s Special Educational Needs in England state that
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August 28, 2025
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health challenges affecting children and young people today. According to NHS Digital, one in five kids aged 8 to 16 in England had a probable mental disorder in 2023, with anxiety being a leading concern.
In schools, anxiety can have a profound impact on a pupils ability to learn, engage, and thrive. And anxiety can stem from all sorts of places, whether linked to the classroom or not: social worries, academic pressure, sensory overwhelm, or neurodivergent processing,to name but a few. .
With anxiety becoming a daily reality for many educators, this
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February 08, 2021
The Gurgly Magic of Bubble Tubes - What’s your favourite bubble tube story?
A (very) long time ago I was privileged to be given the task of setting up a specialist nursery class for children with profound and complex learning difficulties. I look back with amazement at that time as at the start I had little idea of what I was doing. I quickly learnt!
I was lucky enough to obtain a grant from the RNIB to set up a Sensory Room, and my favourite piece of equipment in that resource was an Interactive Bubble Tube. It was the multi-sensory nature of the bubble tube that appealed to me, and that engaged many of the children – light, colour, vibration, moving bubbles and a bubbly noise, and easily controlled by the children using switches.
A memorable activity from those days was a sensory drama. The sensory room became a woodland environment for ‘A Walk in The Woods’. The bubble tube was a gurgling stream, complete with a tray of water
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February 07, 2021
Our web site is changing by the hour. We are working on adding more than 300 products at least 150 unique to Spacekraft . There are lots of products to use in your Sensory Room from the bigger bubble tubes to hand held sensory products that are great to use in the classroom or in any sensory room for all ages from children to adults. We will be also lots of new blogs so watch out for interesting snippets about the history of Sensory Rooms and how they have developed down the years.
The update of the site has been a big challenge for us moving to a new super fast platform that supports video clips across mobile devices better.
We genuinely want the site to have good information and be easy to navigate so bear with us a little longer.
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February 06, 2021
I’M IN CHARGE!
Isn’t it a pleasure to remember those magic moments when a child or young person you have been working with begins to understand cause and effect, begins to understand that if they do something then something else will happen? I remember one little boy, Robert, laughing every time he knocked over a pile of bricks built up on the tray of his supportive seating (it was a challenge for him as he had cerebral palsy that severely restricted his controlled movements, especially when excited), then showing gleeful anticipation through his facial expression and his vocal utterances as his very patient supporting adult rebuilt the tower again and again …
This is a hugely important step in learning and in developing cognitive development – ‘if I do something then something else will happen’. Translated into learning situations this can be as seemingly simple as realising that ‘if I move on this space blanket it will make a lovely crinkly sound’ or ‘if
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February 06, 2021
FIDDLE AND CHEW!
It seems to me to be a miracle that most of us can cope with the sensory complexities of everyday life and the complex myriad of information that comes to us through our senses. Not only the 5 senses of touch, sight, smell, sound and taste but also our proprioceptive (body awareness) sense that tells our brain where our body and limbs are positioned in space and our vestibular (movement) sense that gives the brain information about our body’s movement.
Think of the last time you were in a crowded, busy space and consider how much sensory information you had to deal with in that situation. It might be your journey to work, or at a sports event, or even at the supermarket.
Not everyone has a sensory system that can cope with the sensory saturation that is part and parcel of everyday life.
Do you have a child in your family or in your class who may fit some or all of the following traits?
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November 20, 2020
Abbey Hill School & Performing Arts College has always endeavoured to be a forward thinking school, a place where every child really does matter. Abbey Hill prides itself on providing quality education, support and care for all its pupils. The staff always try to go "the extra mile".
Abbey Hill is held in high esteem by parents and the local community and it is their aim to be even better! Independent accolade from OFSTED inspections, confirm this; "From low starting points most students make rapid progress in all subjects" (Ofsted 2014), "The sixth form is outstanding" (Ofsted 2014).
"We have approximately 230 pupils on roll, with over 40% having Autistic Spectrum Conditions. In our new build, we were keen to develop a range of sensory rooms to meet the wide age range within our school, 3-19 years."
Our aim
