Discovery Days

Learning through play!

Discovery Days with Autism Explorers supports home-educated and flexi-schooled children with specialised learning-through-play sessions held every Friday. These sessions are designed to provide meaningful, structured learning opportunities while relieving some of the pressure parents and carers often feel when educating their explorers at home.

 

Each Discovery Day follows a hands-on, child-centred approach and connects to the theme of our weekly Sensory Saturdays. This creates continuity, familiarity, and deeper learning, allowing children to explore concepts in multiple ways across different contexts.

 

Our goals are rooted in developing life skills, basic learning foundations, and practical understanding through sensory-informed, interactive activities. Whether through creative workshops, real-world tasks, problem-solving challenges, group discovery play, or thematic exploration, every activity is designed to nurture confidence, independence, communication, and curiosity.

 

Discovery Days offer a welcoming, pressure-free learning environment where children can thrive at their own pace, and where parents and carers feel supported, not overwhelmed. It’s a chance for explorers to build knowledge through doing, experimenting, and connecting with others in a calm, inclusive setting.

After School: Wind Down Den

Supporting Transitions through the Wind Down Den!

 

At Autism Explorers, we understand that the move from school to the weekend or half-term can be overwhelming for children with additional needs. Our After School: Wind Down Den is a specialised after-school provision designed to bridge that gap.

 

Our sessions prioritize emotional regulation and relaxation. By combining sensory stations, Lego therapy, and calming crafts, we create a predictable and safe inclusive space where every child can decompress at their own pace.

 

Let us help turn "Friday fatigue" into a calm, positive start to the weekend or half-term break.

1-to-1 Sessions with Autism Explorers

Therapeutically informed private 1-to-1 sessions.

Autism Explorers provides private 1-to-1 sessions for children who may benefit from extra or more tailored support. These sessions are therapeutically informed and led by experienced team member who understands autism, SEND needs, and the way individual children learn and engage.

 

Focus areas of 1-to-1 sessions include: fine-motor skills (e.g. handwriting, scissors, coordination), attention and focus, emotional regulation, understanding of autism, speech and language development, and play-based activities supporting social interaction, imaginative play, and joint attention. These are especially suited for children who may find group settings overwhelming or who need a quieter, more tailored approach to developing skills and confidence.

 

Please contact us via email today to discuss.