Turn Your Passion for Play into a Rewarding Career
What's Included?
- CPD certification on completion
- Lifetime access
- Assessments and marking
- Business Setup Module
- Further Mentoring Support, if required
Meet Your Course Directors!
Simran and Grace, the founders of The Little Sensory Explorers Academy have over 30 years of combined experience in child development, they created this course to address a gap they found in accredited sensory play training.
DIRECTOR
Grace Magennis
DIRECTOR
Simran McDaid
Course Curriculum
We have combined our years of experience with the most up to date research and evidenced based practice to bring you a comprehensive and easy to follow course that will equip you with the skills to facilitate your own Sensory Play Classes.
Course Outcomes
CPD Certified Course
CPD accreditation is an independent, professional third-party assessment of training courses, events, and structured learning programmes. It ensures that the content delivered meets recognised Continuing Professional Development industry standards for quality and relevance.
For us at The Little Sensory Explorers Academy, this means our training has been externally reviewed and approved, giving you confidence that the knowledge and skills you gain are evidence-informed, professionally recognised, and aligned with best practice. CPD accreditation reinforces our commitment to delivering reliable, high-quality education you can trust to support your work with children and families.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Sensory Play Course for?
The Sensory Play Course is to provide practitioners or parents/caregivers with the knowledge and understanding of the importance of stimulating childrens’ senses. It explains methods to stimulate children in a way that aids their development, it evolves the understanding of overstimulation and its potential impact of this, and it includes elements on how to support and include those with additional needs.
Understanding sensory play will provide a better understanding on how to create classes that will benefit those little brains. Open ended play can allow children to understand the world around them in a safe environment. Sensory play is an important and integral way of learning and watching the magic of children play with no rules (unless there is a danger).
Not only does the course cover all aspects of Sensory Play, but it also includes a business module which provides step by step information on how to set up a business. We will also support you as a business mentor for as long as you need. We want to empower you to set up your business and have a job you love!
For those looking to enhance their knowledge for their setting e.g .Playgroup, School etc. We tailor face to face training to ensure that you are able to gain knowledge for your specific age group and additional needs. It is important to have training for sensory play as this is impacting a child’s development and aiding there learning. Good practitioners will use accredited courses to enhance their learning, which directly impacts a child/infant learning.
Who are the Little Sensory Explorers?
Simran and Grace, who together have over 30 years of child development experience, founded the Little Sensory Explorers after failing to find an accredited course on sensory play. So, they created a course that provided students with an understanding of what the senses are, how to create the best environment for children to learn, and to provide support for students and graduates. Simran and Grace have spent a year trialling the course and tweaking it so that it worked perfectly. The course will continue to be updated, as we are all constantly learning and understanding children and how those beautiful minds of theirs work!
What will I learn?
The course has several modules, these are:
- The brain and senses
- Understanding the senses
- What is sensory play?
- Movement Play
- Benefits of Sensory Play
- What are schemas?
- Attachment Theory
- Class Structure (we provide a class structure, so you do not have to be creative to plan and run these classes).
- Tuff Tray Examples.
- Understanding the impact of overstimulation
- Autism and additional needs.
- Accessibility and inclusion
- How to set up a business
- Health and Safety
- Risk management
What qualification will I get at the end of it?
You will receive a CPD accredited certificate stating you have completed your sensory course and will be qualified in sensory play.
What does accredited mean?
Our course was sent to the CPD trainers, who independently looked at our course and ensured it was evidence based, provided students with a new skill, and looked at the course to make sure it took 20 hours of online learning. They ensured the course was accessible to everyone.
What can I expect from the online learning?
The course is 20 hours. We have a lot of videos with information and documents to read for each module. You can go back to each module and read over the information as much as you like. You will have access to the online learning for as long as you like, there is no end date. You can do the learning in your own time.
How long will it take?
Online it will take 20 hours. In- Person, it will take a day (9:00-3:00 pm) plus the assessments.
Are there assessments?
Yes, at the end of each module you can expect to complete an assessment. This is a combination of multiple-choice questions, one/two sentence answers and the final test is an essay question. You have to wait until the module is marked before you go to the next module.