#OperationGrotto Day 2. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas🎄🎅🏻 #Presents have been organised for 200 families into #Grotto Days. An awesome team effort to get this all organised today- thank you to the #Playwise team for being so efficient and utterly brilliant ♥️

#OperationGrotto Day 3. Another very busy day in the PlayWise Learning CIC Hub 😊 Wrapping production line set up ✅ Gazebo set up for Grotto creation ✅ Morrisons vouchers ready ✅ Santa’s & Elves confirmed ✅ Team of 28 staff/ volunteers booked in for wrapping & decorating tomorrow ✅

#OperationGrotto Day 5! Another fantastic day in the Hub. Thanks again to Bytes and the usual awesomeness within the PlayWise Learning CIC team helping to finish the grotto and get ready for the big day 🙌🏻 We could show you the Grotto…But that would ruin the surprise right! #1moresleep

It’s so exciting to see our Hoot’s flying off the shelf (excuse the pun!) The PlayWise Weighted Owl & families are raving about it. You can still get yours in time for Christmas. Local Delivery and free collection are also available in time for Christmas form.jotform.com/223111777161349

#OperationGrotto Day 7! Another brilliant day in the hub with the #Playwise #Grotto- but today #Santa and the Elves couldn’t wait to come out and play!! We had races, played squash the Santa and let’s get him stuck in the soft pit. It’s lovely to be part of something so magical!

#OperationGrotto Day 8! Not gonna lie- we have the #bestjobever ♥️ an incredible way to spend our day- watching children & their families meeting #Santa & his #Elf & enjoying the #PlaywiseGrotto session bring. Santa even got licked on the nose today🤣 Now that’s true love♥️

Lovely to have been able to drop in and visit Santa at PlayWise Learning CIC! Pam and her team have worked tirelessly to put on this fantastic grotto for children with disabilities and SEND and their families and I'm so grateful to have such a wonderful service in Sutton

#OperationGrotto Day 9! An incredible day with 30 families through the grotto today🎅🏻 Santa and his elf had a lovely day full of cuddles and playing in the #Playwise hub. A busy day with #Santa and some amazing little people♥️ Here are our 2 pictures of the day #christmas2022

#OperationGrotto Day 10! And that’s a wrap!!! Our last day today and what a day ♥️ Amazing children Amazing families Amazing staff #christmas2022 #playwise #grotto #disability #community #families #send

The people listed in this ‘Dear Santa’ letter below- are quite simply the epitome of what is meant by the term ’#community’ Together we created a magical Christmas #Grotto for children with #SEND. The words #thankyou don’t really cover it. You’re #awesome ♥️ Merry #christmas

#Hoot - The PlayWise Learning CIC Weighted Owl is a specialist #sensory resource & can be used as a regulating aid and a calming tool. Check out these pictures to see how Hoot has helped our lovely Amelia manage (& love) the cinema for the first time ever ♥️#playwise #playwisemerchandise

The Playwise Hub is now closed for the festive period. We hope everyone has a truly awesome Christmas….Whatever you’re doing- take care and MERRY CHRISTMAS. We look forward to seeing you in 2023 🎉 Thank you for all your continued support. ♥️

Can you help us raise some money to deliver subsidised #Signalong courses for parents of children with #send. Stuart and Steven are doing the #threepeaks challenge & #raisingmoney for #PlayWise Please click on the link below👇🏻 peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/Th…. #community #signlanguage

Lovely catching up with our awesome #Sutton #NurseryNurses team today. Thanks for the lovely lunch spread courtesy of Morrisons. The PlayWise Learning CIC Portage team have always worked closely with health & Early Years colleagues to better support the families we are working with 🙌🏻

Children with additional needs and disabilities are invited to a FREE Alice in Wonderland themed Play & Stay session Tweeddale CC on Thursday 16th February PlayWise Learning CIC Sutton Council Sutton Parents Forum #Sutton

Power to #headteachers. Time for change 🙌🏻💪🏼

March 26 is observed as the '#purpleday2023 for #Epilepsy'. It is a global event organised to raise #EpilepsyAwareness around the causes, symptoms & treatment of epilepsy as a life-threatening disorder. Many of the families we support in #Playwise have a child with Epilepsy.

“Never leave home without your bubbles”. This is the advice that any Portage worker up and down the country would give you! Bubbles are fun for everyone at any stage of development Share your pictures with us #play4portage #nationalportageassociation #portage #earlyyears

The Princess of Wales made a special visit to Kent Portage service, registered with #nationalportageassociation She heard from #portage families about their experiences of raising a child with additional needs and the support they receive in the home from Portage.

Have you seen this months edition of #Nurseryworld? As we celebrate our 40th year, Nursery World looks at the vital role that #Portage workers play in supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities, along with their families. nurseryworld.co.uk/features/artic…