Puffin Group

Our Teacher: Zoe Williams

Autumn 2025 Puffin Group will meet each morning and taught by Zoe Williams, in the afternoon the Puffin pupils will merge back into their key stage class.

Multi-sensory groups are carefully planned and run by Zoe Williams, our Multi- Sensory-Impairment (MSI) specialist for learners who benefit from an immersive, creative multi-sensory and total communication approach to curriculum delivery due to an impairment in more than one of their senses. Hearing and sight are the primary means of gaining information from the environment, particularly that beyond arm’s reach. Pupils with MSI are supported to interact with, and understand, the world around them by developing strategies for learning using information gained through senses such as touch and smell to supplement information usually gained from hearing or sight.

The groups focus upon communication and exploration, using resources and strategies that stimulate multiple senses at a time; this enables learners who have different lead senses to make links between experiences, and develop an ability over time, to understand, anticipate and control the events affecting them. Regular focus sessions across the week and in differing environments intend to provide key experiences to support generalisation of concepts, and meaningful experiences on which to build.