Sensory Harvest Festival – A Multisensory Guide to Inclusive Harvest Assemblies & Celebrations

Sensory Harvest Festival offers a practical guide to creating and delivering an inclusive, multisensory harvest-themed assembly, collective worship, or sensory celebration welcoming the whole school community into a shared celebration. Rooted in accessibility, creativity, and connection, it offers immersive storytelling experiences that foster emotional engagement, cognitive development, and active participation.

Shaped by the practices of SEND and specialist provisions settings, this resource blends practical advice with a harvest-themed sensory story to encourage active engagement.

Whether you’re leading 10 or 500 students, this guide helps you create moments of connection that every student can access and enjoy.

The resource provides all the tools including a fully planned script for the assembly, collective worship or sensory celebration, practical advice, and strategies of overcoming challenges of navigating large-group dynamics and responsibility, safety and suitability when using sensory props and includes whole school learning objectives.

With rhyming verse, prop cues, and closing rituals, Sensory Harvest invites students to experience and celebrate harvest through a multisensory lens to explore and connect in a space where every sense is welcome.

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Hi, thank you for clicking onto my bio. My name is Victoria Navin, I am the Founder of Rhyming Multisensory Stories.

I am a passionate advocate for providing sensory-rich learning experiences for Neurodiverse, PMLD, Sensory and SEND Learners through my fully resourced, facilitated sensory stories and sensory-rich thematic classroom activities.

With over two decades of experience, including teaching children from travelling communities in Spain and working at a special school in Cheshire, I have written over 50 fully resourced multisensory stories with facilitation guides, learning objectives and sensory-rich thematic classroom activities.

I delivered online workshops for Creative Education and educators and caregivers worldwide and am a frequent speaker at online conferences having presented at Richard Hirstwood and Carol Allen's Sensory Festivals, and the PMLD Conferences run by Joanna Grace of The Sensory Projects.

I am a guest author in 'Sensory Stories - Making Narratives Accessible Through the Senses' by Dr Joanna Grace and Teaching Reading to All Learners Including Those with Complex Needs' by Sarah Moseley, and frequently contribute to the PMLD Link journal. I have written a sensory story for The Sensory Projects and have also featured in SEN Magazine making me a leading figure in the field of sensory-based education
I write the sensory activities for Little Magic Train and have written curriculum packs for Marvin's Storytime Show.

I have collaborated with The Story Massage Programme, Songs, Signs & Sounds and Luula.

My first book published by Routledge in Oct 2025 'Sensory Spaces: An A-Z of Immersive and Creative Environments to Support Sensory Integration' is a practical guide to creating customisable environments that spark curiosity, creativity, and storytelling. Using everyday items, it shows how to design spaces for learning, sensory engagement, and relaxation.

Whether you are exploring sensory storytelling for the first time or deepening your inclusive practice, I hope my resources bring inspiration, clarity, and joy to your learning journeys.

Your questions, queries, comments, and feedback are always welcome.

Thank you for reading my bio. Let's connect!
Victoria

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