A school in Trowbridge has opened a ‘relaxing’ new facility designed to engage the senses following an 18-month programme of works.
Silverwood School, on Ashton Street, unveiled its sensory garden on Thursday, June 26, offering students access to a space designed to foster community feeling.
Deputy Mayor and Wiltshire Councillor for Trowbridge Central Stewart Palmen cut the ribbon to officially open the site, which the school says took 18 months to create following a financial grant from The Silverwood Charitable Trust.
According to the Trust, its aim is to advance the education of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities for education at Silverwood School in Wiltshire.
The garden was developed within learning outside the classroom lessons and the creative ideas of the team from years five and six.
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It features sensory stimuli and plants to engage the senses and will be used to engage learners outside the classroom.
The garden also includes an area for regulation and wellbeing.
According to a spokesperson for the school, the garden promotes the school ethos of building community, inspiring learning as it has been a community effort in getting the garden ready including support from pupils following Duke of Edinburgh award from Rowde Campus.
The garden will continue to be developed as the seasons change.
Cllr Palmen said: “It was excellent to see what the school had done with an area that was used to make it into a nice relaxing place for pupils to go and unwind.
“And it was really good to see so many of the pupils enjoying it when we were there.”
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