Harvest Festival Sensory Story with Adaptations for Assemblies

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.

Facilitators may choose to use the fixed script as provided or adapt the resource to reflect their learners’ needs and preferences—using the resource as a flexible guide to celebrate the school’s community’s presence and voice.

An optional ending invites learners to reflect on generosity, especially if contributing food items to a communal cause like a food bank, showcasing arts and crafts or other symbolic items.

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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