What does a Day at Firefly look like 

We pride ourselves on our adaptability and commitment to excellence in every aspect of our service. Explore what we have to offer and how we can contribute to your success.

Every day Monday - Friday we will have specialist Neurodevelopment Therapists supporting the sessions. We will hold daily circles as a team to develop and share skills and everyone in our team is highly trained in their profession.

We also have a friendly border collie Sky who loves to play ball and is there every day alongside our team of Neurodevelopmental Physiotherapists (Zorana, Ellie, Isla and Ananda (yoga therapist). In addition to us we have different teams on different days:

Presently Mondays we have  Jo our Speech and Language Therapist and Roxy our Music Therapist.

 

 

Tuesdays we have Bev (primary school teacher), Jessi (creative artist and researcher specialising in inclusion and representation - Jessi is a wheelchair user who has Cerebral Palsy and is Autistic), and Marcus who is an experienced childminder with forest school training. 

Wednesdays Wren is our forest school facilitator and tutor offering sessions exploring living science, poetry, natural dying and much more! 

Thursdays Jessi and Bev, Susannah who is our speech and language therapist, music lover and lis'n tell live inclusive story creator) and Alice her sausage dog!, Rebecca an art teacher and PHSE teacher and Kate who currently shares her passion for science on Thursday mornings with the older children. 

Fridays Marcus and Wren will be offering bushcraft activities in the garden and local forest. Friday afternoons Ellie and Ananda will be exploring different cultures through food and languages. 

Making baking accessible to all 

 

More about Tuesday's 

 

Dr Jessi Parrott (they/them) is a powered wheelchair user who has Cerebral Palsy and is autistic. A creative artist (performer, writer and poet) and a researcher who specialises in inclusion and representation, they are passionate about empowering people through creativity. They are honoured to work as a drama and creative arts facilitator at Firefly, hosting group workshops which combine storytelling, poetry and drama activities and games to inspire individual and collective expression.

 

On Tuesday (and Thursday mornings) this summer, Jessi will hold drama and creative arts workshops open to a range of Firefly attendees.

On Tuesday afternoons Jessi will hold drama and creative arts workshops tailored to Firefly attendees who have mobility and communication support needs (such as those who use wheelchairs, walkers or other mobility aids, or Alternative and Augmentative Communication [AAC] of various forms). These Tuesday afternoon sessions will also feature inclusive movement elements based in Jessi’s experience in wheelchair dance and wheelchair parkour.

More about Ananda from Freeing Potential.

Ananda is trained in Special Yoga and specialises in offering yoga as an intervention tool for children with additional needs to help them reach their true potential. Yoga is an amazing therapy to help with sleep, digestion, body alignment and maintaining and developing a range of movements. When the body is brought into regulation, learning and healing become possible.

https://www.freeingpotential.co.uk

Ananda offers personalised yoga sessions using singing bowls as well as planing and offering dynamic and immersive sensory learning sessions and workshops pulling together a wide range of resources.

Our immersive sessions are centred around a topic to bring the topic to life in multi sensory experience without the reliance on language. The foundation of the workshops are one of energy grounding, allowing all participants to feels as regulated as possible, putting them in the best space neurologically to connect, play and learn.

With integrated activities that promote switch play using a host of switch adapted toys, Inclusive Technology apps and the Cosmo suite of switch integrated games.

I want a personalised therapy session at some point in my day, what will that cost?

Therapy fees are charged at a hourly rate this will be payable on top of you firefly day rate.

£90: if you earn less than £20k before tax
£105: if you earn £20k – 30k before tax
£120: if you earn £30k-45k before tax
£125 if you earn more than £45 K before tax/ case managed        

Organisation Rate: £140

This includes speech and language therapy, Physiotherapy, MAES Therapy, VERVE Therapy, Neurodevelopmental Therapy, Yoga Therapy, Sound baths, Reiki, EFT Tapping.

(Reiki and EFT tapping is gifted free for children fees apply to parents only) 

 

I want my child to have some tutoring whilst they are with you for the day is this included in the Firefly day rate?

Some workshops and tutoring sessions are included in the daily invitations others are offered seperately 

For information about whats on offer on the days you are with us please ask us and check out the "whats on page" which we will update regularly. 

For sessions where we ask for additional fees rates may vary (depending on the offer and how many children are in the group)

£15: if you earn less than £20k before tax
£20:245: if you earn £20k – 30k before tax
£25 if you earn £30k-45k before tax
£35 if you earn more than £45 K before tax/ case managed         Organisation Rate: £60 

Can I come to you just for a therapy session or a tutoring session?

We would love it if you came for a half or full day to enjoy time with the community as well as accessing our wonderful therapy and learing offers. 

If this is not possible we would ask that you leave a bit of time before and after your session time so that the therapist/ eductaor who is working with you for your session has some leaway with start time. They may be supporting a child who is in the space before you session and need a few minutes to transition. Equally a group session may take time to gather if the children have been with us for the whole day so an 11 oclock session may start a bit early or late. 

For example you have a 1 hour physio session at 10am please arrive at 9.45 and if possible give yourself untul 11.15 before you need to leave. You can enjoy the space before and or after your session.