Schools & multi-academy trusts
A sensory room your SENCO, your SLT and your auditor can all sign off.
Independent, costed design for SEND and sensory-integration spaces. You see the finished room before you build it, and you receive the supplier-neutral written specification your finance and procurement teams need before money is committed.
Three ways we design for schools
Most school sensory rooms have to serve several profiles of need. We design the balance your pupils require, tied to your provision.
Sensory integration & OT
Rooms designed around occupational-therapy goals, with regulating, alerting and organising zones for pupils with sensory-processing needs.
Calming & regulation
Low-arousal spaces that help dysregulated or overwhelmed pupils settle, so they can return to learning ready.
Engagement & cause-and-effect
Interactive, stimulating spaces that support communication, attention and play for pupils with PMLD and complex needs.
What a sensory room does in a school
A sensory or multi-sensory room is a dedicated space that uses light, sound, texture and movement to help pupils regulate, integrate sensory input and engage. With the 2025 Ofsted focus on SEND inclusion, the Equality Act anticipatory duty and ongoing SEND reform, a well-designed room is a visible part of how a school meets need, supports EHCP outcomes and keeps pupils ready to learn. The room only works when it is designed around your pupils and the way your staff will use it, which is exactly what an independent design gives you.
Independent by design
Most of this market is built around selling equipment, with the design offered free as part of that. We work a little differently, and alongside it: because we design only and sell no equipment, the specification is supplier-neutral. It is written around your setting and your pupils, and it is yours to tender, fund and build with whoever you choose.
Funders and panels give more weight to a specification whose author does not also sell or install the room. Because we design only, ours is independent, which is exactly what helps release capital, de-risk procurement and keep your spend competitive.
What you receive
A complete, costed design of your room. The killer benefit for schools and trusts: our costed design is the written specification you must produce before procurement, already done and genuinely independent.
Photoreal renders
See the finished room before you commit, and show your SENCO, head and governors exactly what is being proposed.
3D walkthrough
Understand how the space feels and flows, not just how it reads on a plan, so the SLT can sign off with confidence.
Layout & zoning plan
A safe, accessible layout that works in your actual room, organised around its sensory and therapeutic goals.
Product specification
An itemised, supplier-neutral schedule your finance and procurement team can take straight to tender or quotation.
Socket & services plan
Power and fixing positions worked out in advance, so the build is right first time and the electrician has what they need.
Presentation deck
A defensible, costed written specification your panel, governors and MAT auditor can act on and evidence against.
How we work
Considered, collaborative and led by your pupils' needs, with your SENCO, SLT and finance team brought along at each stage.
- 01
Brief and pupil needs
We start with your pupils, your SENCO's goals and how the room supports your provision, your EHCPs and your inclusion duty.
- 02
Sensory and therapeutic goals
We agree the balance of regulation, sensory integration and engagement the space has to deliver, ready to defend at audit.
- 03
Design and visualise
We design the room and bring it to life as renders and a walkthrough your SENCO, SLT and governors can review and refine.
- 04
Cost
Every element itemised and costed, supplier-neutral, ready for your capital budget, a grant application or procurement.
- 05
Proposal
A complete written specification and presentation deck: the document procurement needs before money is committed.
Schools and SEND work
We are a new studio. Selected work and a sample design pack are available on request.
Your questions, answered
How is your costed design the specification we need anyway?
Before any procurement or tender, your finance and MAT team need a defensible written specification of what is being bought and why. Our costed design is exactly that document. It names every element, quantity and reason, so the spec you have to produce is already done, and it is independent.
Will the room sit unused or fail an inclusion audit?
The room is designed around your pupils, your SENCO's goals and how staff will actually use it day to day, with regulation, sensory-integration and engagement zones tied to your provision. That is what makes it defensible to Ofsted, to governors and to your auditor, not decoration, but a considered space evidenced against need.
Is the specification genuinely independent?
Yes. We design only and we sell no equipment, so the specification is supplier-neutral and not shaped around any catalogue. Funders give more weight to a specification whose author does not also sell or install the room, so an independent one helps release the budget, and your finance team can tender it competitively.
Will it fit our awkward room and our budget?
Yes. We design around the actual space you have, including awkward shapes, fixed services and shared rooms, and we cost to the budget you tell us. Because the schedule is supplier-neutral and itemised, you can phase the build or value-engineer it without losing the rationale.
How is the design costed, and can our finance team trust the figures?
Every element is itemised with quantities and clear descriptions, so you have a complete, costed schedule. Because it is supplier-neutral, your procurement team prices it against real suppliers and tenders it competitively, which is exactly what a MAT auditor expects to see.
Funding a school sensory room
Schools and trusts fund sensory rooms through High Needs and SEND capital via the local authority, the Condition Improvement Fund for eligible academies, and charitable grants such as Wooden Spoon, the National Lottery Community Fund and supermarket community funds. Every route needs a credible, costed specification before money is released, and ours is independent, so it is the evidence funders and procurement panels value.
Design a room your pupils will use and your panel can fund
Tell us about your provision and your pupils. We will design the room, visualise it and cost it in full, so you have the specification procurement asks for.