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ASN Activities

Additional Support Needs Activities

Below are a list of activities available throughout Moray and a small description of each with contact details for each activities lead. Please contact your relevant Active schools coordinator to find out what ASN activity they have on in their area.

Grampian Disability Sport

Grampian Disability Sport has been collating a directory of additional support need activity across Moray which can be viewed here: https://www.grampiandisabilitysport.org.uk/listing-location/moray/

Wednesday Night Group

A youth club for school-aged children and young people with additional support needs and living in Forres. The group meets on a Wednesday evening during term-time and Friday mornings during the summer holidays. Activities include: arts; team quizzes; makeovers; massage therapy; and a themed end of school session party. Accepts volunteers. Referral via Moray Social Work only. A waiting list may be in operation for this service.

Forres Active Schools are working in partnership with the Wednesday Night Group during term time to provide a range of sporting activities with our local clubs to participants. To date these include. Orienteering, Junior jog Scotland, Cricket, Boccia, and Dance.

These sessions are only available for Forres ASG pupils.

SwimABLE and SurfABLE

We are working in conjunction with Forres and Lossiemouth Swimming Pools and the Charity Friendly Access to provide SwimABLE and SurfABLE sessions during term time for children who have additional support needs. The session spaces are limited and will take place at Forres Swimming Pool on a Thursday 10:15-12:15(Forres Academy) and 13:45-15:00 (Lossiemouth Swimming Pool) and will be delivered by a coaching team led by Kev Anderson who is affiliated to the Swimming Teachers Association (STA). These sessions are only available for Forres ASG & Lossiemouth ASG pupils.

The inclusive structured swimming lessons are for all abilities and all ages. The pool sessions include the use of surf and stand up paddle boards, providing a unique approach for working towards improving balance and coordination, not to mention the extra sense of fun to keep participants engaged.

Please contact the relevant coordinator

Forres ASG Rosalyn Carruthers mobile: 07800 678561 email: rosalyn.carruthers@moray.gov.uk

Lossiemouth ASG Fraser Lyall mobile: 07817957109 email: Fraser.lyall@moray.gov.uk

Friendly Access

Friendly Access is a charity (SC045029) which focuses on creating and improving accessibility for everyone, regardless of disability or condition. ‘Seeing the environment as the disabling factor, not the individual’. Established in 2015 in Forres, Moray, we have 3 key areas. Technology, Sport and Education.

We believe everyone should have the choice to take part in adventure sports. We also believe in making access to that sport inclusive, not exclusive. Since piloting the first autism specific surfing classes in Scotland in 2015, we proudly launched Scotland’s first fully adaptive and inclusive surf school SurfABLE Scotland in November 2017, providing the world’s most northerly surfing therapy programme for all (age 5 – adult), including low mobility and wheelchair users. The project mainly operates in Lossiemouth and Sandend and we also cover Caithness to Aberdeen.

Contact: Kev Anderson kev@friendlyaccess.org m.07938 214165 for information.

Highland Cycle Ability Centre

Active Schools has been working in partnership with this centre to provide opportunities for our young people and raise awareness of this fantastic facility at Cantray near Cawdor. The centre’s aim is to give everyone a safe and enjoyable place to cycle regardless of their ability. They have a fleet of adapted cycles from trikes and tandems to more specially adapted cycles for riders with different disabilities. The centre has a 1.2km track providing a great environment for families of mixed abilities to enjoy a cycle together.

For more information look at their website https://www.highlandcycleabilitycentre.com/ or

Contact: Si 01667 493789 or highlandcycleabilitycentre@yahoo.co.uk

Moray Group Riding for the Disabled

At Moray RDA local young people and adults with individual needs have fun while learning to ride and care for ponies. We meet on a Wednesday from March until the end of June and from August until the end of November. We meet at Cranloch Riding Centre outside Elgin.

We believe in the physical benefits and mental health benefits of riding and contact with horses.

Our key principles are FUN, THERAPY and ACHIEVEMENT.

All our sessions are run by our trained RDA coaches, but we could not manage without the support of our dedicated volunteers. We are ready to welcome new volunteers at any time.

Website: https://morayrda.org.uk/

Elgin City ASN Football

Elgin City are able to provide free ASN sessions in moray thanks to funding from MFR Cash for kids sports challenge. The sessions remove a barrier to participation for the participants and allows them to enjoy football in a suitable environment!

Website: https://www.elgincity.net/community-academy/community-football

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Relaxed Sports for Neurodiverse Children

Keith Active Schools is running a family friendly weekly session each Wednesday of the term until November 2024. The sessions are aimed at P1-P7 pupils with a neurodiverse diagnosis. The aim is to provide a safe space for free play where pupils from different schools can mix and make friends. A small group of Young Leaders join in the fun and make great role models for the younger pupils. The session is also supported by the Active Schools Co-ordinator, school PSA and lead ASN staff.

Parents/guardians have a chance to chat and chill with a tea or coffee in the Community Room at Keith Primary School. A chance to switch off, and also chat to other parents. We hope to invite guest speakers from time to time.

Queries? Contact: amanda.walker@moray.gov.uk // 07817955335

Sign Up: https://form.jotform.com/211442506581349

Relaxed sport session at Linkwood Primary

on a Monday at 12.10 until 12.50. It’s a closed group and is only open to certain children in the school.

Queries? Contact: fiona.preston@moray.gov.uk

Relaxed sport session at Greenwards primary

On a Wednesday at 11:00-11:40am on a Wednesday. This is a complex needs group so it is only open to certain children at the school.

Queries? Contact: fiona.preston@moray.gov.uk

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