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The Sensory Network, East Grinstead (2025)

18/11/2025

🎆 Last week, our wonderful Little Senses families celebrated the joy of Fireworks.

We used this opportunity to explore lights in a safe and controlled way, as we know babies are drawn to light. Have you noticed your baby always looking towards the window?

We used the pom poms in a firework dance, taking them side to side and up and down. Ensuring the pom poms did t move to fast, it allowed the babies a chance to follow and track the sparkly sights as they moved.

Tracking with their eyes will help babies to cross their visual midline which supports later reading skills. Wow!

Babies are amazing! 🤩

13/11/2025

🎄CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS - NEWBORN TO SITTING.

If you’re unsure what to buy for your baby this Christmas, then take a look at my Gift Guide. I have selected toys that support mastery of motor milestones and the senses. These toys and gifts aim to spark curiosity, and engage early thinking and problem solving.

Take a look…and HAPPY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING 🎄

05/11/2025

🧠 It’s true! The first 1001 days from conception to around age 2 is a significant period for your little one’s brain, motor and emotional development.

It is during this time that the brain is creating connections at a rate of one million per second, and is 80% developed by age two, meaning every positive & nurturing response, every movement, every song you sing, every exposure to sensory experiences and sensory play, every musical activity, and every face to face interaction will lay the foundations for all future learning.

At The Sensory Network, we love sharing these magical experiences with you and your little one in our calm, nurturing and safe space where we offer lovingly planned activities and snippets of development information that will aid you in understanding your little one’s milestones.

Our vast wealth of knowledge and experience in the formative years is shared with you not only in class, but through our exclusive online Learning Library where we have articles, top tips and vital information that is readily available for you to access and read, and we’re always adding more.

We have 9 classes a week for you to choose from and our brand new term has just started but it’s not too late to join us. Take a look at our timetable here:
https://thesensorynetwork.co.uk/timetable/

Or to book on to a class click here:
https://thesensorynetwork.co.uk/booking/

We’d love to welcome you and your little one to our classes this Autumn 🍂

02/11/2025

Hello, everyone! 👋🏻

A huge, heartfelt welcome to all our new followers who have recently found our page! I’m so happy to have you here!

I’m Katie, and I can’t wait to share a bit about why I love what I do. With a degree in Early Years, I’ve devoted my career to baby development and working with little ones. I have been running baby classes since 2012 when my first baby arrived, and through welcoming my next 2 babies in 2014 & 2019. In 2018, I trained with the International Association of Infant Massage, and since then I’ve been guiding families through Baby Massage.

Then, 2020 came and everything changed. Classes stopped and I stepped away from my business to spend time with my children. In that time I reignited my passion for supporting babies and parents in the formative years. I spent hours, days and weeks reading up on the most current information regarding baby development, the senses, milestones and reflexes and how it all links together, weaving this newfound knowledge into my brand new project.

Four years ago, The Sensory Network was born. I launched my own classes and I’ve been amazed by the incredible support from all of you! Watching your little ones grow is the greatest privilege.

I pride myself on creating classes that are filled with love, kindness, support and memories.

I’m here, ready to warmly welcome you and your child into our classes, ensuring your journey together is nothing short of magical! ✨

Thank you for your support; it truly means the world to me. I hope to welcome you and your little one to one of my classes or events very soon!

Much love,
Katie

02/11/2025

WE ARE SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST A CLASS…

At The Sensory Network we are so proud to offer a space for babies and children to learn, grown and thrive in, whilst supporting you to understand the power and value of play in the early years, in a space filled with friendliness and support, reminding us that we aren’t meant to be doing this alone.
Through weekly classes built on play ideas, we share with you the vital information that supports your little one to reach their crucial milestones of development, whilst inspiring you to carry on with your lots of our play ideas at home.

We are so much more than ‘just’ a class. We provide activities encourage you to connect with your little one through play, building your confidence and understanding of what your little one needs and how you can best support their milestones, giving you the skills to support your little one in how they interact with the world, form relationships and play.

Our classes provide a safe space for babies and children to play. A space for you to feel supported and where friendships thrive.

We have limited availability for our new term, staring this week:
MONDAY EAST GRINSTEAD
11.25am Pre Walkers

THURSDAY EAST GRINSTEAD
9.45AM Little Explorers & Little Learners mixed

FRIDAY COPTHORNE
10.45AM Little learners
12.15PM Pre Crawlers & Pre Walkers mixed

JOIN US HERE:
www.thesensorynetwork.co.uk/booking

01/11/2025

🎄 CHRISTMAS SPECIALS 🎄

The most festive classes of the year - not to be missed.

🍷 Mulled Wine
🎁 A present for every little one
🔔 Festive activities
🎄 Happy memories

Saturday 20th December at St Mary’s Church Hall, East Grinstead.

9.30am Little Learners
10.50am Little Explorers
12.15pm Pre Crawlers
1.30pm Pre Walkers

Book your space now:
Www.thesensorynetwork.co.uk/booking

30/10/2025

🪇Let’s jiggle, wiggle and move. The perfect class for sitters and crawlers.

In our Pre Walkers classes we support babies through the movement stage of their learning. We focus on providing vestibular input through action songs and dancing, introducing language and familiar phonetic sounds, and developing previously learnt skills where grasping now becomes teaching, or one handed play becomes two handed, including swapping hands across the midline, joining in with action songs, and mastering new physical milestones like crawling and standing or taking first steps.

This class is the perfect active class for your ever growing baby.

You’ll also have the opportunity to connect with other new parents during the free play at the start of every class. It’s so important to have time to share, connect and chat with other families.
We’re here to support you and your baby during this brilliantly busy time of learning.
Would you like to join us?
Pre Walkers classes run in East Grinstead on:
MONDAYS at 11.25am
THURSDAYS at 11.15am (Fully booked)

And we’re in Copthorne on:
FRIDAYS at 12.15pm.

All our other baby classes are fully booked so if you’d like to join us please be quick:
https://www.thesensorynetwork.co.uk/booking

Classes start W/C 3rd November.

We’d love to welcome you 💕

28/10/2025

A local company are hiring - if of interest to anyone.

27/10/2025

🌟 Welcome to a new chapter in your life 💕

Our Pre Crawlers class is lovingly designed for you and your precious new baby, whether this is your first or your fifth little one.

In our nurturing environment, you’ll explore gentle activities that support your baby’s rapidly developing brain and body. We focus on providing vestibular input, integrating primitive reflexes, and mastering key motor milestones, including early tummy time support, head control, and grasping skills. This class is the perfect starting point for you and your little one.

You’ll also have the opportunity to connect with other new parents on this beautiful journey. Remember, while it takes a village to raise a child, sometimes it just takes one person to make a meaningful connection. We’re here to support you and help you bond with both your baby and fellow parents during these early weeks and months.

Would you like to join us?

Pre Crawlers classes run in East Grinstead on:
MONDAYS @12.40pm
THURSDAYS @12.30pm

We also run in Copthorne on:
FRIDAYS @12.15pm.

Join our course starting W/C 3rd November.
Booking on our website:
www.thesensorynetwork.co.uk

23/10/2025

❄️ Looking for more than just a baby or toddler class?

Join us at The Sensory Network for a wonderful term full of magical moments, winter sparkle, music & songs, & sensory rich activities. We have firmly rooted ourselves in the community as a class both parents and children love ❤️.

From Fireworks to Santa’s workshop — our classes are designed to support development from birth whilst making memories together along the way!

We have very limited spaces across our classes in East Grinstead & Copthorne.

🧤Winter Term bookings are now OPEN and we’d love for you to join us:

👶 For babies from 0-walking (Pre Crawlers & Pre Walkers)
👦🏼 For toddlers - Pre School (Little Explorers & Little Learners).
💕 Expert-led, lovingly created classes.

Book your space here👇🏻
https://www.thesensorynetwork.co.uk/booking

20/10/2025

🍂 The delights of Autumn 🍂

Last week our Little Senses classes were treated to a sensory ruich class all about Autumn.

Movement activities ensure little ones are kept moving despite extra layers of clothing, and muscle tone and strength are still worked on through action songs.

Out Autumn vibes swayed above the babies to improve visual tracking, focus and eye teaming, allowing babies to practise crossing their visual midline. Such an impotent skill for later milestones like reading left to right & like by line.

A bouncy spider travelled around the class-another great activity for tracking a moving object. The spider was really friendly, lots of our Pre Walkers babies were reaching out to grab hold of the spider - so wonderful to see! Whilst our Pre Crawlers spent some time on their tummy-being distracted and encouraged to lift their head to follow the spider.

An autumnal puppet show ended the class, which the babies loved!! The owl was the favourite 🦉!

On top of this we have many 1st’s last week-first rolls, first steps (WOW!), first tummy time 360 & first time holding 2 maracas! How incredible is that?? 🥰😍

What a beautiful week - I will never get over how lucky I am to spend my working days with so many incredible babies and parents!

20/10/2025

🍁 OCTOBER DELIGHTS 🍁

An autumnal class for our Little Explorers & Little Learners last week.
Spiders on leaves and Incy Wincy makaton, with nets and flying leaves that blew in the Autumn Breeze.

An seasonal class that encouraged movement, concentration, hand strength and hand-eye coordination.

I love creating a space that encourages little is to learn and grow holistically, through games and activities that inspire them to move, think, laugh & commincate.

It’s a wonderful way to spend my working days and I am so lucky.

Thank you all for a wonderful week last week!

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