New home for Ice Room

A SENSORY room originally designed for Moat Brae is on the move to Georgetown Primary. The Arctic themed room first appeared in the former visitor centre as a sensory storytelling haven for children with PMLD and their families. Designed by Kirstin Abraham, it has unique features like an ice cave with a heated vibro-acoustic waterbed, fleeces, and ice-dyed silk canopy. There’s also an interim space for families to relax and acclimate. Since Moat Brae’s closure and subsequent sale the room and its equipment have gone unused, but now the ‘ice room’ is on the move thanks to the team at Dumfries and Galloway Carers Centre. Giving more details, a spokesperson for the centre said this week: “We were excited to be able to offer the Ice Room to families we support so hearing about the closure left us feeling disappointed and were desperate that the resources didn’t go to waste “We managed to speak with the new owner, Hugh Mulgrew at Corespace, who was very supportive of the equipment being moved elsewhere and used as it should be. “The Carers Centre worked with a former teacher from the Queensbury Unit, Jane Crombie and family, to move the whole Ice Room to Georgetown Primary School where it will be set up in the new school year and used by children attending the unit and the wider school.”