Family Learning Celebrate the Chinese New Year
The Family Learning Group celebrated the Chinese New Year today. The group made Chinese Lanterns and paper snakes with Megan to celebrate the year of the Snake.
DREAMS Easter Programme Wednesday 10th April 2013
Over half way through the week now and we are having a great time! Today we made Space Rockets and Crazy Aliens with Ros, did Gymnastics with Dan and wrote and recorded our own Space Songs with Skatz, come back tomorrow to find out what else we have done…………. Cliick on the links to see…
DREAMS Easter Programme Thursday 11th April 2013
Another action packed day of fun at the POD. Today we did the Mars Milky Way and the Galaxy Drama, made Willow Stars and spray painted our Space Pictures. Tomorrow will be our last day, lets make it great!
DREAMS Easter Programme Friday 12th April 2013
Today was the last day of our DREAMS Programme, we would like to thank Adele and all the providers from WFS (Workshops For Schools) for making the workshops such fun. The wonderful support staff: Nicky, Oli and Suzanne who accompanied the children on all the activities and looked after them during the day and a…
Computers Over Coffee
As part of Spring On Line week today the POD hosted computer taster sessions for beginners. The sessions were organised by Maggie and Emily from CSV, which is an organisation that works alongside people to transform lives. Specialist volunteers from Newman University and Richard from Community IT Services helped our residents learn new skills, hints…
FiN Trip to Phantom of the Opera
Today we had the long awaited trip to the Birmingham Hippodrome to see The Phantom of the Opera, it was absolutley wonderful and was a really special afternoon. The group had saved weelky for the cost of the tickets and it was a great show. Unfortunately due to a sudden family bereavement one of the…
Health Exchange – Healthy Lifestyle Programme
Today Naz from Health Exchange started a four week Healthy Lifestyle Programme, the session was well attended and we learnt all about food types and about the effect that what we eat has on our bodies. There was also examples of what 1lb and 5lbs of fat look and feel like ugh! Next week the…
POD hedgehogs return to dolphins
The POD dolphin willow sculptures were trimmed and tidied today. Paul from Willowcraft turned our spikey hedgehogs back into beautiful shapely dolphins ready for this years growing season. They look much better after their trim and tidy up, they almost look ready to swim away!
Healthy Lifestyle – Relaxation Techniques
The second of the Healthy Lifestyle sessions took place today. The group enjoyed learning about relaxation therapy and how to relax in a variety of ways. We are all looking forward to the next session.
Food Net Cook and Taste
This week Chris from Food Net made a delicious pasta bake with the Cook and Taste group, the POD was filled with the delicious aroma of cheese, tomatoes and lots of delicious vegetables, next week the group are making home made pizza – yum yum!