FiNS are joined by Heartlands Work Experience Students
Our work experience students Amir and Rajpal joined it the keep fit session with Marlon today, it was a great session and the FiNs enjoyed the students company.
Love Food Hate Waste
Residents from Nechells took part in a “Love Food, Hate Waste“ training session at the POD. Everybody enjoyed the session and learned such a lot about making a difference in fighting food waste in the UK. We now know that throwing food away has a significant impact, both environmentally and financially. We are now committed…
BIG Lottery Safe Haven Project
Great news for Nechells POD. Today, 1 June 2015, Nechells POD starts the Safe Haven project funded through the BIG Lottery, Reaching Communities grant. We are really excited as this will mean we can support Nechells residents with training and sessions that will help them into employment, education or volunteering. We will also be further…
Jubilee Centre Film about Gratitude
The Jubilee Centre who are part of Birmingham University have just sent the POD a link to a film they have made about what gratitude means to people. The POD was visited and filmed as part of this production click here to see what Gratitude means across the UK and to our community in Nechells.…
Torch Relay 2015
The olympic spirit came back to Nechells schools today, the 2015 relay took place between our Zone schools in preparation for the Nechells Zone Games which will take place next Friday 19th June at the Alexander Stadium. This year the cups medals and ice creams have all been sponsored by Homebase. Thank you Homebase it…
Nechells Zone Games 2015
The Annual Nechells Zone Games took place today at the Alexander Stadium. Almost 1000 pupils, parents and staff came together for a fantastic day of sports and activities.The medals, cups and ice creams were all sponsored by a generous donation of £1,000 by Homebase through our Ladywood Business in the Community Connector Simon Jennings. The…
More Photos of the Zone Games 2015
Today we got the disc with the photographs of the Nechells Zone Games taken by Larry from Heartlands they are brilliant, thanks Larry!
BookShare 2015 Celebration Event
Today we celebrated the end of the second year of the BookShare Project funded by Smurfit Kappa Foundation. Following the success of last years project the Foundation decided to very generously increase their sponsorship to include funding for topic boxes of books for pupils in year 7 at Heartlands E-ACT Academy and to provide a…
Bloomsbury Nursery visit Olivia and Elsa at BMAG
Shantel joined staff and children from Bloomsbury Nursery and Children’s Centre this morning for the opening ceremony of the Little Hoot Project. Everyone was very impressed with all the different designs used to decorate the little owls and they were especially please to see Olivia and Elsa our Nechells owls and looking forward to following…
Parent and Child Language Group enjoy the summer sun
Megan’s group took full advantage of the beautiful sunshine today and spent the morning in the POD’s outdoor learning area. The group had their final session for this term and will restart after the summer holiday break on Thursday 10th September 2015.