Euan, who had a fall during the lunch time fun at the Easter DREAMS Holiday play scheme last week, came back to the POD today to collect a brand new football from Start Again CIC for being so brave when he attended Heartlands Accident and Emergency to have his wounds cleaned and dressed. Euan was…
Birmingham Play Care Network have been working on a project about play with the year three pupils at St Clement’s CE Academy. Local residents were asked if they would like to join the project and they worked with Becky and the children to talk about what games and toys they played with when they were…
Bloomsbury library resumed the service in Nechells today, the library building closed in 2013 due to problems with the building, but today local residents were able to continue to use the service which is now based on a decommissioned library bus at the POD. Nechells POD Parents Forum were the first visitors when the library…
Year 4 pupils from St Clement’s, St Joseph’s and St Vincent’s all took part in the Mathematical Pirate Adventure Challenge at Aston University today. Students from Aston University have been working with year 4 pupils from each of the schools every week to develop their mathematical skills. The pupils enjoyed taking part in a series…
Staff from Nechells Zone Schools attended a conference at the Pavilion today. The speaker Isabella Wallace author of ‘Pimp Your Lesson and Talk Less Teaching‘ had a great programme lined up for the day and Heads, Teachers and Teaching Assistants all came together to ensure that the pupils attending our schools in Nechells get Outstanding…
Today was a big day in our Proud Past, Bright Future project sponsored by Smurfit Kappa SSK. Last year some of our schools took delivery of 10 sapling trees from Forest Schools Birmingham CIC which were planted in their schools grounds. The trees have all been well looked after and cared for and have grown…
The POD is now registered as a Place of Welcome, the first coffee morning was held today and 9 local residents came to have a chat, a nice cup of tea and a biscuit. The Place of Welcome group will take place every friday from 9am – 11am term time only. The sessions are being…
Naz from Adult Learning is running another Craft Group at the POD the sessions run on Tuesday afternoons 4-6pm. Today the group decorated butterflies with glitter and gems. If you would like to join in the fun please contact the POD to see if there are spaces available.
Today at the coffee morning everyone taking part in a Beetle Drive, the winner of each game was the first person to roll the dice and land on the number needed to collect all the parts to complete their beetle, There were simple prizes and everyone has a great time with everyone left feeling better…
Today it was the turn of pupils in years 5 and 6 to take the Maths Challenge. We would like to say a big THANK YOU to Mr and Mrs Teffer for making the Maths Challenge Days such a great experience for all the pupils involved in the last two days of fun and learning…