Virtual Boccia Certificates
During the week clients at the Centre received their Virtual Boccia Certificates and Water bottles for taking part in the Virtual Boccia League from January – March 2021 run by Disability Sport NI sponsored by the Progressive Building Society. We want to thank Terry (Boccia Performance Pathway Officer) for all his help throughout the competition, […]
Keeping Active at the Centre!!
As part of our Health & Well being sessions the Blackstone key group have been trying our best to be more active as we have been learning it is one of the Take5 steps to wellbeing. So far this month we have been taking part in: Outdoor target/relay games Games on The Wii Step by […]
Mental Health Awareness Week
The Blackstone group enjoyed taking part in the Mental Health Awareness week 10-16 May 2021. We went on a walk around the Centre and took our ‘selfie with nature’ pictures and emailed them to Brien Community Health Development Practitioner (SE Trust) When out on our walk we chatted about how nice it is to get […]
Word search Competition!!
The clients in the Blackstone really enjoy doing word searches and most find it very therapeutic. During our planning sessions we agreed that we would have a friendly word search competition. We discussed that staff would print us out 12 word searches each (all the same) and that the winner would be whoever completed all […]
May Day Closure
The Centre will be closed on Monday 3rd May 2021 for May Day Bank Holiday. The Centre will open as normal on Tuesday 4th may 2021. Keep safe ☺
Seed Bombs for sale!!
The music room group are creating seed bombs to sell to help others get into gardening and see just how much fun it can be throwing and planting a seed bomb and watching it grow! We have mixed wildflowers in our seed bombs for a variety of colour in your garden. We are working alongside […]
Springing into spring!
The Music Room/Gallery group have been working hard getting their room and the garden ready for springtime. We planted Sunflowers, Courgettes and Butternut squash indoors and when they’re ready we will transfer them to our vegetable patch. We have been using recycled cardboard tubes in order to make beautiful flowers and butterflies for our spring […]
Chi Me
Recently staff member Aimee became a Chi Me instructor after completing a Level 2 Qualification through Lifedock (accredited by National Open College Network). We have been introducing this activity into sessions both in groups at the Centre and online via Zoom with clients who are remaining at home or shielding. Chi Me is a similar […]
Earth Day
Today we celebrated Earth Day -April 22nd. We talked about our planet and things we can do to take care of it including: keeping it clean and no littering planting trees raise our own awareness of the earth build bird feeders and insect hotels save energy – change to LED bulbs start a compost bin […]
Goldilocks comes to the Blackstone.
The Blackstone group had great fun adapting the story of Goldilocks, in our unique version of GOLDILOCKS AND THE FOUR BEARS. We enjoyed painting our own masks and deciding what we wanted our characters to look like. The cast involved where: Leanne as Goldilocks David C as Daddy Bear Kyle as Mummy Bear Adam as […]