Aghalee Village Hall – Complimentary Adult Safety & Wellbeing Packs
Staff member Adele applied for the adults packs from Aghalee Village Hall on behalf of the clients at the Centre, we received a ‘Congratulations’ email a few days later to say we were successful in the bag giveaway and that we could collect them on Thursday 15th April. The bags contain loads of different things […]
Virtual Boccia
We took part in the DSNI Ni Virtual Boccia competition. The groups at the Centre had great fun doing the challenges, even though we did not win any medals we thoroughly enjoyed taking part. When we counted the scores between the clients in the Centre and Nursing Home, Timothy came first with a great score […]
Easter Activities at the Centre
The Blackstone key group has been busy making an Easter crafts including: Easter themed pallet Easter Bunnies- which we painted and added flowers to. Rabbit made out of old wood We all had great fun in doing these activities, and even had a name the rabbit competition – the winner was Rosemary B with the […]
The Beeches Easter Connect!!
After completing recent Take 5 Ambassador training online via Zoom, staff member Adele thought it would be a great idea to keep the clients connected during Covid-19, and came up with the idea of an Easter Connect. Clients all received an Easter activity bag filled with positive quotes, Take 5 steps to wellbeing bookmark, mindfulness […]
DSNI – Miles and Smiles Challenge
The Miles and Smiles Challenge sponsored by Progressive Building Society Clients and staff at the Centre enjoyed taking part in a fun challenge to Stay Active. We joined the teams at Disability Sport NI and Progressive Building Society to stay as active as possible throughout January, February and March. The Groups at the Centre enjoyed […]
Keeping Active & Home Safety Talk
Today the Blackstone key group enjoyed presentations on: The Benefits of Exercise; Try and do 150 minutes of exercise a week importance of good footwear, comfortable clothing while exercising We also watched videos’ of simple exercises we can do to keep us fit and active, which we all are going to try and do more […]
♥ ♥ Love is in the air ♥ ♥
The keygroups had great fun this week taking part in a range of Valentine’s Day activities including; plantable seed cards, weaving woollen hearts, making chocolate hearts, abstract drawings, making a wooden heart out of a pallet, which we all got our photos taken with it to make personalised Valentine’s Cards to send to our loved […]
Makaton
As a Makaton friendly Centre; each week we print off Makaton sign of the week from the Makaton library via the website: makaton.org and practice it within our groups. Here are a few signs we practiced/learnt in January:
Titanic Project
Here in the Music Room/Gallery we’ve been learning all about the Titanic and we’ve even created our own Titanic replica from cardboard. We’ve learnt where it was built, how long it took to build, the price and how many people travelled on the ship. We’ve found it really interesting as it was built in Belfast […]
Food Pyramid
Our group had great fun learning about the different food groups within the food pyramid; which foods belong in which group/colour, how often/little we should be eating these foods and how to improve our health.