News and Blog

Some clients enjoyed learning about the Kings Coronation and took part in: King Charles Art & Craft activities Wordsearches Afternoon tea Worksheets  

Earth Day 2023 was celebrated on 22nd April and the clients within the Centre decided to join in a range of activities which centred around this year’s theme of “Invest in our Planet”. Client’s joined in: Recycling and composting cut and paste activities Earth Day word searches and cross words 10 things

National pet Month ran from 1st April – 1st May this year and to celebrate this the Blackstone group learnt a lot about pet care. We learnt to make sure our pets are fed, watered, bathed, taken to vet if unwell and making sure our pets get enough exercise. The group completed

On Thursday 20th April we had Eleanor From RSPB in giving us a talk/presentation about birds. We got the opportunity to listen to the different sounds birds make, and made bird feeders. Everybody that attended the presentation thoroughly enjoyed it.      

Clients at the Centre enjoyed taking part in various Easter activities: Easter Bingo Egg & spoon races Easter egg hunt Easter worksheets Arts & Crafts and much more We would like to wish you all a Happy Easter, and remind you that the Centre will be closed Monday 10th April & Tuesday

Clients at the Centre have been working hard planting seeds for our crop this year. We have also been tiding and getting our vegetable garden ready.    

Today we said goodbye to our 2 friends David & Leanne who both have decided to try out new things. Both clients have attended Centre for approximately 30 years, and have enjoyed taking part in many different activities over the years. We wish you both well in the future.      

Clients at the Centre have been updating/refreshing our knowledge and skills on Fire Safety & Keeping Safe. Clients all received a certificate for taking part in these training courses.  

During the month of February, the Blackstone worked on a Dinosaur project. We made dino fossils from salt dough and pasta/sand. We painted dinosaurs for our display board.  

Clients at the Centre have enjoyed taking part in various activities to celebrate St Patrick’s Day activities including: arts and crafts reasons why we are lucky shamrocks worksheets party and games bingo Sensory Stories

Today clients enjoyed making pancakes which we put our favourite toppings on, including, Nutella and lemon and sugar. We had good fun trying to flip the pancakes in the pan. Some groups also completed pancake related worksheets, and word searches and Sharon came up with a poem about pancakes she would like

The villa clients have enjoyed taking part in art therapy with Nikki, funded by the local Aghalee Village Hall. We made positive affirmation books, and framed artwork which we produced ourselves, using different shapes, lines, pens, chalks, pastels, charcoal to help express how we are feeling.