This year Comic Relief teamed up with Mr Men/Little Miss to produce some fabulous merchandise to raise money for this year’s cause.
Here are our very own Little Miss & Mr Men, all sporting their red noses & Mr Men/Little Miss outfits, along with their creations for our annual competition.
Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s Competition for #comicrelief
The overall winners of the Mr Men & Little Miss Competition were:
• Silver Class – Rowden House – Overall Winners
• Fairfield House – Adult Home Winner
• GO, Purple Class – Runner Up
• OM, Purple Class – Runner Up
• LMc, Purple Class – Runner Up
Thank you to everyone who purchased a red nose & entered the competition this year, we have raised £50.00 which is a fantastic effort.
A huge well done to Simon Colledge, who is the first employee in the SENAD Group to successfully complete the Apprenticeship Children, Young People and Families Practitioner Level 4.
Simon received his certificate in December after completing the final End Point Assessment. The qualification was delivered by Derby College and Simon has worked very hard (particularly as he also works nights). I’d like to congratulate Simon on his fabulous achievement.
Simon said ‘I feel very proud to be the first SENAD employee to obtain an Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education Level 4 qualification which will help me to improve the service I provide to the young people in my care. However, this achievement is very much a collective effort and would not have been possible without the support and advice of members of the management team, my line manager (Rikki) and colleagues at Bladon House School.’
The photo shows Simon Colledge, Night Waking Assistant at Bladon House School, receiving his Young People and Families Practitioner Level 4 certificate from Team Leader, Rikki Smith.
We were pleased to welcome Sarah Say, Clinical Nurse Specialist for the complications of excess weight service at Birmingham Childrens Hospital visited Bladon House School to discuss how the school and childrens home, work effectivity with young people with Prader Willi Syndrome. The hospital is setting up an early help and intervention service to support families managing children that have a Prader-Willi Syndrome diagnoses.
Emma Deloughery- Strategic Behaviour Support, Bladon House School
Sarah Say – Clinical Nurse Specialist, Birmingham Childrens Hospital
Heidi Crockford- Deputy Head of Care, Bladon House School
For several years, Gardening sessions and work experience opportunities for our young people at Aran Hall School have been a feature of timetables and weekly activity plans. Following the building of a purpose-built Gardening classroom, it has positively bloomed!
The new classroom provides an ideal space for young people and staff to pot plants, share ideas, store materials and learn interesting and useful facts about the natural world and local environment.
Our young people have always shown a keen interest in the nature on their door-step – and aren’t we lucky that it literally is right here on our door-step? Now they have the facilities to take their grand-scale ideas to the next level: chicken coops are planned and ready for building; fruit trees are planted; the poly-tunnel is bursting with plants and crops. It’s an exciting time for the young people and teacher Ewen Silcock, responsible for the Gardening projects.
Something that wasn’t quite so exciting was the inside of the Gardening classroom: although practical and ideal for purpose, it somehow seemed a bit dull compared with the promising plans being made. Cue Art teacher, Richard Morgan, who has been working with the young people on a variety of projects since 2019, and his equally grand imagination and creativity.
A transformation has taken place and when you step inside the classroom, it’s no longer like walking into any garden shed; it’s like being plunged into the middle of the rainforest! The walls boast an explosion of colourful plans and wildlife – it’s a truly magical vision. And what makes it even more special and inspirational is that it’s the work of our very own young people; everyone has contributed. Their mission – and, yes, they chose to accept it with the most impressive grace – has been a huge success and a wonderful way of blending the practicalities of gardening with the creativity of art: an impressive space where the imaginations of our youngsters can be cultivated with ease and flair.
Congratulations to our young people, Richard and Ewen, and thank you for sharing your talent with this transformation!
We are well underway with this half term book, ‘Happy- a children’s book of mindfulness’. We are exploring senses and feelings, constellations (including making our own!) as well as learning about new growth with some garlic bulbs! At Maple View we love a whole school text to explore a wider curriculum!
Thank you to the scary skeletons, wonderful witches & wizards, magnificent mummies & poisonous pirates. Thank you to everyone who took part in our Halloween Ball. Absolutely fabulous costumes and make up. Well done everyone
WOW! …what a week of Halloween activities we’ve had here at Pegasus. We’ve had Halloween book club, themed colouring, themed jigsaws, movie nights where the young people have all chose which one they wanted to watch … the most votes won! and a Halloween disco! The young people have used their communication aids and made choices for themselves.
Check back soon to look for our offsite activities and firework week.
This season we are pleased to sponsor the kit for Spondon Dynamo’s Spitfires. James Hurst, a member of the Bladon House School maintenance team has recently taken over as coach for the team. Last season they played five a side and have now moved to playing 7 a side and have a number of tournaments comuing up. James has grown the team, which now has 14 players.
Spondon Dynamos is a large club, with a lot of teams at various levels and various ages and supports inclusion and opportunities for all.
Thank you to colleagues Katy Brentnall, Head of Creative Arts at Alderwasley Hall School and Sixth Form and Dr Steve Grant, Clinical Psychologist and Head of Therapies at Bladon House School for sharing their expertise in the Autumn edition of Autism Eye Magazine. The article explores how the arts are not only fun, but done therapeutically they have a host of benefits including improving self esteem, well-being and even job prospects.
