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move out of my comfort zone. In my opinion, the care home enrichment has improved my social and verbal skills.


THE CARE HOME ENRICHMENT meet someone who lives up to 100 or even older. Getting to know May and Sheila and work with them was probably the best part of the enrichment!


hen I signed up for the care home experience, I did it so I could meet the residents and


by Andrei Pecete Year 8


When we arrived at the care home, we got to meet the residents and know more about them. As we all introduced ourselves, we got into a game which involved us talking about ourselves and our personality. As we progressed through our enrichment lessons, we went on to doing fun activities such as Uno and other quizzes. I think that this was very fun as we got to pair up with a resident and work as a team to complete these activities.


At the care home we got to meet residents over 100 years old such as Sheila and May. This was an interesting experience because we don’t usually


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he cooking enrichment has gone from strength to strength this term. Another group of students


have taken to the kitchen to work on their cooking skills. Students have baked a range of recipes including calzone pizza. The students have also been fortunate enough to have visited Charlton Manor Primary School teaching kitchen where the chef has taught them to make burritos and curry. There is plenty more to come in cooking enrichment, including students having the chance to enter a UK baking competition!


MINDFULNESS


indfulness was newly introduced this year to support students in


becoming more self-aware, being able to recognise stress and take steps to reduce their stress levels.


Students have trialled many different activities to find out what best suits them. They started with crochet, mindfulness colouring and creating friendship bracelets. They then moved on to showing gratitude, doing jigsaw puzzles and logic puzzles. They also had sessions involving yoga, progressive muscle relaxation, and journaling- to name just a few.


Mindfulness can be much more difficult than people realise though and some find that it’s not actually for them. Despite this, everyone got involved and they were all open to experiencing new activities to find something that brought them peace.


Hopefully, the mindfulness skills that have been developed through this enrichment will continue to support their emotional wellbeing as they progress through school and into adult life.


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