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Summer Time

In July the Rock Club held their summer BBQ, where everyone enjoyed a fairground fun day, with activities such as ball in the bucket, hook the duck and mini golf. A great day was had by all!

The service users have also enjoyed many outdoor activites this month to include a trip to Hemsby, Devon and a picnic at Pitsford reservoir.

There have also been many indoor activities to include a Mexican themed night, cookery and arts and crafts.

Holiday Time!

June has been another busy month for The Richardson Partnership for Care. The service users from 2&8 enjoyed a day trip to the Isle of Wight where one of the service users enjoyed a day spent with his family, while everyone else toured the Island visiting Shanklin and Sandowns pleasure beaches. The other homes have also enjoyed many day trips out in the sun and many in house activities!

The Rock Club also held a quiz night this month where the service users enjoyed answering a range of questions from television programmes to geography, all to try and gain the top prize! On the night service users also enjoyed drinks and hotdogs!

Summer is finally here!

As the hot weather is finally here all of our service users have been enjoying BBQs, trips to Abington Park to listen to the live music and also many outdoor and indoor activities within the homes!

Some of our service users from 2&8 have also enjoyed day trips to both Somerset and Great Yarmouth, where they strolled along the beaches and wondered around many of the shops, a great day was had by all!

With our next Rock Club event coming up in June, we have been organising and arranging questions for a quiz, where the service users will join together to try and be the team to win the top prize!

Easter

The month of April has been another great month for The Richardson Partnership for Care. Three service users from 144 enjoyed a trip to London sight seeing and visiting relatives, while other service users enjoyed themed nights, cake making and easter egg hunts.

The Rock Club also held another event, where service users joined together and enjoyed a game of bowling! This was another great success!

Rock Club

The Rock Club held its winter event at the end of February with both music and refreshments. The theme for this event was to ‘wear a hat’, where service users not only enjoyed wearing their favourite hats, but some went as far as to create their own.

One of the highlights of Rock Club is the raffle, where many of our service users won prizes from toiletries to jewellery. All together this Rock Club event was another great Success. Both staff and service users will meet again to arrange the next Rock Club event!

A BIG WELL DONE!

Another great month for The Richardson Partnership for Care with both Lee and Jessie gaining their NVQs. Jessie was also awarded STAR CANDIDATE following a reccomendation from external verifiers. So a big well done to these two!

Holidays

Following the terrible weather recently it is understandable that service users and staff alike are looking forward to better weather and more importantly where they would like to go on holiday. Brochures for different holiday destinations for 2010 are now being circulated.  Service users are in the process of looking at where they would to visit and which peers/staff they would like to go with.

Day Trips

Another great couple of months within our homes. During October and November we have been on many day trips, one of which was to the Isle of Wight. On visiting this destination it proved extremely popular with many service users.

Star Candidate and NVQ/HSC Assessor within The Richardson Partnership For Care

Congratulations to Jackie Mann, inhouse NVQ Assessor, and Jessie Doherty, Senior Support Worker at 2 & 8 Kingsthorpe Grove.

Jessie has achieved star accreditation for her NVQ level 3 under the guidance of Jackie.

Jessie is among the first in the UK to achieve the award and definitely the first from ARC Training Consortium. "Jessie completed her NVQ within a few months of registration and demonstrated a high level of motivation to continuing professional development"

Jackie's assessment and assessor skills have been commended by ARC "Excellent and comprehensive assessment planning, feedback and review which have meticulously been matched to the star units criteria"

Jackie hopes to be able to support future candidates to gain this star accreditation.

Once again well done to both Jackie and Jessie.