What A Fab Week!!

Well, Monday saw me setting off for my first day of work at High Hurlands. I was excited but nervous at the same time! Well, there was no need for the nerves at all - I have had a fantastic week! On Monday, I was launched straight into doing some art therapy with two of the residents, followed by some music therapy, both of which were right up my alley! Then, after lunch, it was the turn of my group of residents to go into the hydrotherapy pool where I learned their physio programmes - it felt like I had spent the afternoon in the bath! lol!!

The rest of the week was just as fun. I had a couple of training sessions which went well - feeding pump training (some of the residents are completely pump fed, but not all of them, obviously); also vehicle training - clamping the wheelchairs into the minibus etc, and fire training. I also did some non-hydro physio, craft work (again, right up my alley!!), Tac Pac (tactile stimulation programme) and then, on Friday, we took 3 of the residents out for the day. We went to the ruins at Waverley Abbey and then into Alton for a lovely, relaxed pub lunch which they all really enjoyed.

By the end of the week, I was very tired and so didn't do very much yesterday, but I am already certain that I am going to be very happy there - not just with the job itself, but the staff are great fun and very friendly!

On to news of the girls! They have all had a great week! Lucie's great excitement was on Friday when she was asked if she would attend the girls' netball training club at school. She is crazy about netball and got a netball post/net for her birthday this year! The club at school is meant for Years 5 and 6 only, but Lucie and her friend Annabel are only in year 4. However, the teacher who runs the club had seen potential in the two of them and has asked if they would go, so nevertheless, they are very excited!

Alice came home on Friday very excited as her tutor group has voted her in to be their Student Voice representative. So, she will now attend all of the student council meetings and convey her tutor groups opinion to the rest of the council. To have only been at the school for a couple of weeks and have her tutor group realise how great she will be at the job is a real buzz for her!

For those of you who know Emi, you will know that she doesn't really enjoy PE much at school (although she does dance and swim out of school and loves both!). That is until she started her PE lessons this year with a new PE teacher who has really inspired her. This week, after her hockey lesson, she was pulled to one side and asked if she would go to hockey training and be on the school team! To go from not particularly liking a subject to representing the school is pretty exciting and she is eagerly awaiting her first match in a couple of weeks!

Here are a couple of LOs which I did before I started back at work! (guess that is the only downside of my working - it eats into my scrapping time! LOL!!)

Credits: Beaute Feminie by Verena Karolyi; Templates With Attitude 17 by
Tracy Blankenship; Word Art by Bethany

Credits: All Right Now by Bianca Argollo; TnT Template by Tracy Blankenship