Today at the Grafton Centre, we took part in Safer Internet Day. This year's theme once again was "Together for a better internet", the day calls upon all stakeholders to join together to make the internet a safer and better place for all, and especially for children and young people. To take part, students video called each [...]
A brief insight into Chrissie’s career… Chrissie Simmons, CCL’s Housekeeper & Health & Safety Co-ordinator, has been appointed an MBE in the New Year’s Honours 2022. Having dedicated herself to CCL for 8 years and the care sector for 20 years, Chrissie has exceeded all expectations of her role as Housekeeper and Health & Safety [...]
A very Happy Christmas to you all! Here is a special Christmas message from our Executive Group... https://youtu.be/DDpVWmQsm0A
This year, due to COVID, once again our Christmas celebration was held via Zoom. All schemes including the houses, Grafton, Day Opps and Longbow (Head Office) attended. The Zoom event was hosted by Day Opps, starting with a Makaton cover of 'Frosty the Snowman' by Longbow: https://youtu.be/6BVIl0FjXN8 (see below). https://youtu.be/6BVIl0FjXN8 Following this, we [...]
Last month, students, staff and parents at the Grafton Centre enjoyed supporting Children in Need. Students in CCL’s purple class utilised their arts and craft skills to design a poster advertising the event. During the week leading up to Children in Need on Friday 19 November, the students partook in Pudsey themed crafts, Attention Autism and [...]
We would like to congratulate Zoe Perdue on becoming registered manager of CCL’s Welwyn scheme. After undertaking the interview with CQC, she did a fantastic job, and she is now Registered Manager under the Health & Social Care Act. Zoe has been at CCL since September 2017, starting at our education provision at Grafton, initially. [...]
On Thursday 14th October, we held our annual Colleague of the Year and Steve McGill Awards. The ceremony was held at Fitz Village Hall and all 12 finalists were invited to attend a socially distanced afternoon with cake, coffee and tea! Vikki Pryce, Chief Executive, presented the awards, alongside Mike Blakemore, Executive Group Member. The [...]
For Halloween, Harley Road decided to host the 'The Spookiest Halloween Picture' competition. They had some wonderful entries and all are winners in our eyes, but after much deliberation from the Harley Road residents, the winners were Kyle and Lewis from the Day Opportunities Programme. There is a prize to be gifted to the winners [...]
Happy Halloween from all at CCL! To celebrate, our Speech & Language team have created a video demonstrating Halloween related Makaton signs. We hope you enjoy! https://youtu.be/OIUZu6TzpVE
CCL's Learner Voice team is going on-tour! For those of you who aren't aware of it, we have a team of learner voice representatives who hold regular meetings with Nicky from our Speech & Language Therapy team. The team consists of Tom, Naomi, Kevin, Nabeel, Hannah and Ben. In Nicky's words, "Learner Voice provides a forum [...]
