After a difficult year for Silica, we took part in one of our traditions that we couldn’t miss, albeit on a smaller scale. At the start of last week, we began the process of organising Silica’s Coffee and Cake Afternoon. Everyone was very excited and this time the staff decided to take a back seat, […]
The fantastic Learners and Staff at the Bordesley Green Hub enjoyed an interesting and fun time when they recently visited the Art Museum in Birmingham. Everyone was very excited, as they set off for a day’s exploring. It was great to look around all of the different areas and eras and to see some of […]
Family and friendships are very important to our Learners. Our amazing staff and Learners at our Collingwood Hub have recently enjoyed taking part in a musical session. They had great fun learning all of the words and did an awful lot of practising! They played instruments and sang a catchy song whilst having a little […]
Here at Collingswood Hub we wanted to share with you some of the fun activities that we did during our Queen’s Jubilee Party, back in June. It was a great honour to have Her Majesty watching the proceedings!! We played many games and some of us even wore our Hawaiian shirts to brighten up the […]
The Commonwealth Games….bringing it home! This year The Commonwealth Games is happening in our own City of Birmingham and we are very proud of all that Birmingham has to offer. We have been celebrating The Commonwealth Games by our learners exploring some of the other great things that their hometown has to experience. We had […]
Our students really enjoyed nurturing some beautiful butterflies this summer and were very excited when the day came to let them fly free. It was good to learn about how butterflies develop and what was needed to nurture these beautiful insects. What a Fab time we had after all our hard work of caring for […]
The sun was shining when our amazing students from our Bordesley Green Hub went to see the Birmingham historical canals within the city centre. The students had pleasurable strolls along the tow paths and viewed the canals from many of the historical foot bridges. There were numerous colourful narrowboats to be seen, all making their […]
Some of our CIC Craft Group have worked together with the Woodwork Group to make wooden candle holders with a Jubilee theme. The CIC group have been selling these for £1 and all funds go back into the CIC social enterprise business model which supports our learners with a simulated work environment and gives them […]
Our wonderful Learners at Reeves Street are busy getting creative! They have been designing wonderful artwork dedicated to Her Majesty. We have all types of designs from fantastic floral to majestic portraits, not to mention commemorative collages! All in readiness for the big weekend!
Busy Busy Busy! Our wonderful Learners are very busy in preparation for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations. Today we are making St George Shields and finding out more about British values and history. We will then decorate the walls with our Shields in readiness for our Jubilee Celebrations that will start next week. We are […]