Spring Break Activities

The Easter break was full and busy.

My talk at the Learning Disabilities Parliament on 10 April went really well. Adult Services want to put a video of my presentation on their website. We will edit it as soon as possible.

The middle weekend I went to the Holiday Inn at Coventry, to be with friends who have Apert Syndrome and other craniofacial conditions. Our group, Headlines, is 15 years old this year.

We went bowling and had a barn dance on Saturday, and a movie-making workshop on Sunday. In between times we went swimming in the hotel pool.

On Wednesday of the second week I went on a bush craft day with Durham Area Disability Leisure Group.

On the Tuesday and Thursday I got together with friends to do art and story planning workshops. We painted pictures of ourselves, ready to put labels on and start building character profiles.

We started a story-writing group.

I gave a talk on my Pathfinder on the Tuesday about the story-writing contest we are entering, and how to plan a story.

Some friends were away and couldn’t come. Let me know if you want to write stories with us, and I will invite you to our next story workshop.

We need to meet at least once a week between now and end of May, to write our stories.

We could meet on weekdays after school, or Saturdays.

We might meet at Chilton College, The Store at Dipton, Clayport Library, or ask if we can have a room at Gilesgate Community College or Framwellgate Secondary School.

We have booked a room at Clayport Library for Friday 9 May from 5pm to 7pm. We hope to meet before then, one day next week.

The lady we spoke with at Clayport today was very interested in our project and she is going to contact our school, other schools, and other libraries to help us promote the writing contest and the October reading events.

I'll keep you posted with whatever we arrange.