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LAPCEL Event – 03/09/2019
LAPCEL – Learning Alliance for Palliative Care & End of Life Practises This project is funded by Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex and led by Drs David Smith and Carlos Moreno-Leguizamon with support of Anglia Ruskin University, Diversity House, Ellenor, Health Education England Kent, Sussex, Surrey and University of Greenwich. The 3rd September saw Gravesend host the latest LAPCEL event. The Mayor for Gravesend, Cllr Gurdip Bungar opened the conference, giving a short introductory speech, welcoming us all
DJ Workshop – Part 2
DJ Workshop For the remaining sessions of the DJ workshop with Joined Up Thinking (JIT), the kids continued to learn how to beat match songs and how to transition from one song to another song smoothly. They also practised picking songs that go well together considering the bpm and the tempo of the songs. In the last session, the kids selected 4 songs of their choice and had to transitions through each song using the cross fader which helps
Summer Youth Club – Final Session
Final Week of Summer Youth Club For the last session of the youth club, the kids paint African tribal masks. They used various coloured paints to design their masks cut out from cardboard. After lunch, they had a dance session directed by Shaney and Emily which they continued with from the previous week. They successfully perfected the dance routine and were able to perform confidently. To cool down, they played musical statues and did freestyling to their favourite songs
Summer Youth Club – Week 4
Week 4 of Summer Youth Club On the fourth week of the youth club, the kids did some arts and crafts. They were provided with wooden handmade African stamps and paper plates. Using various coloured paints, they used paint rollers to create beautiful images and adorned them with patterns and designs. They thoroughly enjoyed being creative and it was nice seeing them being original in their artistic expression. After that they had a lunch break, they had a dance
Volunteer Training
Saturday 3rd August On Saturday 3rd August, Diversity House held a volunteering training in preparation for the community day at Holy Trinity. The key points/ learning objectives of the whole event were to allow people to understand the roles of volunteering, to feel confident approaching members of the public, feel that they can support activities, workshops and feel confident communicating within the volunteer team. During the session CEO of Diversity House, Christine Locke hit all these points and interacted
Summer Youth Club – Week 3
Week 3 of Summer Youth Club On the third week of the youth club, we had a games and arts & crafts day. There was a variety of games to play such as air hockey, ping pong, football and mini games such as Guess Who and Connect Four. Everyone went around the room to play with the games at least twice. The air hockey was the most popular choice out of all the games while the rest of the