LapwingNewsletter

July 2013Quiz Night & Ryan

Insurance 2-3

Connie 4

Celebration Event 6-7

Certificates 8

Student News 9

Chantry 10

Optua Games 11

What’s OnPage 12

Newsletter Editor :Wendy Quantrill wquantrill@lapwingsuffolk.co.uk Lapwing HQ: 01473 604809 www.lapwingsuffolk.org.uk

E4L: Platinum for Paige

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Quiz Night

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Lapwing Suffolk has been selected by leading East Anglian insurance broker Ryan Insurance, as one of its two nominated charities for 2013.

The partnership was launched at Ryan Insurance’s annual Quiz Night held at Ipswich Sports Club in the Spring with funds being split between Lapwing and fellow nominated charity Head-way Ipswich.

The quiz was made up of teams from Ryan Insurance and a team from both charities and featured some incredibly innovative rounds with a ‘Playdoh landmark’ round, a ‘guess the unusual cake ingredients’ round and a ‘diet cola’ taste test. The Lapwing Team produced a brave ‘Statue of Lib-erty’ which was well received by the judges.

Although it was a team from Ryan Insurance who were victorious on the night, a total of £185 was raised, so everyone was a winner. s of a bird, Lapwing provides protection and shelter for the young people we work with. Students who attend Lapwing have often had a succession of

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As well as choosing us as a nominated charity Ryan Insurance Group has also kindly committed to sponsor this very newsletter. It goes to stu-dents, potential students, providers and funders highlighting Lapwing students’ tremendous achievements despite the obstacles to learning that they face every day.

Sue Chesworth, Chief Executive of Lapwing, com-ments “The Lapwing newsletter is an essential vehicle that allows us to reach vulnerable young people, who in many cases have been unable to ac-cess any form of learning or educational support for some time. We are immensely grateful to Ryan Insurance for stepping in to ensure we continue to reach these young people.”

Please show your support for Ryan Insurance who provide products for personal and business insur-ance.

Tim Larke, Director of Ryan Insurance added “We are delighted to support such an important local charity as Lapwing Suffolk and the news-letter seemed an appropriate place to start our association. Spreading the word about all the good work this charity does for young people in the local area is essential. We are proud to support Lapwing Suffolk and we look forward to fundraising and supporting their events.”

Congratulations also to Programme Coordinator Ruth Robbinswho has had a baby boy ‘Jack’ and Tutor Jayne Kingshottwhose little girl ‘Leoni Mae’ arrived on 7 November 2012.

I’m ‘Grace Ruth’. I was born on 22 December 2012. I visited the Lapwing Office to meet everyone. The

ladies made clucking and cooing noises. My Mummy Fay Pyecroft will be coming back to work soon.

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Connie Barnes joins LapwingLearning Mentor Connie tells us how she’s finding Lapwing and shares some gems about herself

How did you first hear about LapwingMy friend got a job with Lapwing and really enjoyed it and I was looking for a new challenge so she suggested I apply.

What are your first impressions of LapwingReally good, everyone is friendly and helpful and I’ve en-joyed becoming part of the team.

What do you find most challenging / rewarding about working with Lapwing?I find the job very rewarding, knowing I am able to help the students and have fun doing it too.

What’s the best/worst thing to happen since you started working with Lapwing?Thinking I had a snow day then being asked to go to Klub Equest and help out with the students and horses. In order to keep warm in the afternoon we started doing some Irish dancing around the yard, I don’t think the students were too impressed at first but it turned out to be a really fun day.

What might students and colleagues be surprised to know about you?That my real name is Constance.

Were you named after anyone?My Great Grandmother. What is the first thing you notice about people?Their smile. If you could learn to do anything, what would it be?To learn to skydive.

How do you manage work pressure?I go to workout at the gym.

Besides work, what are your passions?I love spending time with my friends, going to the gym espe-cially Zumba classes, going to the cinema and shopping.

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Connie has ambitions to go skydiving.

Until then, she gets her kicks at Zumba classes.

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Communi-Cake

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Rural Coffee CaravanIn May we visited the Rural Coffee Caravan - a project which deliv-ers information, friendship, coffee and cake across Suffolk. Infor-mation is power - and the Project befriends people and offers them access to the information they need to empower them.

Identifying a common aim we made contact through Twitter and arranged to take them some home-baked cakes and some Lapwing Prospectuses so they would provide information about Lapwing while they’re out and about.

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DanielDaniel Micheal is not able to communicate verbally. This photo captures a special moment when he clearly communicated to Carl (Music Tutor at Aldeburgh Music Media Project) to tell him to play a particular song again. This is just one example of the wonder-ful progress he has made this year. We hope next year brings even stronger communication from Daniel.

Troy on Radio18 year old Lapwing student Troy Whymark has received some fantastic publicity for his new radio drama with an interview on BBC Radio Suffolk. He took this as an opportunity to raise aware-ness of Lapwing too! His radio drama about ghosts in Christchurch Mansion – featuring Hugh Fraser (best known for his role in Agatha Christie’s Poirot) as the Narrator – has been produced with the help of Julien Mery, his Photography, Film and Media Tutor.

Find the interview on the news page of our website.

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CelebrateFynn Valley provided a semi-rural setting for this year’s Annual Celebration Event and Graduation Ceremony.

The event certainly seemed very rural when, with minutes to spare before students and parents arrived, Debbie Raw-linson from Downham Cot-tage Care Farm popped her head around the door and said she hoped it was ok but she’d brought some ‘goats’ with her.

At first we thought she had said ‘coats’...

Fynn Valley took it all in their stride and allowed Debbie to set the goats’ pen right outside our entrance so that all visitors could have a pet with them.

As well as Downham Cottage many of our providers were at the Event, giving families the opportunity to meet staff and see what educational opportu-nities are on offer for students.

Providers / StandsBeyond the WallBrockford BarnButterfly LodgeChantry Park/ActivLivesDownham Cottage Care Farm (and goats!)Eastern AnglingGenesis Orwell Mencap

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Wendy Quantrill

Green Light TrustJulien MeryKlub EquestNoise SolutionPaige Clifford (student who has set up a small business with support from Lapwing)RecreateRed 2 GreenTheo Middleton (student who baked much of the food for the event)The Yard

Many thanks to everyone who came on the day - from pro-viders, tutors and mentors to students and their families!

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The AwardsA huge pile of over 220 cer-tificates, (including AQA Unit Award Scheme Certificates) were presented. Here’s just a little flavour of what our magnificent students have achieved.

Arts AwardAnimation and DesignAnimal HusbandryAnglingAQA Unit Award SchemeBee KeepingBicycle RenovationBreadmakingCaring for Birds of PreyChildcareCookery and Customer Ser-viceDealing with Feelings and EmotionsEmployability for LifeFirst AidFloristryFunctional SkillsIndependent Travel LiteracyMusic and Sensory Communi-cationNumeracyPhotographyPony Club BadgesPoultry CareUsing the TelephoneVehicle TechnologyWeb-based DesignWoodland ManagementWoodwork

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See page 8 for full details of the students who have achieved Employability for Life and Functional Skills awards.

The full set of photos are on the Flickr website:

www.flickr.com/photos/lapwingsuffolk/

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Huge Achievements

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Employability 4 Life Charter

The following students have done fantasti-cally well achieving E4L Certificates.

Alex Harrap - BronzeHannah Foster - SilverAlec Gradidge - BronzeThomas Tilley - Bronze (pictured right)Robert Grant - BronzeBen McClaren - BronzeClaire Bonfield - Silver (pictured right)James Duggins - SilverPaige Clifford - Platinum (see our front cover)

Functional Skills

Jackie Bannisters’ students have passed these functional skills exams:

Sam Mondon: Entry 1 Functional Skills Math-ematics plus an AQA Unit in Using a Commu-nication Aid in a Positive Way

Laura Green: Entry 3 Functional Skills Math-ematics and English (plus in January she achieved her Entry 2 Functional Skills Math-ematics and English)

James Willer (right far right): Entry 2 Func-tional Skills Mathematics (plus in February he achieved his Entry 3 Functional Skills English)

Tim King (right far left): Entry 3 Functional Skills Mathematics (plus in January he achieved his Entry 2 Functional Skills Math-ematics).

New Team Leader Tutors

The newly created post of ‘Team Leader Tutors’ will be job shared between Jayne Kingshott and Claire Penrice. They will supervise our team of tutors: motivating, supporting and mentoring them.

Two of our students - Paige Clifford and Nathan C - sat in on the candidate pres-entation and Q&As and had a say in the selection, giving our students a voice in

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‘Jed Warner does Centre Parcs’ by Mentor Melissa Courtney-Wines

This was the second time Jed has been here for a holiday and he seemed to enjoy himself even more this time. Jed was very brave choosing to go on the new water ride named Tropical Cyclone!! (You must check this out on YouTube to fully appreciate the thrill of this ride.)

For Jed it was an achievement just climbing the many flights of stairs to reach the start of the ride. He then managed to negotiate himself (with some help) onto a 4 seater raft. The ride reaches speeds of 24 miles per hour with zero gravity. By the end of the ride my heart was beating so fast and I looked over at Jed who was laughing and signing ‘More!!’.

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Scream if you want to go faster...!

Thomas Thomas Tilley has been at The Centre since January. His first attempt at making something was the nest-box. Marking out the work using templates provided, cutting the wood, sanding, assembling and paint-ing took him about 8 hours. Once completed the box was fixed to a tree in his Gran’s garden and birds have already nested in it. Tom has also made a large planter box to house a fig tree in to restrict the roots - hopefully improving the fruiting of the figs. This box took around 16 hours work and was of his own design.

“Working at the Centre helps Tom interact with others and giving him more confidence in his abilities. He wants to make shelving for his Xbox games next, I’m sure he’ll make a good job too.” Andy Cutler(Mentor)

MarcusUsually Lapwing student Marcus Handscombe requires at least three visits somewhere before he will engage in an activity - once for a recce, another time to see inside the venue and on the third visit he will usually undertake an activity. However we were thrilled when on his first visit to The Centre Marcus got stuck in.

He has started making a wheelbarrow planter for his father. He is over-coming his challenges so well. We are so proud of him and he is surpass-ing expectations.

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Garden Blooms for Event

Chantry Walled Garden was in full bloom for its summer Open Day on Sunday 16 June. Visitors admired the flower borders and abundant vegetable plots, built and tended by Lapwing students - including James Duggins, Rowland Robbins, Bryony Owen, Hannah Foster, Alex Harrap, Hamish Griffin and Andrew Darby.

There are also glasshouses which have produced around 2,000 plants for Ipswich Bor-ough Council’s town’s parks and borders. In the cottage, teas and coffees were served with delicious homemade cakes made by students and mentors.

The walled garden project – a partnership between ActivLives and Lapwing Suffolk - is almost at the end of its second successful year, offering horticulture programmes and opportunities for students to learn skills such as cooking and construction.

Chantry Walled Garden is open every Tuesday 10am to 3pm, for plant sales throughout the summer. The project hopes to offer an educational programme offering horticulture and other qualifications next term.

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Castle Hill Community CentreLapwing students are making great progress with Life Skills and Communications Skills us-ing Music and Sport at Castle Hill.

Here are Tom Banham and Luke Smith taking their turns to com-municate using the drum and football.

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Optua Games

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27 June 2013, Royal Hospital School

Hockey Dribbling, Welly Wang-ing, Football and Netball Shoot Outs and Archery all featured on the fun-packed day in the beauti-ful grounds of RHS.

The Lapwing Teams below com-peted against other teams which included Beacon Hill Special School, Teaming Up, The Stow-market Hub, Thomas Wolsey School, Rushmere Community Hub and Genesis Orwell Mencap

White TigersBryony Owen Alex Harrap Jed Warner Hannah FosterAlasdair Messenger Isabelle Phillips Nicola BussAlice KentMeriel Bolt

Pink PanthersLaura Green Timmy King Sam Mondon James WillerNiam HaberghamDarryl Nutter Thomas Hughes Tom Lowe Yellow Big BirdsMatt Tuffen Logan HoareRichard Emery Fay IckringillRobert Grant Marcus Handscombe Alec GradidgeJames Duggins

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Lapwing Volunteer Hannah Berresford’s What’s On this Autumn

Ipswich Has Got TalentThe Regent ipswichSaturday 26th October 7;30pmIpswich Has Got Talent is a local com-munity based project bringing local talent to the Regent theatre. Now in its fifth year this year’s theme is ‘The Musicals’.

Autumn Term Tuesday 3 Sept 2013 – Friday 20 December 2013Non Student Days Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 September 2013Half Term Monday 28 October 2013 – Friday 1 November 2013Christmas Holiday Monday 23 December 2013 – Friday 3 January 2014

Spring TermMonday 6th January 2014 – Friday 4th April 2014 Non Student Day Monday 6th January 2014 Half Term Monday 17th February 2014 – Friday 21st February 2014 Easter Holiday Monday 7th April 2014 – Monday 21st April 2014

Summer Term Tuesday 22nd April 2014 – Wednesday 23rd July 2014 Non Student Day Thursday 22nd May 2014 Half term Monday 26th May 2014 – Friday 30th May 2014 Summer Holiday Thursday 24th July 2014 – TBC

One month’s notice of any additional staff training days will be given.

Ipswich Mencap Masquerade BallGreshams Social Club Sat 12th Oct, 7pm. An evening of entertainment with the ‘Patchymatt Disco’. Tickets £25 including finger buffet. Buy 5 get one free.

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Dick WhittingtonNew Wolsey Theatre21 Nov 2013 to 25 Jan 2014Fairy Bow Bells is Holding Out for a Hero to save London from the Evil King Rat.

Giant Christmas FayreCameo Hotel, CopdockSun 17th Nov 2013 10am-4pmWith over 60 stalls selling locally made crafts & quality gifts, there’s something for everyone, lots of great ideas for presents to suit all pockets. £1 admission fee, plenty of parking and refreshments available.

This Lapwing Suffolk newsletter is kindly sponsored by Ryan Insurance Group.

See if they could provide insurance for your family or business.www.ryan-group.co.uk

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