Previous Events

Football day on Saturday 18 September at playfootball.net in Bury. 

We had two football festivals running side by side in Bury.  One for girls and one for boys.

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TO HELP THEM RAISE MUCH NEEDED FUNDS!!

Please come and help us pack bags at Sainsbury’s in Nantwich on Sunday 28th March from 10 – 4pm
Any time that you could spare would be much appreciated.

If you can help us for any part of the day please let Amanda know on 07793200385 or e-mail her at amandabarker@ecdcs.co.uk

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BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE FOR
PARENTS OF DEAF CHILDREN

BURY DEAF CHILDREN’S SOCIETY ARE OFFERING A FREE BASIC SIGNING COURSE THAT WILL ENABLE YOU TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE CONVERSATION WITH YOUR HEARING IMPAIRED CHILD

ENROLMENT & INDUCTION DAY WILL BE IN
7th January 2010 at 6pm to 8pm
AT
8, TENTERDEN STREET,
BURY, BL90EG.
TO ENROL & FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT
Robert Quayle on 0161 763 4882 or Email raquayle4@hotmail.com

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East Cheshire Deaf Children’s Society

GETTING IT RIGHT!
Making the right choices for your child, you and your family!

East Cheshire Deaf Children’s Society invite you to join them for an evening of discussion and information sharing led by Gwen Carr, Deputy Director, Newborn Hearing Screening Programme.

A Buffet will be provided

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to meet other families and share your views. We really hope you can come along!

Anyone interested should call Amanda Barker on 01270 763210 or e-mail her at amandabarker@ecdcs.co.uk by Friday 12th June.

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Please help us if you can – every little helps!

We look forward to hearing from you!

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In 2009 the NDCS are replacing their national Fun Day with 10 Regional Fun Days up and down the Country. The aim of these days is to provide fun and information for all the family.
Our local event will be:

If we get enough interest the NDCS will fund a coach to get us all there.
Anyone interested should contact Amanda Barker – 01270 763210 or amandabarker@ecdcs.co.uk   by 1st May.
More info at www.ndcs.org.uk/fundays 

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CREWE ALEX FOOTBALL EVENT

Another successful time was had at the Crewe Alexander Soccer Centre in October.

A beautiful sunny morning awaited the footballers. Liverpool, Manchester United, Sunderland and Newcastle were represented.

After warming up, the first half was spent practising football skills. Everyone had a chance to dribble and shoot goals. Then their skills were put in to practise in the second half. Everyone was talking about the amount of goals they had managed to score.

The day was ended with a packed lunch and little goodie bag to take home.

It was brilliant to see all the children having so much fun. Especially children that normally do not get the opportunity to play football.

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Annual General Meeting

Our AGM/Family get together was held this year at Tatton Park and despite the dreadful weather we had a good turn out. After quickly covering the business matters for the day we all had the opportunity to have a chat over lunch together and then a few hardy soles braved the rain and made it to the play area!!
This year we hope to combine it with the NDCS Family Day at Crewe Hall in June - more details nearer the time.

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Our day out at the Roller Skating Party

Me and my sister went to the roller skating party held for the children of the East Cheshire Deaf Children's Society. It was difficult for a while and my mummy had to help me go round the big hall with my skates on, then it got easier after a while. I fell over only 3 times! The room was dark and there was nice pop music. There was lots of food after the disco, cakes and sandwiches, I ate lots of cakes and crisps and tomatoes. I didn't know anyone at the start then I made 2 friends called Charlotte and Ellie and I'm going to meet up with Ellie to play in the holidays. Ellie's sister who is a baby has 2 pink hearing aids that I really liked. I got a new mould last week and it has glitter in it. And it has a picture of a star. By Sorrel Smith age 6 ¾

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XMAS AT CHESTER ZOO

On a very cold wet Saturday in December 20 families braved the weather to go to the Frost Fair at Chester Zoo.

Although we didn't have the chance to all meet up, the feedback was that everyone had a great day. Most families paid a visit to Santa's grotto to let him know what were on their Christmas list, whilst others had a go at Ice-skating and wandered round the zoo to see the animals.

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Complex Day 12th January 2008

Topic: Behaviour - Children with Complex Needs.

Guest speaker: Penny Millington - Community Nurse - Learning Disabilities - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.

The parents of children with complex needs had their annual meeting; we talked about our children and how they're developing. Some parents brought videos of their children and we compared notes.

Guest speaker Penny Millington is a community nurse who specialises on children with severe learning disabilities (behaviour). Penny talked about the available local services, how the services can be accessed and under which circumstances parents should contact the services. She also gave examples of different types of behaviours and explained how the behaviour should be approached; she explained that all behaviours have a trigger that causes it, therefore if you try to remove this trigger than it's more likely that you're going to be successful in controlling the behaviour. The parents talked about their children's behaviour, and Penny gave them advice in how best to approach/deal with them. All parents felt that Penny's advices were very useful, and that she helped them to reassess their children's behaviour.

We plan to meet again in June, this time with our children on board, at Norton Priory in Warrington.

On behalf of all the parents we would like to thank the ECDCS for their continuous support, also Joyce Thorpe, Debbie Hiom, Chris Stanion (teachers of the deaf) for their help and support, and organising the event.

Veronica & Lawrence Cleaver

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The Big Walk Forward 9th March '08
On Sunday 9th March the above motley crew; Amanda Barker with her 2 sons Josh and Dom & Colin Savage with daughter Holly set out on the Big Walk in London. Organised by the NDCS they are hoping to raise over £1,000 for East Cheshire Deaf Children's Society. The walk started in Lincoln Inn Fields and made its way along the Jubilee way taking in the sights of London. There were teddy bears to find along the way and a goody bag at the end if they were all found.

5 miles later some very tired legs arrived at the finish in Russell Square, where a much deserved hot chocolate, some face painting and balloon modelling soon revived us.

On the 9th March, I went to London with my Dad and did a 5 mile sponsored walk around London organised by the NDCS. We met Dominic, Josh and their Mum and Auntie and there were also hundreds of other families taking part. We enjoyed seeing Big Ben, St Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace and the London Eye. We all felt really happy at the end (aching legs), there was loud music playing in the back round when we finished our walk and people were getting their faces painted. We managed to raise over £1,000 for our local group and would love to do it again next yearit was such good fun.

By Holly Savage.