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Week 2: The Future
Cheshire Young Carers - Summer 2022 WEEK2
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THE FUTURE
54, 3, 2, 1...Blast Off! This week we donned our astronaut gear and headed to space for lots of ‘out of this world’ activities! Our young carers had plenty to talk about, particularly topics they had learnt at school: the planets, the stars, asteroids, black holes, galaxies and much more! We began by completing some space themed activities including various colouring sheets, word searches and puzzles.
Our young carers also made a solar system mobile! We talked about the different planets and various rhymes we had learnt at school to remember them (our staff even reminded the young carers that when they were at school, Pluto was considered a planet!). Our young carers then made sure we had all the planets in the correct order, trying to remember which is the smallest, which has rings etc. and then gave them a couple of coats of paint, ready to be displayed once dry.
We even managed to make our lunch ‘space’ themed…creating fruit rockets for dessert using strawberries, grapes, and blueberries. There were some amazing designs, almost too good to eat!
One of the more popular activities was space themed ‘shrink’ keyrings. Our young carers used the kits to make astronaut keyrings, rockets, planets etc. Each keyring was made from special material which made it easier to decorate but then shrunk to a more practical size once put in the oven! Our young carers were amazed to watch their personalised designs shrink before their eyes!
CHAMBOREE
SCOUT CAMP
Young carers had an amazing time at Chamboree, Cheshire’s International Camp for Scouts and Guides aged 10-17 years. The young carers joined over 4000 Scouts and Guides at their space themed camp where they packed in as many activities as possible.
Visiting the Mars Zone they enjoyed archery, catapults, axe throwing, riffle shooting and riding on hovercrafts.
Visiting Earth Zone the young carers had a great time exploring the global development village, learning African drumming and completing activities using VR headsets.
After a fabulous lunch they visited the Saturn activity zone where they all went to the Circus and tried out some circus skills for themselves.
Thanks to Chamboree for hosting the young carers once again for a truly out of this world experience!
GROSVENOR PARK
We had beautiful sunshine for our day in Grosvenor Park in Chester. When we first arrived, we saw the adventure play park was quiet, so we headed straight there for some fun. The play park had some great equipment including slides, swings, roundabouts and climbing frames. The young carers enjoyed seeing how many of them could fit on the roundabout and stay on whilst spinning! We then headed for the miniature railway and had a ride on the railway around the park. We learnt that the railway was built in 1996 to commemorate the centenary of the Duke of Westminster’s railway at nearby Eaton Hall and that the trains operate on steam and diesel.
After lunch we had a ride on a Victorian carousel. Our young carers were surprised to discover that the carousel not only had horses to ride on but chickens too! In the afternoon we took a walk along the Roman walls to the cathedral. In the cathedral we had a look around and, in keeping with the theme of miniature railways, saw a display of Pete Waterman’s model railway! It was a great display with lots of trains and scenery and our young carers were challenged to spot items such as ducks and a postman! To end the day we walked back along the Roman walls and stopped to have an ice cream next to the famous Eastgate clock: there were twenty flavours to choose from! It was then back to the park for a quick game of football and some tree climbing before it was time to head home.
Magic Moment!
“.My favourtie bit was the Merry-go-round, and playing in the park. I have never made it to the top of the climbing frame but I did today! “
