CCL's Learner Voice team is going on-tour! For those of you who aren't aware of it, we have a team of learner voice representatives who hold regular meetings with Nicky from our Speech & Language Therapy team. The team consists of Tom, Naomi, Kevin, Nabeel, Hannah and Ben. In Nicky's words, "Learner Voice provides a forum [...]
Today was our COVID team's 100th day of testing! Our testing centre is open Monday's and Friday's. A considerable amount of work goes into our COVID testing system, from ordering the tests, to carrying out the COVID tests, inputting the tests on to the government’s website, administering the results and sending out to team members, [...]
Today we are celebrating Robyn Field, from our HR department, completing her Level 5 Diploma in Human Resource Management. During National Careers week, you may remember we shared an article all about Robyn studying whilst working, which you can view here: https://www.condovercollege.co.uk/national-careers-week-celebrating-robyn-field/. For those of you who did not read the article, here is [...]
Today, Laura Conway, our Lead Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, held Induction Communication Training at our Grafton Centre. Laura led the group through various aspects of communication, covering the importance of being able to communicate and a range of ways to do so with our learners and residents, such as Intensive Interaction and Makaton. [...]
Today, we are celebrating Laura, our Lead Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, who recently qualified as a Dysphagia Practitioner. Dysphagia is the medical term used to describe swallowing difficulties (NHS, 2021). To celebrate Laura’s latest achievements, we sat down with her to discuss her career. Let’s take a look at her story… Laura started [...]
10 Year Service Awards On Friday 23rd July, we celebrated another four members of our team reaching 10 years of service at CCL. Vikki Pryce, our Chief Executive, hosted the morning awards, accompanied by CCL’s Executive Group and tea, coffee and, most importantly, cake! For those of you who aren’t aware, we started our 10 [...]
CCL’s Celebration Day 2021 On Wednesday 21st July, we hosted our CCL Celebration Day. Whilst we would have loved to all celebrate together in person, with the rise in COVID cases, we did not feel it was safe enough to do so. Therefore, similar to last year, we held the Celebration Day via Zoom, with [...]
Take a look at CCL's June 2021 highlights: CCL e-Newsletter June 2021
Update: Thursday 24th June As I am sure many of you know, last week was Learning Disability Week. To celebrate, Hannah and Emma from Church View signed 'You've got a friend in me' in Makaton. Take a look: https://youtu.be/w3lkQbbyR5U http://youtu.be/w3lkQbbyR5U Update: Tuesday 22nd June 2021 Last week was #LearningDisabilityWeek. This year it [...]
At CCL, it has been a life-long goal to raise funds to build and open a Hydrotherapy Pool. In 2020, CCL achieved this goal. Unfortunately, due to COVID, CCL’s young people have been unable to use the pool since it was built. However, today (07/06/2021) the pool opened, allowing CCL’s learners and residents to begin [...]
