Read the latest news from the Kites team including general news and also news about our organisation.
🇬🇧 VE Day Celebrations at Our Homes 🇬🇧
Read more...This weekend, our young people and staff came together for a fantastic VE Day celebration in the local park – and what a day it was!
Not only did everyone enjoy the sunshine, delicious food (enough to feed an army!), and role play games, but the conversations were just as meaningful. The young people reflected thoughtfully ...
Easter Break
Read more...What a great half term the boys have had…
To start off the easter break, the boys were taken on a trip to the local transport museum. They enjoyed looking at all the different vehicles through different time periods. The boys particularly enjoyed looking at the old fire engines. They learnt that one of the museum staff worked on one of the fire engines on ...
Culture Night
Read more...Last week the staff organised a Culture Night, this is an opportunity for our young people to showcase their independent cooking skills and share foods from their culture. It is a celebration for our young people to embrace their background and share a part of it with the other young people and staff.
The boys independently ...
Above and Beyond Awards
Read more...Congratulations to our Above and Beyond Winner 🎉
Weekend Fun!
Read more...This weekend the boys took part in a variety of activities.
On Saturday, the boys took a trip to the ‘Brick Lego Festival’. There were “build yourself areas”, “Lego for sale” and all different kinds of Lego sets on display. The boys loved the Lego sets and some of them even participated in the speed building competitions.
With ...
Immersive Game Box
Read more...During the weekend, both the homes headed to Immersive Game Box at Lakeside for the ghostbusters experience.
This was a virtual reality box game which required the boys to wear a headset and catch ghosts by completing tasks and different mind games. This was an hour long and required thinking, running around, ...
Above and Beyond Awards
Read more...Congratulations to Eric and Sadia for winning last months Above and Beyond Awards!
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Unlocking of the Icy Savior
Read more...Last week one of our young people took part in a story planning and creative writing lesson in school. He was given a picture as a stimulus for a piece of original creative writing and created a story plan. Then using his story plan, he typed his story out, he expressed that he really enjoyed ...
Chinese New Year Celebrations
Children’s Mental Health Week
This week the boys have taken part in many activities in line with Children’s Mental Health Week.
During their thrive session, the group discussed what ‘know yourself, grow yourself’ means to everyone individually and they spoke about ways they can support positive mental health. The boys spoke about having a growth mindset and them recognising what ...