Young people take part in Zoom quiz which promotes learning about others

There was lots more fun on the afternoon of Wednesday 22 July 2020 at Autonomie as members enjoyed a games session and played a “get to know us better” quiz.

Áine who led the session explains:

“I used facts that the young people and their parents had sent me privately and created a guessing game to see how well we know each other.

“The young people were very good at this and knew their friends really well.

“Some were tricky and we learnt lots of new facts about everyone along the way.

“We played a “Danni or Aine” game which is a bit like the TV show ‘Mr and Mrs’ where we tested our friendship.

“The young people found this very entertaining because we didn’t agree on much. Our drawing skills also left a lot to be desired.

“We finished the session with a picture round where we had to guess which staff member or volunteer’s face had been blurred.

“This round went very quickly as everyone was good at recognising them from the rest of their appearance or the picture itself.

“It was nice to have a session devoted to getting to know and discuss each of our members and we all did surprisingly well.”

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Superhero themed Zoom coffee morning a big hit with members

Wednesday 22 July 2020

This morning we had a superhero themed Zoom Coffee Morning.

Áine who led the digital session explains what the young people got up to:

“Some of the young people dressed up (and made their own costumes) and others brought props to show us.

“We used our new emotion cards to check-in and see how everyone was feeling after their week off.

“We discussed Superman, characters from Harry Potter, Peter Pan and others.

“One of our young people had dressed up as herself and her superpower was adulting.

“It was lovely to hear about the different characters and what we like about them.

“After discussing everyone’s favourite, we played a game of ‘guess the superhero’ using emojis.

“As well as the young people, Danni was very good at this.

“We did a superhero themed word search and then finished with our very own superhero factfile.

“Everyone got very creative in making and naming their own superhero, and telling the group about their unique superpowers.

“The young people were all in great spirits and were discussing what they are getting up to the rest of the week - one young person is extremely excited about getting to the cinema tomorrow for the first time since lockdown!”

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Young people make Banana pancakes with our live Zoom session

On Tuesday 21 July 2020 our activities programmes resumed after a well deserved team break.

Following the morning coffee pyjama day session, the afternoon Zoom activities session gave members a chance to ale in their kitchens home following a live video feed with Sarah providing participants with step-by-step instructions.

Sarah who led the baking session says: “This afternoon the young people made banana pancakes!

“The young people ensured hands were thoroughly washing before beginning.

“They carefully poured and measured their ingredients and spent lots of time mixing.

“The pancakes were a great success as the young people took special care when using the stove.

“Everyone enjoyed them (including the parents).

“A wide variety of toppings were used such as sugar and lemon, chocolate spread, grapes and raspberries.

“The young people made sure they cleaned up their kitchens once they had enjoyed their pancakes.”

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Young people have Pyjama day at Zoom Coffee Morning

Today (Tuesday 21st of July 2020) we welcomed our members back after a week’s break and Naomi explains what everyone got up to at today’s Zoom Coffee Break and Social Pyjama Day

“Welcome back everyone to our Zoom Sessions. Was great to see so many of you on!

“I asked what everyone had been doing the week we were off.

“The young people decided they would like to play a game of Pictionary, I started off drawing on the white board then the young people had a go at drawing their own pictures.

“Then to finish we played a game of higher or lower.”

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Team Leaders meeting takes place as activities programmes resume

We started off this morning (Tuesday 21 July 2020) with a Team Leaders meeting via Zoom.

Everyone back and as enthusiastic as ever!

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Programmes start this morning (Tuesday 21 July) with PJ- themed Zoom Coffee Morning hosted by Naomi and Áine

Our team are back after a break last week and young people are in for a treat as we have a super exciting activities schedule coming up this week!

First up this morning (Tuesday 21 July 2020) with Coffee Break and Social at 10.00 am on Zoom!

Theme: Pyjama morning

Hosted by Naomi and Áine.

Check out what’s on at Autonomie this week right through to 7 August 2020 at our website here: https://bit.ly/302aFz5

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What’s on at Autonomie: 21 July to 7 August 2020

Here is what’s coming up at Autonomie!

Danni’s virtual dancercise session proves a big hit with young people

One way we continue to support our young people during the continued Covid-19 pandemic is by providing structured opportunities to take part in fun, group-based virtual exercise sessions.

On Thursday 9 July, Danni hosted a health and fitness session with the aim to promote wellbeing as well as have fun! Danni explains what the session entailed:

“Today it was my turn to host a Health and Fitness session on Zoom.

“I decided to host a dancercise session which we started off with the 'cha cha slide'.

“Next the young people showed me some of their own dance moves to 'I like to move it move it’ followed by some ‘Baby Shark’.

“With a water break after each dance we finished up today by having a DJ session - asking the young people what songs they would like to hear...

“We listened to The Script, Westlife and Justin Bieber.

“The young people are looking forward to having an Autonomie Disco in the future!” Well done everyone!

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Young people learn new words in different languages with Naomi

On Thursday 9 July, Naomi led the Zoom Coffee Morning and has this update on what members got up to:

“Today we were learning some French, Turkish, Japanese and Italian words. “Then we looked at some words that are different in America and Canada to words we use.

“Everyone had fun learning new words in different languages.

“Well done to everyone for giving it a go!”

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Members take part in Áine’s Arts & Crafts Concentration Game

Wednesday 7 July 2020

This afternoon‘s activity was arts and crafts and with Nicole’s help and added entertainment, Áine demonstrated how to make a concentration game.

Each young person came prepared with all their resources and many were using their table cloths and aprons provided by Autonomie.

They also had great helpers nearby to assist tricky cutting and messy glueing. Everyone did a fantastic job, each making their game bright and colourful.

Some of us numbered our tunnels to practice our numeracy skills and others painted them different colours in order to practice their sequencing.

The finished games looked amazing and each young person was perfecting their balance and concentration by the end of the Zoom video session, all of them successfully playing the game that they had made by themselves.

We’re back tomorrow with 2 more fun sessions.

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