In conjunction with the Health and Social Care Department, Mrs Braden and Mrs Hempton organise an activity for Year 13 Health and Social Care pupils to participate in called the ‘Penpal Programme’. For this programme, we work with Granard Residential Home in Omagh who specialise in caring for individuals with dementia, mental health conditions and learning disabilities. Initially, each pupil writes to one resident to introduce themselves and the resident then writes back. This then continues back and forth.

 

Pupils really enjoy the opportunity to give something back to their local community and to help brighten up a resident’s day. We have received excellent feedback from Granard Residential Home who appreciates the efforts of our pupils, and they said their residents thoroughly enjoyed receiving the letters.

 

Mrs Braden and Mrs Hempton thanks pupils for participating and Granard Residential Home for working with us on this programme as it is such a worthwhile and rewarding experience.

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