At the beginning of March, Ffion Poole and Natalie King worked alongside Cardiff People First to train medical students on how to communicate with people with learning disabilities. The training involved going into a breakout room and holding a number of interviews with students, where the conversations included what Caerphilly People First does and people’s lives and hobbies. We really enjoyed this and hope we can be involved again in the future.
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Winter Wellbeing Week 3
For week 3 of our Winter Wellbeing course, the Tuesday Focus Group discussed the benefits of Vitamin C and Vitamin D, and compared foods to see which foods contain the most sugar and fat, and which healthier foods you can replace the unhealthy ones with. After this discussion, the group took part in a healthy eating quiz prepared by Carmarthenshire People First, following which the group made healthy carrot and coriander soup.
Winter 2021 Newsletter
Here is the latest version of the Caerphilly People First newsletter. We hope you enjoy reading about our activities.
Learning Disability Awareness Training In Schools
Caerphilly People First has been involved in a very important project which involves visiting schools to provide learning disability awareness training to pupils aged 7-11. The training was put together by Caerphilly People First along with Hayley Gray and David Williams from the Gwent Regional Partnership Team.
The first training sessions took place at Pontnewydd Primary School in Cwmbran in October 2018, and was carried out by Caerphilly People First members Ffion Bethell and Kath Toms, with support from staff member Christy Taylor.
The team trained 233 pupils aged 7-11—including some with special needs—and on completion each student was given a goody bag and certificate as a thank you for taking part.
In January training continued in Malpas Park Primary School in Newport, where training was delivered to 115 pupils. The training will continue in various other schools during the next few months.
We hope that the outcome of the training will be that young people will become more aware of the issues faced by people with learning disabilities, and gain an understanding of their lives. 
Student Nurse Placements
For two weeks during October we welcomed two nurses on a one week placement each. We had the pleasure of training Natalie and Mariain subjects including Learning Disability Awareness, Safeguarding, Hate Crime Awareness, and Ambulance training. The training was delivered by Ffion Bethell, Kath Toms and Sharon Cochrane. It was a pleasure to have Natalie and Maria join us for their placement and we wish them all the best in their nursing careers.
Ambulance Training
on Monday 24th September Ffion Bethell delivered some Ambulance training to the cookery class this training includes when to ring 999 and when not to ring 999. If you want more information or would like to have this training please contact us on 01443834444 and ask for Ffion Bethell or Christy Taylor.
Caerphilly People First cookery class
Today’s cookery class made corn beef hash it tasted delicious:)
Cookery Class Caerphilly People First Monday 10th September 2018
Mondays cookery class we made bread and butter pudding and it tasted Delicious 
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Ambulance Training Thursday 16th August 2018
Sharon Cochrane,Colin Hill and Kath Toms went to Wood-field side day centre to deliver Ambulance training it includes,when to ring 999 and when not to ring 999. If you want more information or would like to have this training please contact us on 01443834444 and ask for Ffion Bethell or Christy Taylor.
Caerphilly People First Walk Thursday 23rd August 2018
On Thursday 23rd August 2018 members from Caerphilly People First did a sponsored walk around Bryn Bach Parc to raise money to attend the All Wales People First conference which is going to be held in Wrexham on October 16th and 17th. Everyone managed to do one lap around the park, which is about a mile long. Well done to everyone.