Christmas Party with Disco

We had our Christmas Party and Disco in the newly refurbished Hall at Wesley Memorial Church.
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We also had some surprise visitors, and a birthday bonus !

We did some serious discoing


After this Phab do not meet again until the the Pantomime on January 6th.
Another event to look forward to in January will be the Moonrakers concert on January 27th – tell your friends and family, who can book tickets via Oxford Playhouse.

Sports Training Night

Adam, from the English Federation of Disability Sport came to give us an evening of sports training, kindly sponsored by Sainsburys.
We started by writing down what we hoped to get out of the evening.

After that Adam talked a little about the different ways that Disability Sport can be organised

with a test, involving matching captions to descriptions to see if we had been paying attention. Then it was time to get more active !
dsc00674We played a game where we moved around the hall, going through, or touching, as many rings as we could.

We did several variants of this – here is one.
dsc00682We also played a game where we divided into two teams. One was trying to get all the bean bags to match the colours of the hoops they were in, and the other team was trying to make sure the colours did not match. Some of the hoops were on chairs to be reachable from a wheelchair.
dsc00684We played some variations on games of hockey, where the room was divided into areas, and players from each team were assigned an area they played in.

 
Above is one of the games in action. Green sticks are playing towards one goal, and yellow sticks towards the other.
dsc00690One useful thing we learnt was to think about flexible ways the space and rules can beĀ  used. Here is a diagram of an alternative way of dividing up a playing area, with channels down the sides with players in them.
dsc00694By the end of the evening we were feeling “Happy and tired”
 

Barbecue at Simon and Sarah's house

Simon and Sarah made us very welcome at their barbecue, with tasty burgers, sausages, chicken, vegetarian sausages etc, as well as snacks, salads and drinks. Simon had put up two gazebos, and had an array of chairs, and some folding tables, as well as stringing lights round the garden to illuminate the scene as darkness fell.
As we are now into the holiday season quite a few people were away, but the 16 who were there enjoyed getting together to eat and chat.
DSC00401This is towards the end when the remains of the food, and the grill have been packed away, but before the flurry of activity which sees gazebos, folding chairs and all the other essentials of an outdoor event packed neatly and stored, TARDIS-like in Simon’s shed.
Oxford Phab is now on a summer break, but we look forward to getting together again in September.