Category: Wesley Memorial

Events which take place at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford

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 be  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”
 

Normal Club with Hama Beads and Connect 4

We met again in the refurbished hall at Wesley Memorial Church, and as well as sitting and chatting, played Connect 4, and made things with Hama Beads. The new hatch to the kitchen behind the hall allowed the Hama Beads to be ironed on a stainless steel surface dsc00662The hatch is visible behind the Hama Bead makers to the left, and the new podium area to the right.
 

First club night in the redeveloped Hall at Wesley Memorial

We were all very excited to have our first Club Night after the summer break in the revamped Hall. The overall effect is brighter, and everyone commented on how nice the new floor and paintwork looked.
We admired the new and refurbished rooms, and particularly the new kitchen, which has a large hatch connecting to the hall to allow tea and coffee made in the kitchen to be passed through easily.
DSC00525Here is view looking out from the new kitchen into the Hall.
DSC00526Here we can see the new hatch into the kitchen, with a podium space to the right.
We are very grateful to Wesley Memorial Church, and everyone who has contributed to the Open Doors project for the exciting possibilities.
As it was our first time together after the summer we heard about what people had been doing, and discussed what we would like to do in the Autumn programme.
 

Wesley Memorial Church Garden Party in aid of Phab

After some rather mixed weather over the past month the sun shone on the Wesley Memorial Church annual garden party, with proceeds donated to Oxford Phab.
Members of the church, and of Oxford Phab swum and played games, and ate delicious cakes and scones, and drank many cups of tea and coffee. A beautiful summer day,  and we are very grateful to our hosts, and to those who baked cakes, and helped with serving.

Tom's Quiz

As well as a normal club night Tom had prepared a quiz. There was a Wordsearch, for everyone to do individually.
Then we divided up into teams, one on the south side of the room and two on the north.

There was a picture themed section on identifying television programmes,
20160708_204817The programmes were from a range of eras, and covered a range of interests.
There was also a general knowledge quiz, and a musical section where we were asked to identify films or television programmes from their theme tunes.
We enjoyed the evening, and many thanks to Tom for the work he put in to prepare the quiz.

Film Night – The Town That Sang – with Pizza

We ate pizza, and were then treated to a showing of The Town That Sang, a short musical film. Jack, who is a member of Wesley Memorial Church, wrote the music for the film – and gave us a short talk about it and answered our questions.

The film was funded by a Kickstarter campaign and some of the funders are also Phab members, who had seen it already, but were quite happy to see it again.