Our Brilliant Penguins!

 Above is a photo of two of our fantastic swimmers - on the left is Emma Pickering who won gold and bronze medals at the British Downs Symdrome Championships in High Wycombe earlier this month. Next to her is Emma Calvert who won 2 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals and is now National Champion for 2 lengths breast stroke. She said it was a very long day but good fun and she's really proud.

Jamie Walker has also done brilliantly and is National Champion at 1 length butterfly stroke.  

They all swim for the Cheshire Penguins Swimming Club which has been going for 34 years now. Emma Calvert will be representing her team in September this year in the Global Special Olympics held in San Juan in Puerto Rico. There will be 1200 athletes with learning difficulties there so competition will be fierce. Also representing the Penguins will be Jodie Bowyer, Pete Edwards and Sean Daniels who all attend the Old Fire Station.

The Penguins are currently trying to raise sponsorship money to help the athletes with travel costs etc as they have not managed to get any funding, despite being the top performing team in all the national competitions this year. Roberts Bakery have kindly offered a small donation to help. If anyone else would like to sponsor our fantastic swimmers please call in at the Old Fire Station or call Ann Calvert on 01606 42453.

Bake Off!

 Last Wednesday, our sports day had to be cancelled due to the field being waterlogged after all the rain, but our Bake Off went ahead! We all went to the Old Fire Station and Poppies Pantry sold lots of thir tasty cakes. They entered their tennis inspired cake into the competition, which we all thought looked fantastic. The winners were The Mulberry Centres fantastic display of cup cakes. Gill Sadler from Meadowbank Lodge also won a prize for her lovely cupcakes, and School Way won a prize too for their great cake inspired by several events, including the Olympics, Jubilee and football. ChatterBox 5's Jean Clarke helped make the School Way cake so we're very proud of her. Some other members of ChatterBox 5 helped make our red white and blue cheesecake, decorated with flags and special mention has to be made of Jayne Amphlett and Jean Smallwood's amazing chocolate creation which everyone agreed tasted gorgeous! Sue Jones and Lizzie Burrows also made really lovely cakes. Everyone did really well and we were all winners as we all got to try the cakes after the judging! 

Frogtastic!

Ged, Tim and Sue supported by Tracy and Chalene all went to the Frogtastic in the Park music festival at Walton Gardens last Wednesday. They had a pub tea first, Ged enjoyed steak and Sue and Tim loved their steak pies. They really enjoyed the night, including having pics taken with a paralympic swimmer and the torch, and also with singer Carly Ryan who they said was fantastic. There was a Kylie tribute and a Robbie Williams tribute too, all in  a big marquee in the park. Ged threw his hat in the air in joy when Kylie kissed him, and Tim liked being outside for the music but wasn't so keen on the mud. They all had a great night though, and it was all free, for Disability Awareness week. Watch this space as there are going to be some Frogtastic nights in Manchester soon...............

Nicky's Star News

Last week I helped  my  mum  at the week  end and put out the green  bin boxs  even though it was wet. I had a   day off   monday and had a   nice time. Its been   nice  tody I'm going to make a cake and disssh up the  dinner. I'm sat with  hazel and jean  and its nice looking  out side  back door. Karen  is  niceand its nice to clean up up my bed room and mary is nice. The bin  boxs go out thursday. On 18th august I go on  holiday again. Me and Mum are  shopping  on Friday and the  libry. Its  good  helping mum on sat  I swim and i liove seeing tim and  and amanda on sunday and  george and daisy.  i like swiming  and runnring.   we like to say to thank you  for   help  at help  at  fire station. We would like to do some barbequeing  one  wednesday  at   firdal  with jackie  paull  and  sue, and I would like to have carols singing  and party  time and discos.  it is  good chatte rbox 5  This is  nickey s story  and I'm going to do the shopping  it is good and I like birds  wacthing  whith marget and make cakes.

By Nicky Daffurn

Star Cakes

Today we did  the  cakes  that we mide for our bake off.  we  are   every good at  selling the  cakes . There were cheese and egg  rolls and  chococolate orange cakes.   i bougt the  some cakes take home  for   mum and me. we had a   nicetime  cook  the cakes   we  are  going  shopping  and  swimming   and  curry  and a  cup  of  coffee.   I like chichken and    youghurt  and a cup  of  tea  and fishing  in the water  and siwm ing  with tracy  at the sea side. I'd like to go to Chester Zoo too on the  bus.   we  had cheese cakes today  and very  good  chococolates  

Nicky D

Dereks News

I went to carnival  in Northwich  saw some dancer acrobatics i also saw some big Lorry's and some different  carnival floats  the weather was nice and sunny it was a nice day.l they saw lots of people there and some police was there directing the traffic because there were lots of cars, the queen was in car and they were some bands singing collecting of money for Cancer.  

Men versus Women!

We had a battle of the sexes today in the Blog group and we all shared our pet hates about the opposite sex!
Our men in the group said that sometimes women shop too much, natter and nag too much, can be moody, like boring things like clothes and make up, and can be bossy and hard to please!
We ladies said that sometimes men are bossy and hard to please too! And sometimes men can be grumpy and don't clean up and sometimes they can be scruffy and not have a shave. And they talk too much about football and cars!
This isn't everyone of course. To end on a positive note, we ladies said the things we like about men include when they get dressed up smartly and wear aftershave and smell nice, and when they are gentlemen and treat us nicely and have good manners. Men are strong too, and help us carry things, and they are very handsome.
The men then said that we ladies are good company and we are friendly and kind and look after people and we are beautiful!
Aaaaaaah! It's nice to be appreciated and we all agreed that we're all different and we all have our good points aswell as our bad points!

My News by Nicky D

I BEEN ON A  HOLIDAY   DORSET  ON SAT 23TH  IN  JUNE  2012.  I WENT  ON A BOAT  TIRP  ON THE    SEA.THE SEASIDE  HAD NICE  WILD LIFE. HOTEL WAS NICE. WE HAVE A  NEWCAR TOO AND  WE HAVE A  NICE TIME.  GOOD TIME  ON  THE DAY NICE TIME  ON THE  SEA SIDE . WE MAKE CUP CAKES WIITH MUM HELP SHOPPING AND WENT SWIMMING AND TO THE  LIBERY. I   HELP MUM ON FRIDAY MAKE CAKES. ON  SUNDAY  TIM GEORGE DAISY COME UP. I LIKE EGG SANDWICHES AND  YOGURT. 

Swimming at Marbury by Emma C

When I go swimming at Marbury I have to catch the bus and I use my bus pass. I get my wet suit on and get in and all the mud squidges between my toes along with all the sand and seaweed! I have to swim 2 miles to get round the lake. I swim with a lot of people who are also my friends and I have a good laugh with them though the swim is hard work!
I swim past the swans and ducks half way and sometimes I see fish in the water too.  After my swim mum picks me up and takes me for tea. I like hot soup and bread. Sometimes when I swim in competitions I win medals, gold, silver and bronze. 

Swimming Medals!

This picture is of our two brilliant Emmas, Emma P on the left, and Emma C on the right.

They both won these medals at Reading a couple of weeks ago.
Emma C won a gold for 25 metres breaststroke, a silver for the relay and a bronze in the 100 metre breaststroke. Emma P won a gold and a silver.
We're very proud of them both here at Chatterbox5!