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INSIDE: PJ’S NOTICEBOARD page 2 | GAMES page 3 | ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROJECTS page 4 SUMMER 2014

Hi Catherine, I see you rushing around thehospital but I am not sure what anoccupational therapist does?Occupational therapists help childrenparticipate and be as independent aspossible in everyday activities such asgetting dressed, going to school andplaying.

I hear that you have a fancy new light andsound thing which helps children with theirmovements but what is it?“The Secret Garden” is a large screenimage that is projected onto our wall inoccupational therapy and when youmove; when you do your exercises thendifferent things will happen on thescreen. You can make music too. Thereare lots of different activities in thegarden from “fireflies” to “bug huts”. It isgoing to make therapy sessions evenmore fun.

Gosh that sounds great can bears use it?!Of course they can PJ. Anyone can use it,even if they have very little movement. Itis very visual and difficult to describe inwords so come and try it out for yourself.

I saw that there is a bee on the screen which Iloved chasing after. I love honey but what isyour favourite food?I love all kinds of fruit but my favourite isstrawberries. When I am being very

naughty I am also partial to a littlechocolate!

What is your favourite joke?“Doctor, Doctor I keep on thinking I’m abridge”“Oh really. What’s come over you” ?“So far a bus,… a motorcycle and a bike!”

What superpower would you like to have?If I could have any superpower I think itwould have to be the power to makewishes come true.......I’ve always wantedto be a fairy godmother!

PJ Bear chats with Catherine McDerment, the lead occupational therapist

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Saul Summerton plays with the Secret Garden withthe occupational therapist Ruth Macrae

Catherine McDerment with the Secret Garden

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PJ’s Noticeboard • Buckhaven High School have been raising money since 2011

by organising a coffee morning. This year was the best ever

with staff and pupils raising a whopping £1,016.65. Thank you

to everyone.• Holly’s dad Craig, uncle Steven and friends David and Mark ran

the Munich Marathon and raised a wonderful £3853. Holly

and Dad - Craig presented a cheque to Rachel our head of

community fundraising.• Caelan Skinner with the help of his mum Nicola organised a

Walk a Mile in Someone’s Else’s Shoes and raised over £3,000

which benefitted the ARCHIE Foundation and the Sick Kids

Friends Foundation. Thank you Caelan for your fantastic

fundraising. I think this is a great idea for a fundraiser and I

would wear high heels!!)• Duncan MacLennan, Callum MacLennan, Craig Ballingall and

Isla MacLennan sold cakes to hungry rugby supporters as they

passed on their way to their match. The MacLennan Clan’s

homebaking raised £430 – they must have fed a lot of hungry

rugby supporters to raise that amazing amount!!

• Amy MacBeath who is 7 ½ years old has cerebral palsy and

hydrocephalus and visits the Hospital often. She decided to

take on a Triple Challenge. First it was the1.5K Junior Race at

the Edinburgh Marathon, then her and her mum did the 3mile

Challenge Walk and finally the 5K Big Fun Run. Amy had to do

so much training to get her legs strong enough and through

her phenomenal hard work and fundraising she has raised an

amazing £4,200. Go girl!• Bruce McKerracher from Selkirk High School, Jack Houston ex-

pupil from the school and Michael Bunyan presented a

cheque to Oliver and Yvonne Eade who are our volunteers for

the Borders. The school raised an amazing £2,247.90 from

various events. A big thank you to all the pupils and staff at

the school for raising this wonderful amount of money.

• Gemma Watson and Callum McMillan presented a cheque on

behalf of the PTA of St John the Baptist Primary School to

Anne Marie who is our schools volunteer for West Lothian. This

phenomenal amount of money has been raised from a quiz

night.

Photos from top to bottom:

Rachel, Shona, Alice, Valentina, Kristin, Ishbel, Rachel, Naomi and Hannah from Primary 6 at Mary Erskine, Stewart’s Melville

Junior School raised a yummy £210.50 from a bake sale.

Kidzcare After School Club at St Peter’s Primary raised £121.43 from painting and selling mugs. Thank you Kidzcare

Strathallan Primary School in Kirkcaldy raised £158.64 from a business enterprise project that took place in the school. What

fabby entrepreneurs!

The Junior Road Safety Team at Davidson’s Mains Primary School organised a ‘Bright Day’ where everyone in the school wore

bright clothes for the day and together they have raised an incredible £500. Thank you to all Bright Stars at Davidson’s Mains

Primary!

Pupils at James Gillespie’s Primary School raised £115 from a bake sale. Thank you for making and selling so many cakes.

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Our writer in residence Linda Cracknell has written a lovely poem about Easter at the Sick Kidsand Cate James our illustrator in residence has been inspired to draw about Easter.

Maybe it will inspire you to do a poem about Chocolate?

EASTER AT SCIENNES

Birds fly in, bringing flowers up Rillbank Terrace, over the Hospital’s towers:pigeons with claws full of daffodils, andprimroses clamped in seagulls’ bills.

They find nooks and cracks to plant and fillon the Sick Kids Hospital’s window-sillsso posies brighten all five floors alongside cherry blossom at the school next door.

The Lion and Unicorn on the Royal Crestjump into the car park after a century or so’s rest.They whinny and roar and stretch their legs, prowling and prancing after Easter eggs.

Mangoes and melons roll down Argyle Place neck and neck to the Meadows in a race with brightly-painted eggs set free down Sylvan Place from A & E.

Boys and girls laugh from their bedsat birds’ nests balancing on nurses’ heads,meal-trolley wheels made of hot-cross-buns, and bunnies bursting from the hats of their mums.

Down in the cellars chicks are cheepingwhile up in the Loft, PJ Bear’s sleeping,well-fed like the children after chocolate-eating.And clown doctors leap their Easter greetings.

Linda Cracknell

www.ActivityVillage.co.uk - Keeping Kids Busy

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Can you write your own poem about yummy chocolate. I would love to see your poem so please send your completed

poem to PJ Bear c/o Sick Kids Friends Foundation, 20Millerfield Place, Edinburgh EH9 1LW. BEST POEM WINS SOME CHOCOLATE!!

Cate James