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UPDATE: As the Aldanat Community Hub isn’t often booked in the evenings right now, we’ll be closing earlier on some nights. If the Hub is booked for the sensory rooms, cinema, or hydro pool, we’ll remain open until those sessions finish. Thank you for your understanding and continued support as we get fully up and running!
Health & Wellbeing
Your journey to better health starts here.
Take time for your body and mind with our health and wellbeing classes. Designed to improve fitness, reduce stress, and boost overall wellness, these sessions combine gentle movement, breathing techniques, and guided relaxation. Suitable for all abilities, our classes provide a supportive space to build strength, improve flexibility, and nurture mental calm. Whether you’re looking to increase energy, improve balance, or simply enjoy some time for yourself, our wellbeing classes help you feel refreshed, restored, and ready for everyday life.
Term 1 starts 5th January 2026
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Term 2
Term 3
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13th April
31st August
2027
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Term 2
Term 3
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4th January
12th April
30st August
Foundation
Foundation Health & Wellbeing Course
Course Length: 10 weeks
Session Duration: 1 hour per session
Group Size: Maximum of 8 learners
Support: 1 x facilitator and 1 x workshop assistant both with experience of working with Adults with learning difficulties and sensory impairments.
Aims:
To support individuals to understand themselves.
Make positive choices and develop skills that improve their physical, emotional and social wellbeing.
To be able to recognise basic emotions.
To be able to identify people who are important in the individual's life and learn how these people can help and support them.
To be able to recognise the difference between healthy and unhealthy foods and develop an understanding of healthy habits including regular exercise.
To build self-esteem and confidence.
Week 1 - What Makes Me, Me?
Activities: Introductions, sharing what makes each learner happy, creating self-portraits using templates and pre-cut pictures.
Focus Skills:
Self-expression.
Communication.
Confidence building.
Group participation.
Week 2 – Building My Wellbeing Plan
Activities: Explore what wellbeing means, create a class wellbeing plan, reflect on personal goals.
Focus Skills:
Understanding wellbeing.
Self-reflection.
Goal setting.
Teamwork.
Week 3 – Managing Emotions
Activities: Recognising emotions, learning simple regulation tools, making a stress ball with support, listening to songs about feelings.
Focus Skills:
Emotional recognition.
Coping strategies.
Fine motor skills.
Listening.
Week 4 – Mindfulness
Activities: Explore senses through sensory play, make playdough with support, practise focusing on sensory needs.
Focus Skills:
Mindfulness.
Sensory awareness.
Relaxation.
Turn-taking.
Week 5 – Healthy Habits
Activities: Explore hygiene, learn about healthy routines, compare good and bad hygiene through games.
Focus Skills:
Personal hygiene awareness.
Routine building.
Decision making.
Self-care skills.
Week 6 – Practising Self Care
Activities: Learn what self-care means, use visuals, make natural face masks, apply masks, relax with music, use sensory space.
Focus Skills:
Relaxation.
Personal self-care.
Sensory regulation.
Following instructions.
Week 7 – Food For Health
Activities: Discuss healthy vs unhealthy foods, sorting activity, food tasting, talk about textures and favourite foods.
Focus Skills:
Healthy eating.
Sensory exploration.
Communication.
Choice making.
Week 8 – Gymazing
Activities: Learn to use accessible gym equipment with support, practise adapted exercises with breaks.
Focus Skills:
Physichal activity.
Coordination.
Body awareness.
Resilience.
Week 9 – Who’s Important to Me?
Activities: Discuss favourite people, stick pictures/words onto a heart template, decorate, display in gallery walk.
Focus Skills:
Relationships.
Communication.
Creativity.
Self-awareness.
Week 10 – Jingle Bell Fitness
Activities: Festive dance workout, dress-up activity, stretching and accessible dance moves with breaks.
Focus Skills:
Movement.
Teamwork.
Confidence.
Celebration of achievements.
Outcomes:
By the end of 10 weeks, learners will:
Recognise emotions, wellbeing, and self-care practices.
Gain confidence in expressing themselves.
Begin to build healthy lifestyle routines.
Practise group participation, creativity, and independence.
Intermediate
Intermediate Health & Wellbeing Course
Course Length: 10 weeks
Session Duration: 1 hour per session
Group Size: Maximum of 8 learners
Support: 1 x facilitator and 1 x workshop assistant both with experience of working with Adults with learning difficulties and sensory impairments.
Aims:
Build on foundation skills in health and wellbeing.
Support learners to follow a personal wellbeing plan with guidance.
Encourage learners to recognise and manage emotions using coping tools.
Develop independence in self-care, hygiene, and healthy lifestyle routines.
Increase confidence in expressing feelings and achievements.
Provide opportunities for learners to take part in group fitness and wellbeing activities with reduced support.
Week 1 - What Makes Me, Me?
Activities: Share what makes me happy, create a personal wellbeing poster using words, pictures, or drawings.
Focus Skills:
Self-expression.
Communication.
Confidence.
Creativity.
Week 2 – Building My Wellbeing Plan
Activities: Learn more about wellbeing, make an individual wellbeing plan, set 2–3 personal goals to work on.
Focus Skills:
Goal setting.
Planning.
Following instructions.
Self-reflection.
Week 3 – Managing Emotions
Activities: Match emotions to faces and words, practise coping strategies (deep breathing, counting, stress balls), group role play.
Focus Skills:
Emotional recognition.
Regulation strategies.
Teamwork.
Fine motor skills.
Week 4 – Mindfulness
Activities: Practise mindful breathing, join in sensory activities (playdough, textures, calm music), record how it feels in pictures/words.
Focus Skills:
Mindfulness.
Sensory awareness.
Relaxation.
Communication.
Week 5 – Healthy Habits
Activities: Sort hygiene items into daily routines, create a hygiene checklist, practise a handwashing routine.
Focus Skills:
Personal hygiene.
Sequencing.
Following routines.
Independence.
Week 6 – Practising Self Care
Activities: Plan a self-care activity (e.g., bath, face mask, music), make and apply a face mask, relax in calm space with music.
Focus Skills:
Self-care.
Independence.
Planning.
Sensory regulation.
Week 7 – Food For Health
Activities: Sort foods into healthy/unhealthy categories, taste new foods, plan a healthy snack with support.
Focus Skills:
Healthy eating.
Choice making.
Planning.
Communication.
Week 8 – Gymazing
Activities: Use adapted gym equipment with minimal support, follow a short circuit routine with breaks, record progress.
Focus Skills:
Physichal activity.
Coordination.
Stamina.
Independence.
Week 9 – Who’s Important to Me?
Activities: Create a “Who’s Important to Me” card/poster with pictures and words, share with the group, gallery walk.
Focus Skills:
Relationships.
Creativity.
Communication.
Self-awareness.
Week 10 – Jingle Bell Fitness
Activities: Join in festive dance workout, practise stretches, show a favourite movement to the group.
Focus Skills:
Movement.
Confidence.
Teamwork.
Celebration.
Outcomes:
Learners will:
Follow and record their own wellbeing plans.
Identify a wider range of emotions and practise coping tools.
Build healthy routines around hygiene, food, and self-care.
Take more independence in physical activity and wellbeing choices.
Share achievements and reflections with others.
Foundation
Foundation Health & Wellbeing Course
Course Length: 10 weeks
Session Duration: 1 hour per session
Group Size: Maximum of 8 learners
Support: 1 x facilitator and 1 x workshop assistant both with experience of working with Adults with learning difficulties and sensory impairments.
Aims:
To support individuals to understand themselves.
Make positive choices and develop skills that improve their physical, emotional and social wellbeing.
To be able to recognise basic emotions.
To be able to identify people who are important in the individual's life and learn how these people can help and support them.
To be able to recognise the difference between healthy and unhealthy foods and develop an understanding of healthy habits including regular exercise.
To build self-esteem and confidence.
Week 1 - What Makes Me, Me?
Activities: Introductions, sharing what makes each learner happy, creating self-portraits using templates and pre-cut pictures.
Focus Skills:
Self-expression.
Communication.
Confidence building.
Group participation.
Week 2 – Building My Wellbeing Plan
Activities: Explore what wellbeing means, create a class wellbeing plan, reflect on personal goals.
Focus Skills:
Understanding wellbeing.
Self-reflection.
Goal setting.
Teamwork.
Week 3 – Managing Emotions
Activities: Recognising emotions, learning simple regulation tools, making a stress ball with support, listening to songs about feelings.
Focus Skills:
Emotional recognition.
Coping strategies.
Fine motor skills.
Listening.
Week 4 – Mindfulness
Activities: Explore senses through sensory play, make playdough with support, practise focusing on sensory needs.
Focus Skills:
Mindfulness.
Sensory awareness.
Relaxation.
Turn-taking.
Week 5 – Healthy Habits
Activities: Explore hygiene, learn about healthy routines, compare good and bad hygiene through games.
Focus Skills:
Personal hygiene awareness.
Routine building.
Decision making.
Self-care skills.
Week 6 – Practising Self Care
Activities: Learn what self-care means, use visuals, make natural face masks, apply masks, relax with music, use sensory space.
Focus Skills:
Relaxation.
Personal self-care.
Sensory regulation.
Following instructions.
Week 7 – Food For Health
Activities: Discuss healthy vs unhealthy foods, sorting activity, food tasting, talk about textures and favourite foods.
Focus Skills:
Healthy eating.
Sensory exploration.
Communication.
Choice making.
Week 8 – Gymazing
Activities: Learn to use accessible gym equipment with support, practise adapted exercises with breaks.
Focus Skills:
Physichal activity.
Coordination.
Body awareness.
Resilience.
Week 9 – Who’s Important to Me?
Activities: Discuss favourite people, stick pictures/words onto a heart template, decorate, display in gallery walk.
Focus Skills:
Relationships.
Communication.
Creativity.
Self-awareness.
Week 10 – Jingle Bell Fitness
Activities: Festive dance workout, dress-up activity, stretching and accessible dance moves with breaks.
Focus Skills:
Movement.
Teamwork.
Confidence.
Celebration of achievements.
Outcomes:
By the end of 10 weeks, learners will:
Recognise emotions, wellbeing, and self-care practices.
Gain confidence in expressing themselves.
Begin to build healthy lifestyle routines.
Practise group participation, creativity, and independence.
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Intermediate
Intermediate Health & Wellbeing Course
Course Length: 10 weeks
Session Duration: 1 hour per session
Group Size: Maximum of 8 learners
Support: 1 x facilitator and 1 x workshop assistant both with experience of working with Adults with learning difficulties and sensory impairments.
Aims:
Build on foundation skills in health and wellbeing.
Support learners to follow a personal wellbeing plan with guidance.
Encourage learners to recognise and manage emotions using coping tools.
Develop independence in self-care, hygiene, and healthy lifestyle routines.
Increase confidence in expressing feelings and achievements.
Provide opportunities for learners to take part in group fitness and wellbeing activities with reduced support.
Week 1 - What Makes Me, Me?
Activities: Share what makes me happy, create a personal wellbeing poster using words, pictures, or drawings.
Focus Skills:
Self-expression.
Communication.
Confidence.
Creativity.
Week 2 – Building My Wellbeing Plan
Activities: Learn more about wellbeing, make an individual wellbeing plan, set 2–3 personal goals to work on.
Focus Skills:
Goal setting.
Planning.
Following instructions.
Self-reflection.
Week 3 – Managing Emotions
Activities: Match emotions to faces and words, practise coping strategies (deep breathing, counting, stress balls), group role play.
Focus Skills:
Emotional recognition.
Regulation strategies.
Teamwork.
Fine motor skills.
Week 4 – Mindfulness
Activities: Practise mindful breathing, join in sensory activities (playdough, textures, calm music), record how it feels in pictures/words.
Focus Skills:
Mindfulness.
Sensory awareness.
Relaxation.
Communication.
Week 5 – Healthy Habits
Activities: Sort hygiene items into daily routines, create a hygiene checklist, practise a handwashing routine.
Focus Skills:
Personal hygiene.
Sequencing.
Following routines.
Independence.
Week 6 – Practising Self Care
Activities: Plan a self-care activity (e.g., bath, face mask, music), make and apply a face mask, relax in calm space with music.
Focus Skills:
Self-care.
Independence.
Planning.
Sensory regulation.
Week 7 – Food For Health
Activities: Sort foods into healthy/unhealthy categories, taste new foods, plan a healthy snack with support.
Focus Skills:
Healthy eating.
Choice making.
Planning.
Communication.
Week 8 – Gymazing
Activities: Use adapted gym equipment with minimal support, follow a short circuit routine with breaks, record progress.
Focus Skills:
Physichal activity.
Coordination.
Stamina.
Independence.
Week 9 – Who’s Important to Me?
Activities: Create a “Who’s Important to Me” card/poster with pictures and words, share with the group, gallery walk.
Focus Skills:
Relationships.
Creativity.
Communication.
Self-awareness.
Week 10 – Jingle Bell Fitness
Activities: Join in festive dance workout, practise stretches, show a favourite movement to the group.
Focus Skills:
Movement.
Confidence.
Teamwork.
Celebration.
Outcomes:
Learners will:
Follow and record their own wellbeing plans.
Identify a wider range of emotions and practise coping tools.
Build healthy routines around hygiene, food, and self-care.
Take more independence in physical activity and wellbeing choices.
Share achievements and reflections with others.
