27 Jan Community Team News
On the 16th January 2017, the Community Team invited the residents of an elderly home to visit The Jo Richardson Community School. Prior to this day everyone had been working extremely hard to make sure everything was organised and prepared. Honestly, it was not easy, we did have a few setbacks but as a committed team we pushed through.
It came to the day and everyone was buzzing with excitement especially our lovely dedicated adult leader Miss McMillan. We set up all the games and were very kindly provided with tea and coffee by the school canteen. We also made our own contribution and brought in biscuits.
Iye (one of the members on the Community Team) introduced everyone and explained that we wanted to learn from them and get advice to impact on our lives. At first everyone, including me was very nervous and didn’t really know how to approach our guests. It took a while but eventually we mustered up the courage to approach two of our guests; Jackie and Doug. The conversation took off to a great start as they both told us about their childhood; we were quite surprised to hear about the sad things they had to go through and we soon started to realise how lucky we really are! It was not all sad stories though we heard some really hilarious stories too. Jackie and Doug asked us about our school and generally how we get on. It came to the end of the day (even though no one wanted it to) so sadly we had to say goodbye to our visitors.
All in all, it was a great day and hopefully we will get to see them again.
By Adunola Olayiwola 8F
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