Working together

Today we talked about differences in cultures and came up with some discussion topics that we will record next week. The topics included marriage, family and growing up. We recorded greeting the children. The children then made Christmas cards and video was recorded of us working with our children. We are looking forward to seeing the videos next week

Looking at buildings on St Helen’s Road

Today we went back to St Helen’s Road to look at the buildings. We looked at Miah’s first, it is a restaurant now but it used to be a church. We decided it was quite old. We think it’s a good idea that it is a restaurant now as it is being used as it was empty before. We then walked further along the road. There was a block of flats that we think may have been a hospital before. It had a clock tower on top which made it look like a church at first but we decided that it probably wasn’t. We saw the Methodist church and found out it was built in 1873 it is still in use and is the only one that is still used as a church. Next we saw the old church that has been converted into flats. It is a beautiful building with a classical Greek design with the pillars but there was no plaque on it to find out how old it was. Finally we looked at the large old church which is now having money being raised to convert it into a mosque. Once it is finished it is going to be a community centre and have lots of activities going on.

St Helen's Road

Today we went along St Helen's Road looking at the shops and interviewing people. At first we were quite nervous and were not sure about going up to people and asking them questions but Clare and Sue were very impressed as we grew in confidence and interviewed quite a few people. The local people use the shops and restaurants quite often and a few people would like to make the streets a bit cleaner. Everyone we spoke to liked St Helen's Road. Next week we will go back as there are lots of buildings we didn't look at.

Patti Pavillion

Today we walked with the children to the Patti Pavillion. The children were very excited and enjoyed the walk. The children took lots of photo’s on the way. We wanted to interview some people but there weren’t any around. We were surprised that it wasn’t used as it’s a very busy area. It could be because of the weather.

The flower beds were very pretty and the children took photo’s
We also took photo’s of the statue and building work and intend to compare them with photo’s we took in June.

We have emailed the building contractors to find out the plans for the building as we are not sure what it will be.

We talked to a lady who was walking her dog and she didn’t know what was happening either!

The children played in the play area. They preferred to play on the skateboard ramp rather than the swings and slides. It would be a good idea to have a bigger adventure play area to keep the children interested, similar to the one on the beach. Unfortunately there was glass and stones on the floor which are dangerous for the children.