For the last three years South Darley CE Primary School have had a link with the children and staff at Hastings School, Kolkata. The children at Hastings live very different lives from ours- they live outdoors, underneath the middle of a huge road bridge. Even their school doesn’t have a building but the children still come every day, smiling and keen to learn, because they know how important it is to have an education if they want to have choices later in their lives.
This month Miss Gill and Mrs Maynard will be returning to Kolkata to visit the Hastings children and their teachers. We are looking forward to having lots of fun together as we continue to learn from each other. We can’t wait! You are welcome to join us on our journey by following our blog posts. We’ll keep you up to date with things we are doing and send you our photographs. You can comment on them or ask questions and we’ll do our best to answer them.
Miss Gill and Mrs Maynard, from Kolkata with love x
Further adventures in India... 
We hope you have a happy, fun time- we love the Hastings children!
from The Infants
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Hello Mrs M and Miss Gill.
All the juniors are missing you already. Nancy and Emmy ask what the food was like on the plane and how long was the flight. Holly asks if you were happy to see the Kolkata children again. Joseph and Isla ask what time it is in Kolkata. Emily asks what you first did when you got there. Alex and Tamsin want to know if the children are well behaved and if they are the same children as last time. Lucian wants to know if there were televisions on the plane. Shohei wants to know if there are people begging for food. Joseph also wants to know if children are grouped into Y6, Y5 etc.
We look forward to your answers!
The Juniors
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Hello you lovely lot, we have just arrived at the hotel. It’s 10.30 on Saturday morning. Top tip…..if you turn your watch upside down that is the time in Kolkata- how amazing is that!
We are not at school until Tuesday.
Yes we all ad our own TV on the plane and the food was ok- I had chicken and rice.
The journey from the airport was just as chaotic and we have already seen much poverty.
That’s all for now- will tell you more tomorrow. Mrs.M xx
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