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We have had a lovely busy day today in the hot sunshine. At 9am we travelled to the boys school where we had taught the teachers. It is a private school and one of the best in India; certainly the opposite ends of the spectrum from the CRS slum schools we have all been teachingContinue reading “Celebration day 🎉”

Teddy Edward came to Hastings with us today and the children loved him. We did lots of rhymes and counting and then gave the children paper plates to make faces so that they could practise the names of body parts that we learned on Tuesday. We did some multiplication and showed them how to drawContinue reading “Teddy Edward makes lots of new friends”

It’s been another busy day, starting with our second morning teaching the teachers. This time we were showing them ways to work on English prepositions with their children. For some of them it was difficult just to learn to pronounce the words and then to use them in a sentence. With others we got intoContinue reading “Making India’s national news”

Hi Everyone! Today we have seen two very different aspects of India – life in the city and life in the countryside. We were taken out to a rural town called Diamond Harbour where CRS(Cathedral Relief Service) have another school. We were greeted by some beautiful girls who showered us with petals and blessings. WeContinue reading “Life on the street”

Hi All Mrs M here! We have had a busy but best day with our Hastings children. We arrived at the school at about 10am and we thought we had gone to the wrong place!!! The children wore lovely dark blue uniform looking very smart (although most still had bare feet), there were desks forContinue reading “Every day’s a school day!”

What a busy day today has been! We have been at the biggest of the private schools in Kolkata, La Martiniere, who let us use one of their halls to do our training with the Cathedral Relief Service schools. Mrs M and I led a session about teaching the children about parts of the bodyContinue reading “Hard at work with the CRS teachers”

Because it was a holiday for everyone today there were so many people around and the women looked gorgeous in their bright and blingy saris.We started the day at the cathedral with a lovely service and then breakfast. Next we walked around a park to see everyone out celebrating National India day but we missedContinue reading “Happy National India Day 😍🇮🇳”

So, once we’d caught up on a bit of sleep the CRS team took us out on the buses again to see the Eco Park. It’s a huge community park with lots of playgrounds and space to play ball games or have a picnic and plenty of interesting things to look at. It’s so enormousContinue reading “Around the world in 80minutes”

We have flown more than 5000miles today! We met at Birmingham airport yesterday and set off on a beautiful plane called ‘The Spirit of Diversity’. In the middle of the night we landed in Dubai and had to run across the terminal to catch our connecting flight to Kolkata. Rig and his team met usContinue reading “We’ve arrived!”

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 stillContinue reading “The story so far”