LEARN BY HEART Get ready to sob happy tears at these emotional and incredibly heart-warming stories of students and staff at local schools whose compassion, love and care shone during the Great Pause
WESTBOURNE SCHOOL, PENARTH
Dr. Gerard Griffiths, principal Tell us some optimistic stories that came out of the Great Pause…
Our boarding house kept going throughout lockdown and some students still have not seen their families since last Christmas as, during the initial lockdown, they could not leave the boarding house, so staff and local parents started to send them packages. It started with homemade baking, pizza deliveries, food parcels, drive-by waves, games to play, and outdoor equipment to exercise with in the garden. One family identi ed the different nationalities in the boarding house and started dropping off ingredients to make traditional meals from China, Vietnam, Russia and Hong Kong, and this led to students cooking national dishes every week to share with the other boarders to remind them of home.
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