In April of this year I began voluntary work as a Pooh Bear Reading Assistance Society member. I was assigned to Stockwell Primary School on the Greatfield estate in East Hull. On the first day there, the teacher welcomed me with gusto and asked if I would be willing to help out on any other days for an hour or so, but with drama rather than the reading help I was assigned to help with on a Wednesday morning. I was actually quite pleased to be asked and only too happy to help with this. So, as well as attending the school each Wednesday morning since then, I have also been going in on a Friday afternoon from 1 till 2.30pm to take drama lessons with the tutor for Year 4 children. These sessions have usually involved the whole class, and I thought they had a lot of talent and seemed, in the main, fairly interested in the games and role-play sessions that I created for them. I was usually greeted with a resounding cheer from the whole class each time I walked into the classroom, which always made me smile! I also found the children polite towards me and they were generally well behaved. Last Friday was my last session with them and I was overwhelmed and touched by the fact that each child in the class that day had made me a thank you card for taking the drama sessions! I have taken a photo of the cards as a whole, just to show what a lot of work had gone into these. I hope to continue with these sessions next term, although it will be a whole new class of children.
A simple thank you expressed in this way makes any voluntary work so much more worthwhile and I am very grateful to the children and their teacher for doing this.
Thank You Cards
Awwwh, that is so sweet! Well done!