Azam collected Miguel, Jose Luis and Nieves from Fircroft and delivered them to Queensbridge School. Shirley was present to act as intermediary.
The three volunteers had a presentation ready to present but due to problems at school the Head teacher was unable to provide students for them especially as examinations were in progress. Instead a Spanish speaking member of staff took the volunteers on a guided tour of the school, explaining the rewards and punishments system and showing the volunteers all parts of the school.
They were then taken to the local free school known as “Reach” which only takes a maximum of 60 students all of whom were failing in main stream education. The students come from a cooperative of 14 local schools. Each week they do three days of curriculum education, one day of work based activity and one day of “fun” doing things they would never have chance to such as sailing, climbing, skate boarding etc.
Miguel, Jose Luis and Nieves were very interested in this as they spend a lot of time dealing with disaffected young people in Logrono.
Following this we all retired to a local café for coffee and discussion on how the morning had gone before Azam took them into BVSC to meet up with Priti for their trip to the Brasshouse Centre.
