Firshill School event
by Rashida Hassanali (Community Education Co-ordinator)

Saturday 11th October turned out to be a bright, crisp morning, ideal for football, cricket and budding artists. Over a hundred children and their parents, carers and families joined in craft, sport and IT activities for Family Learning Weekend at Firshill School.

Many families enjoyed ‘Beat the Goalie’ and football games with Patrick Edwards and Craig Homer. Others stayed around for cricket coaching with Steve Taylor. Keep Fit for women and girls with Betty Croker was well attended. There was a real buzz about the school hall as groups of adults and children had a go at clay modelling, ‘hot’ beads and jewellery making, knitting, decorating cakes and biscuits, painting, printing and mehndi body art.

The IT room resembled an arcade with LearnDirect providing literacy and numeracy-based computer games. The talent in our community is a source of great pride and some of the children’s work and photographs of the event can be seen in a display at the school.

Many thanks go to Sheffield City Council Sports Development workers and Play Resources Team for their contribution to the day, and most of all to those parents and members of the community who worked together creatively to put on family learning activities and support the event. People are asking when the next Fun Day will be. I say Watch This Space!