A small group of us were invited to a nature journalling session at Kew Gardens where we foraged for a variety of fungi. We then dissected them and produced some excellent observational drawings and paintings.
Kiyomi flew back from Japan the day before cooking club bringing fresh ingredients from Tokyo for her delicious Okonomiyaki. 16 lucky learners were able to enjoy this healthy and popular recipe.
Chief Executive Ruth Durant presented the work of Richmond EAL in a session on language learning outside ‘mainstream’ contexts, organised by Dr Virginia Lam, University of Roehampton, as part of The Language Show 2024.
Suzanne and Katie visited our EAL class in Richmond and distributed their new edition of the
very informative booklet with information about all the locally available health services. This was
followed by a very useful Q&A session with the learners.
On Thursday 12 th September, we hosted the first EAL Healthy Cooking Club of the new school year. Sevdiye, a newly enrolled learner, cooked a wonderful healthy traditional Turkish recipe for the 16 participants plus the three Office staff.
25 learners were able to visit Ham House and Gardens last week due to the generosity of the National Trust allowing free entrance to us for the foreseeable future!
We had a great trip to Kew Gardens with 19 participants speaking Cantonese, Arabic, Portuguese, Turkish, Quechua, Spanish, Ukrainian, Russian, Bashkir, Tatar, Bengali, Armenian, Japanese and Thai. We had perfect weather for a change!
On 13th June, we started our Walk & Talk with a visit to Marble Hill House where we were pleased to receive the typed transcript of the introductory video which is always playing as we walk in…
On 6th June we visited the Kitchen Garden at Marble Hill Park and Moon had her successful interview
with Harrison (Manager) and now has received her uniform and started her volunteering post!
