Community Sarisbury Green care home residents team up with youngsters for writing scheme By Lucy Roberts Contributor Published 9th Aug 2024, 11:38 BST Comment Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 Visit Shots! now Care home residents in Sarisbury Green are set to pen their wisdom and advice to schoolchildren as part of a unique intergenerational initiative. Care UK’s Ancasta Grove, on Barnes Lane, is launching a new ‘pen pal’ scheme with pupils from Sarisbury Infant School. The project involves the youngsters each teaming up with a care home resident to write letters sharing their life experiences, helping the different generations to explore each other’s personalities and learn from one another.
As part of the initiative, children have been making bi-weekly visits to the home to build relationships with the residents – with a view to later becoming pen pals. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues.
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. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Notice and Terms of Service apply. The Mayor of Fareham, Councillor Pal Hayre, paid a special visit to the home to give her official bl.