Thursday 22 August 2013

Hello From Girvan!!



Our beautiful seaside town and lovely South Carrick villages have enjoyed a nice summer with plenty of visitors! However, this has not stopped our dedicated team of tutors and students from meeting! All through the summer they have continued to meet in the Carrick Opportunities Centre which thrives with all sorts of activities-yoga, therapies for Carers, lip reading, confidence building courses, textile courses (CLD).The Job Centre is also in the centre with Adult Learning and Community Learning and Development!
This environment suits our students very well. Many of our students come from small villages and knowing people are coming and going for various reasons puts them at ease, confidentiality being very important to them.
 As well as our one to one pairings we also have a reading group for our ESOL learners and any of our other students who would like to build up their confidence within a group. In our group we choose a book or short story which I read out loud, we discuss the plot, characters, etc and then the students take turns in reading it back. I give help with pronunciation and meaning of words. They all encourage each other and have fun! We have students from all over the world because many come to work at Turnberry Hotel. At the moment we have people from Italy, Spain, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, China, Mauritius! and Scotland! If you, or anyone you know, would like to come along it takes place on a Tuesday morning from 9.30am-11.45am in the Carrick Opportunities Centre, Henrietta Street, Girvan. Telephone number 01465 716600 and just ask for Elaine Fitzsimmons.

Finally we have a punctuation and grammar session that meets on a Tuesday from 11.45am-12.45am where any problems are gone over.   This is popular with our ESOL students, so we have it directly after the reading group. It is available to everyone though.

If at any time you are passing through Girvan please come in and see me! I am the Literacy Development Worker you don’t often see and I would love to meet you!

Elaine

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