We have just completed our first intergenerational project between the clients attending the Day Centre on Wednesdays from the Sixmilebridge, Kilkishen and Cratloe areas, and the transition year students from Sr. Caimins School in Shannon. This has been a wonderful experience for both groups who participated in 4 seperate projects over a number of weeks. In addition to the project both groups got to know eachother, played board games and the students played music to which everyone danced and enjoyed.
Students designed, constructed and painted a bridge which symbolises the bases on which this project was based. This was done under the stewardship of one of our clients, Mr.Jim O’Brien from Cratloe who has a background of having worked in engineering while in the army.
The Gardening group consisted of students and clients who had an interest in gardening and between them they identified some of the many plants, trees and flowers growing in our heritage walled garden and produced a beautiful collage
The Knitting Group worked together on producing a lovely wall hanging. In this group the ladies were passing on this skill and tradition to the students. They also made beautiful tea cosies
The hurling and fishing project was spear headed by Jack Lynch, Pat O’Brien and Ger Bentley from Sixmilebridge and Cratloe. They passed on the vast knowledge they have to the students on how to made a hurley (which was made for the project by Jack), the fishing locations in our locality and the types of fishing flies best suited.
