CHILDREN’S LETTERS OF HOPE
CHILDREN from Year One at a Plymouth primary school have written touching Christmas letters to the elderly residents of a nearby care home.
The five- and six-year-old pupils of St Matthew’s CoE Primary and Nursery Academy, Derriford, penned the letters to residents of
Tamar House to wish them well at Christmas.
The children told the old folk how they celebrated Christmas, asked them questions about their own lives and sent them a message of hope for the future in a difficult year.
A teacher at the school said that
in previous years children in the Nursery at St Matthew’s had been to sing for Tamar House residents at Christmas. “They couldn’t go this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, so we thought it would be a nice gesture if Year One pupils each wrote them a letter,” she added.