Another old school, suitcases from Falmouth and English lessons in a chapel

Strangely enough, visit another educational establishment I once attended - this time my secondary school in Helston. Pure 60s. A palm tree on view from the Geography department window.

With teacher Joe Stuteley we plan assemblies for groups of 100 Year 11 students in March. The challenge being to change negative attitudes towards migrant workers. Joe identifies some of the prejudices he is aware of - which I will not repeat as they are not worth giving space to. However, forewarned is forearmed.
Then to University College Falmouth where the tireless Jack Seal, third year 3D design student, has put the finishing touches to a new set of suitcases, lined with maps of metaphorical journeys by illustrator Glyn Goodwin and designed by David Cross.
Jack will probably be the next Terence Conran. He ordered the material from a signage printer in Suffolk and asked for the designs to be printed double sided on plastic. The printer said the material wouldn't bend - and just couldn't be made into boxes. However, Jack persisted.They look fantastic.

Then to another evening English class for Lithuanian workers, this time given by Jacqie Levin, who seems to work tirelessly (and for some of the time, unpaid) delivering English lessons. This lesson is in a chapel near Breage. It is run by local churches and chapels - who wonderfully, after Let's Talk evenings a couple of years ago, decided to stage these classes to help local workers. The whiteboard behind Jacqie has been paid for by them.

Very cheerful Lithuanians in their late teens and 20s (all shy of being photographed). Two girls have come to join their parents who have lived near Goldsithney (not far off) for the past seven years. They are glad to be living with their parents after years of being looked after by grandparents, though, they say, they saw their parents during the holidays. Others are working in local meat processing factories. All are determined to learn English.
The class, reached after driving down dark lanes to an unexpected oasis of light and warmth, strangely seems to have something of the feeling of a religious movement or push towards enlightenment of a kind. People working together, determinedly, to improve their lives.