HOLLY LODGE SUMMER SCHOOL

Nanna Strawberry thoroughly enjpyed her visit to
Holly Lodge Summer School yesterday, Thursday 25th
for readings and activities from Nanna Strawberry Books.

There was good interaction from the pupils who will be
attending Holly Lodge Girls College in September and had
 therefore been invited to Summer School to meet each other

One lively girl described her dance experiences in New Brighton
and the opportunity on one occasion to have a look inside
its lighthouse on the shore.  She described climbing steps,
upward and  round and round to the top of the lighthouse.
It was good to learn that this well known lighthouse in New
Brighton is open to the public from time to time.

At the conclusion of Nanna Strawberry's readings and
questions, she was invited to present each participant with
a pre-prepared inscribed copy of  her book, No.6 in series,
Nanna Strawberry Remembers The Young Queen...and schooldays.

Her own schooldays were first at Winstone Road Primary School
(now Dovecot Primary School, on a different site) then at
Grant Road Secondary Modern (now site of Dovecot P S)
then to Holly Lodge High School for Girls (now called
Holly Lodge Girls College and in newly built premises in
former grounds of Uplands at Holly Lodge High School).

She  told her  young audience that she clearly recalled her
own first day at Holly Lodge, where new pupils were
gathered outside Sandheyes, and her mother led her to a
group of girls and said "This is Audrey, what are your names?"
Embarrassing as that was, she was now glad to report that,
amazingly, three of those girls have remained her life long friends
despite being dispersed in their future lives and following
different careers.  She hoped that many of the girls present
were now beginning lifelong friendships which may one day
even be passed on to their own children befriending each other.
There is something rather special in having friends who remember
their shared schooldays in youth, and growing maturity.

My thanks to Mrs Debbie Rhodes for liaising with me and
her assistance during my visit.

Love and best wishes to everyone at Holly Lodge,
from
Audrey Wilson MBE (ex Holly Lodge pupil Audrey Greenbank 1950s)
Author, Illustrator and Publisher , Nanna Strawberry Stories -for ages 3 to 80+
  
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