Thursday, 8 October 2015

Syrian refugees start school at Toulouse

This is a lovely story of refugee children who have been housed with their families in the quartier des Izards, in Toulouse. Yesterday 7 boys and 2 girls started school. A special class has been created for them to help with the language and the children were delighted. For them it was like Christmas says the Head teacher, actually she said
 "La découverte de l'école, c'est un peu le sapin de Noël avec plein de boules, ils sont très contents d'être là, assure Christine Duret, la directrice de l'école du Nord."
She also said the children had a lot of nostalgia for their own country and when they sang songs from home the children started to cry.
How do those little ones take in all that has happened to them? one cannot begin to imagine.
Laura says
Loved the story this morning about the Syrian children & their first day at school, heartwarming. Wouldn't it be lovely to see the same story relating to one of our local schools such as Caylus or St Antonin.