Thursday, December 18, 2008

Cardiff Preparatory School Visit










Cardiff Preparatory School
As I started to get back into the world of photography I decided to start with a local school, the Cardiff Preparatory School that we drive or walk by every day. The children’s school uniform is hot pink shirts with black slacks or skirts. And most of the school’s buildings are painted pink. The head mistress said I could take pictures but since it is a private school she also hoped I could help with some assistance for the school. The school consists of a nursery and six years of elementary school. Though the nursery is very crowded and confining for the little ones with more than 40 students aged 3-6 the other classes are relatively small in size. They go to school from 8 to about 2:30 with the nursery ones leaving at 12:30. This is in comparison to most government schools which have class sizes of 40 or more and either go in the morning or afternoon for about 4 hours a day. And since for very little money you can send a child to school I said I would try to help. So I am hoping I can interest some of you in helping to sponsor some of these children…but more about that later. I had a great time taking pictures and fortunately all my back pains seemed insignificant. The light was really lovely and the children seemed to be eager learners. Several days later I took my computer back to the school to show what I had taken. The students had a great time seeing themselves in the pictures as you can see.

4 comments:

Beate said...

Those are fantastic pictures.

Jeffrey said...

These photos really are amazing. You have such a wonderful talent.

Raven Tynes said...

We'd love to help sponsor some of these children. Let me know how we can make this happen, and I could possibly start a community event to raise money for the school and the children there.

oh, and I love reading the blogs you guys post and checking out the pictures.

raven
raven.tynes@gmail.com

Angela Young said...

Those are precious pictures! Let us know more about sponsoring children.