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Social Action Week: School choir sings at Bloomfield Care Centre

NEWS / 9 December 2011

Choir members, Tim Cullen (3rd Year), Carmel Grey (2nd Year) and Jorden Bukspan (3rd Year) tell us how they felt singing at Bloomfield Care Centre, Rathfarnham on Sunday, 27th November as part of Social Action Week (Mitzvah Day).

Stratford College Choir at Bloomfield Care CentreStratford College Choir at Bloomfield Care CentreStratford College Choir at Bloomfield Care CentreChoir members, Tim Cullen (3rd Year), Carmel Grey (2nd Year) and Jorden Bukspan (3rd Year) tell us how they felt singing at Bloomfield Care Centre, Rathfarnham on Sunday, 27th November as part of Social Action Week (Mitzvah Day). Ms. Charry, Ms. Gordon and Shelley Bukspan accompanied the choir on the visit.

"The highlight was the old man reading a piece from the bible", said Jorden Bukspan (3rd Year). Tim Cullen (3rd Year) said that the choir sang for "about half an hour. It was lovely to put a smile on their faces and some people cried with joy". "There was a woman shouting 'thank-you' from coming!", remembers Carmel Grey.  (Click on thumbnails to open an enlarged version of image.)  

[Photos: Ms. Charry]

 

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