Author Archives: Sue Griffin

There’s a building I know in Dagenham. It belongs to a faith-based organisation, who’ve had it for a number of years. And it’s a brilliant example of why faith centres are the best places to connect with people. Faith centres are always about people. And […]

Monday 27th October 2014 saw the second of our Luton hub’s graduation ceremonies.  It was a tremendous privilege to be invited to join this – a real landmark in the lives of all the ladies involved! Staff, students and their children and even a daughter-in-law […]

Don’t sell yourself short Now – my maiden name used to be ‘Little’ and I’m only 5 foot, so I have a predisposition for ‘selling myself short’! But I’ve learned along the way that it’s amazing what people take in, even when you think you’ve […]

Star-struck luvvies! We were recently privileged to have a visit from our local MP to one of my Creative English classes, and suddenly we all morphed into different people! Gone was the dress-down feel; gone was the normal buzz of chitchat: out came the best […]

Did you hear what I said? There are four skills that speakers of other languages need: reading, writing, speaking and listening.  We often forget about listening, as it is something we kind of ‘do’ automatically. The work of our Creative English Programme has a special […]

Having fun is mandatory! The FaithAction Creative English team needed little persuasion when it came to planning a summer programme!  Hubs from various East London bases joined together to have fun during the ‘official summer close down’, providing opportunities to continue and cement relationships formed […]

Taking Creative liberties! I thought I’d share some tweaks I’ve made with a couple of Session Plans for Creative English. The beauty of this programme is that it contains 38 pre-prepared, highly relevant Session Plans for all our Hubs to make use of.  We have […]

A Question of Balance, Bed Bugs and Bengali (For those who are of the ‘Baby Boomer’ era, you may remember a rock group called The Moody Blues?  Hence the reference to one of their most successful albums during the early ‘70s!  For those who haven’t […]

Volunteer Progress I would like to take a serious moment in my blog today, because I have seen firsthand the effect that Creative English is having on an individual’s life. Yasmin (not her real name) came initially to our Ilford class.  She comes from Pakistan, […]

Day Six Celery and Cat Slippers in Newham! We now have a small core group, with new ones being added. They are all delightful! Took in a whole bunch of celery today, since hardly anyone had recognised this food card in last week’s activity. We […]