As part of an Assignments lesson on Friday afternoons, during the next few weeks, Grove Hill FE Centre (part of St Catherine’s School) is going to be helping the Town Mayor, Susan Scoccia and Community Project Manager, Mark Compton-Hall, with the Ventnor Town Plan, under the Community Values section: ‘Access for All’.
This will include looking at key facilities such as: the Library, Boots, Lloyd’s pharmacy, the Post Office, The Winter Gardens, Somerfields and the Doctor and Dentist’s surgeries.
A group of learners will be walking around Ventnor’s town centre, on a selected route, this Friday 14th March.
During this walk the learners will be conducting a survey about access into the main shops / facilities in the town and the state of the pavements and walkway routes.
The groups will be taking photographs on their chosen route in order to document the survey. They will be considering access from the point of view of people with a variety of disabilities, but particularly those with limited mobility.
Pavements and entrances/ doorways will therefore be the focus of the survey to see how accessible Ventnor is for everyone, locals and visitors alike!
As you are all probably aware, St Catherine’s is a national charity working with children and young people with speech, language and communication impairments.
Its residential centre on the Isle of Wight encompasses a specialist main school and a further education centre.
Painting by Maria Ward of St Catherine’s reproduced courtesy of the school and copyright remains with them.
