The St Francis de Sales's award winning Intergenerational Luncheon Club had a very special visitor in the form of larger than life Rabbi Alex Goldberg who was part of the 2012 Olympics’ religious leadership. Mr Goldberg had lunch with the children and our older people.

They then went to year 2 in the infants and answered questions on transport. The children were amazed to hear that one of our visitors ,Bridie, used to walk 3 miles to school each day and would have to do it without shoes in the summer.

Rabbi Goldberg said” I remember Ford Cortina cars mostly, they were big and we did not have the variety of cars that you have today” Rose ,who was from the Caribbean, said “ We had cars and buses but I remember we had to travel on bicycles or horse&carts a lot”.

Teresa said “Only the very rich could fly because it was a year’s wage for a ticket, children did not fly unless they were very lucky” Ms Lalor the class teacher asked how many children had flown and most of the class had flown already thanks to cheap airlines.

The children had a number of prepared questions on transport as part of their topic and enjoyed hearing about how much had changed in the last 70 years.

Dr Lane the head teacher said" We are extremely pleased to have Rabbi Goldberg visit us at St Francis de Sales School , we want our children to understands all faiths "

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