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Young and Old : Love and Loathe

Eleven of Macclesfield High School’s Year 8 students met with elderly people in East Cheshire Hospice recently and chatted to them about what they love and loathe, the theme of the East Cheshire Hospice Arts Project.

The project was established as a result of the “End of Life Care Strategy” published by the Department of Health in July 2008 to promote awareness and to change attitudes to death and dying. Hospices nationwide have accepted that they have a responsibility to work with communities of people in order to integrate the concepts of death and dying into everyday lives in a healthy and non-threatening way. 

Macclesfield High School students worked on art and poetry projects and handed over their work to patients at East Cheshire Hospice on Thursday 25th March.  Mr Harrison, Headteacher, said: “I am very proud indeed of these students and for the work they have done in enhancing the lives of terminally ill patients”.

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