The third group of children from Year 4 had a brilliant time visiting the Robertson’s site at South Tyneside General Hospital. We had a chance to see different rooms which were nearly complete and find out more about the building process.

The site is for the new Care Hub for elderly people living with dementia and is due to be complete next Friday. Andrew, the site manager, told us about small cabinets outside of the room for relatives to put pictures and messages in to make the residents happy by reminding them of nice times in their lives. He showed us around the different rooms, which were all different colours and each area had a different name- all after plants and flowers.He also told us lots of other interesting facts, including over 52,000 bricks have been used to build the building and they have used enough cable in the building to wrap all the way around the world!

The children were very lucky to see the ‘almost’ finished project. The children all thought it looked like a hotel it was that good!