Healthcare hospital for children underway in Cambridge

Cambridge Children’s Hospital will be the first specialist such facility for the East of England.

Young people with an interest in the project enjoyed a visit to the site – opposite the Rosie Hospital – as the archaeological dig got underway.

Since Cambridge Children’s Network was launched three years ago, dozens of children, young people and families from all over the East of England have been involved in shaping the design.

The younger children, age 6-13, arrived first, with their parents and carers. Chris Wakefield from Cambridge Archaeological Unit, talked about the history of the landscape. Behind him, the archaeologists were busy scraping away layers of earth to reveal the Bronze Age and Roman field systems beneath.

This was followed by a 'show and tell' of artefacts found on the Biomedical Campus and in the wider Cambridgeshire area, with children and teenagers having a go at making their own Roman-style pots.

Members of the project’s Youth Forum (teenagers aged 14-18) enjoyed a site visit and had their first face-to-face meeting. They got to work thinking about the new hospital’s school and how to reintegrate back into mainstream school after being ill.