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:: Project digest
Creative Partnerships, Thames Gateway
Synopsis
Lie of the Land is a three phase programme, linking elements of geography, science, history and English in the first phase, to explore the local history and the heritage of the community and land surrounding the school. Four artists are working on Lie of the Land at Briscoe’s Primary School. Sarah Cole, Isa Suarez, Julian Walker and Sophie Weeks are taking part in an unearthing of local history, trying to find out more about the school, its location and its inhabitants. Using sound recordings, metal detectors and GPS systems, the pupils, teachers, parents and local elderly people will be compiling a Briscoe’s Museum of artefacts, oddities, tales and tall stories about the site on which the school is built. This will include visits by an historian from the Essex Records Office who will bring old local maps and a census to the school, and two interactive performances by the British Library, entitled 'A Place for Everything?' One year group will also be going to the National Gallery for a lecture and workshop about making ‘new images from old’.
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1. Project aims (click a heading to expand)
:: The project concept
This is a three year project, and the aim at present is to build a database of information that promotes a deeper sense of identity for the school and its inhabitants. The Briscoe’s Museum will be launched in the summer term as an ongoing archive for the pupils to access and organise and will be the launchpad for the next stage of curious happenings and adventures.
:: Objectives
AIMS of Creative Partnerships Artist-and-Teacher work in KS2:
To explore ways of using the Briscoe's Museum as an evolving, cross-curricular resource and alternative teaching/learning/presenting space,
To examine what a museum does, what it tells us about the world and how it is a medium for enquiry rather than just a space.
To use creative practice as a way of encouraging the children's sense of independent and collaborative enquiry - setting up opportunities to test, examine and re-test results and ideas.
To use contradictory and divergent ways of thinking about a subject as a way of seeing thinking in action, (as an alternative to "the right answer")
To help the children see the results of their own thinking processes,
To encourage risk taking and process-based approaches to teaching and learning objectives as a way of engaging the children's enthusiasm for learning.
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:: 2. Project diary - the story of what happened
1 June 2006 This includes photos of the children working on the project, together with a written explanation...
5 July 2006 Photos of the opening of the Briscoe's Museum as part of the Lie of the Land project.
5 July 2006 The opening of Briscoe's Museum
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