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Telford Schools link up with Greece and Sweden
Pupils from the Abraham Darby School in Madeley and the Blessed Robert Johnson Catholic College in Wellington will be linking up via the internet with pupils from schools in Visby in Sweden and Edessa in Greece. This is part of a project launched by the Organisation of World Heritage Cities to encourage young people living in or near a World Heritage Site to share their experiences with young people from World Heritage Sites in other countries. This school- twinning project called “Youth on the Trail of World Heritage” will involve the pupils in a variety of activities during the 2004/05 school year which will enable them to learn more about their own World Heritage site and that of their partner school.
Slopmoulders…….
and slip, puddlers and parachutes, jiggers and jollies are some of the components which can be discovered at the Ironbridge Gorge Museums. In the last 12 months 17,600 Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin school pupils have done just that. Education groups can take advantage of focussed workshops, ranging from designing and making parachutes and buggies, creating clay faces and landscapes, to using intaglio printers, making a brick by hand and becoming detectives of the Gorge’s past. Pupils can also explore the various delights of the ten museum sites in their self guided organised groups. Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin schools make up about 30% of overall number of visits the Museum gets from education groups, many of them return year after year to sample the delights of this very special place.
Telford Schools World Heritage Project
Telford College of Art and Technology Travel and Tourism students have been working with children in primary schools within the Borough to raise the children’s understanding of the meaning of heritage. The project started in 2002 as a collaborative exercise between TCAT, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and the Borough of Telford & Wrekin. Using Ironbridge as the focal point the students worked with the children using art, poetry, quizzes, etc, to look at; personal, community, national and world heritage.
Staff and students have presented at conferences in Sweden, Russia, Austria and Greece. As Dave Askins, Course Tutor acknowledges, “It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it”! Twelve schools were involved in the project this year and in May a Seminar was held to look at the achievements of the project and explore the potential for enhancing the curriculum. A small working group has been working hard to develop the project and the use of heritage in the school curriculum. A conference will be held in September for schools to raise awareness about World Heritage and the important role it could play in educating our children.
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