Archive for January, 2008
Question Bank
This is the place for Creative Partners and teachers to store their questions about the topic, White City (the exhibition site, the 1908 Olympics and the area circa 1908 and since). We do know the answers to most of these, but this is simply for storing questions.
- What was there before the exhibition?
- Does anything of the pavilions [...]
Questions at the heart
We felt it is important that the Creative Partners are not seen as experts, teaching the children about history and culture, but that they show how they do research in their own creative work, inspire and guide the children to learn research skills, and help the children in turn to inspire others to do research. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Themes and Metaphors
In the planning meeting of Creative Partners we started by looking at the image of the symmetrical White City exhibition with its extraordinary pavilions. We discovered that there is a wonderful linking of themes and metaphors across this project.
Concentric circles
- Thinking about the starting point and limits of the exploration in this project, we drew circles [...]
The first workshop is next week!
Here are some practical details about the first workshop led by Sara Haq:
Monday 4th Feb, all day, St Stephens Primary
Tuesday 5th Feb, all day, Wendell Park Primary
Wednesday 6th Feb, all day, Wormholt Park Primary
Sara will use a range of strategies to get children asking questions and finding out about questions.
Sara is coming with an archive [...]
First post
Good as my word, I have created a site for everyone involved in the White City Story Archives. This will help us share all the thoughts, documents, pictures and creative work from the project. It will also help us share the project with a wider community, including parents of the schools involved, residents of the White City [...]
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