Tag: heritage education

Bowhouse Primary 6 Children Do History Most Horrible

Primary 6 children in Bowhouse PS have been thoroughly engaged with their Callendar House Performance Project “Callendar House’s History Most Horrible – The Battle”. This interdisciplinary learning experience involved collaboration between their teacher Mrs Marsh, and colleagues from Falkirk Council Growth, Planning, Sport and Culture team and Illuminate UK. This project helped the children to develop knowledge and skills in drama, performance, social studies and their local heritage.

The project began with an introductory visit to Callendar House and a tour which focused on the elements of the house’s history which linked with their performance script. Victoria and Keira from Illuminate then provided drama and performance skills workshops and led rehearsals with the children in their roles.   The children enjoyed learning about the components of a strong performance – considering voice, movement and the importance of presenting information confidently. They put lots of effort into learning their lines (with the support of family and friends).  This creative project-based learning experience came together in a performance for guests and families. The following feedback from some of the children captures the value and impact of this collaboration for learning.

Callendar House was great and very posh!  It’s a very big house and there was lots of luxury things to see.  They showed us a model of how much the house has grown from the olden days.  We like the games we play before we go on stage, especially ‘Zip, Zap, Boom’ – it’s so much fun!

Haylee and Lilymay

What we liked about the visit to Callendar House was that it was very interesting.  We have been so many times but never knew the story and now we do.  Victoria and Keira are very helpful with learning our script and giving us ideas to make our acting better.

Charlotte and Lily

The visit to Callendar House was good and we got to see lots of exhibits.  Our favourite part was the story of Mary Queen of Scots. We learned so much!  The warmup games are fun!  We are really enjoying our acting experience and our coaches, Victoria and Keira, are funny and nice!

Rosie and Jack

We walked around Callander House and played some games after the tour.  It’s a good place to visit!  We were given parts and a script and practised our roles until the end of the day.  I’m a judge, Robbie is a soldier and Oscar is a servant.  We were shown how to act out our characters before we practised on stage.  It’s great fun!

Nazar, Robbie and Oscar

 

Professional Learning Linked to the Antonine Wall

Child and romanWe are delighted to be able to offer practitioners in Falkirk schools and establishments some new professional learning linked to the Antonine Wall World Heritage Site. Patricia Weeks, Antonine Wall World Heritage Site Co-ordinator, Heritage Environment Scotland will lead this session and prepared the following information:

Find out more about how the Antonine Wall can help deliver outcomes and develop the capacities of Curriculum for Excellence in your classroom. The session approach will be cross-curricular, and will focus on what physical and digital resources are available to help you prepare and deliver a range of topics. It will cover: a short history of, and introduction to, the Antonine Wall; real and replica handling materials and how to use them; the new Antonine Wall website and how to make the most of the wealth of primary and secondary evidence it showcases; and how to use and access new digital resources in development such as a game and forthcoming site-based app.    Chn at Callendar House

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

Share information about the Antonine Wall with colleagues and pupils
Say how learning about the Antonine Wall could help them deliver elements of CfE
Create learning experiences based around the resources and support materials available

Participants will also receive a support pack on the day, with copies of teaching resources and promotional material to support future development of your own lessons.

The training takes place on 3rd March 2016, between 4-6pm, and is coded YMc26 in CPD Manager.