A celebration of the Trace and Place project exploring what community cohesion means to children and young people living in this rural area.
Trace and Place Project - Young people from four schools in and around Tenbury have produced a film highlighting what it is like growing up in their area.
Children from Malvern Parish Primary School took part in this creative school and community project for the Malvern Time Capsule by creating historic podcasts.
This creative school and community project hosted at Lindridge Primary School included a series of family learning sessions inspiring children and parents to use creative digital media together.
The local community in Malvern are making history by creating a time capsule for the new community hospital to be opened in 2048 on the anniversary of the NHS.
Abberley Primary School reflect on their historical journey and encourage other schools in the Martley Pyramid to get involved in creative school projects.
Trace and Place, Community Cohesion Project
Tenbury Cluster of schools is 98.6 % white British and although community cohesion is included as part of the citizenship and PSHE curriculum, the Primary School Education Improvement Advisor [EIA] has identified that in one of the local schools there were not sufficient opportunities for children to celebrate multi-culturalism and that it would be advantageous to develop a pyramid festival to explore and celebrate some different faiths and cultures.
Tenbury Community & School Cluster have delivered a community cohesion project over a whole academic year highlighting the local heritage and cultural differences of the rural area. Each school took a part of the project appropriate to their school development requirements and came together to showcase the work at a Youth Art cultural festival at The Regal Cinema on 4th December 2010.
The project focused on all key elements of the "Arts" including dance, music, visual arts, and drama.
As part of the project four children from each school took the role of young documenters and documented the whole project with the support of a professional film maker and photographer. They created a professional film/DVD that can be used in any school/setting in the County/Country, the Institute of Community Cohesion has requested that this project is a national case study demonstrating good practice!
The film that the young people produced can be seen above.
