A couple of weeks
ago I submitted a proposal to ‘Made in MK’ for a small grant to work with teachers
from our five participating schools - Loughton First School, Loughton School,
Holmwood School, Christ the Sower Ecumenical School and The Grove Independent
School – to run some art and storytelling workshops based on a ‘scarecrow’
theme. Sadly, I heard today that the project had not been shortlisted.
The objective would
have been to provide a stimulus to scarecrow building, by demonstrating a range
of solutions and sharing a cache of recycled and hand made materials suitable
for the schools to use to construct their scarecrows.
The reasoning was that talking about how to
build a scarecrow would have enhanced the children’s construction skills, while
describing the materials used to represent a scarecrow’s character would have widened
their vocabulary. The overarching ‘nurturing’ theme would have
allowed us to explore important environmental issues, such as
the use of scarce resources, farming and gardening, climate change and nature
conservation.
It's a shame that we will not be able to build
on the exciting project work that the schools are already making in Loughton, MK.
Sorry, everyone!
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