Exhibition Time...

Lessons in Time project was exhibited alongside other People Around Here work from young people in a public exhibition space in The Cardiff Story museum in the city centre.

The work was greeted with much enthusiasm and the interactive work is still up for the general public to engage with.

We don't need no education....

So far: (We =PAH and Pupils and Volunteers)

1 – We  looked at Maslow’s pyramid of hierarchy as a foundation to human needs 

2 - We then looked at how this relates to school and education and what school provides or fails to provide in regard to basic human needs

3 - Built a Maslow’s triangle from timber with graphic illustrations and turned it into an interactive display for the public to fill in questionnaires about their school life

4 - Looked at the ages of school and researched some key facts of what policies etc were implemented in what years…also looked at fashion as ways of distinguishing decades for graphic representation and interactive display.

5 - Built 8 mini blackboards each representing a decade in education history.

6 - Decorated them with quotes and images 

7 - Created report cards for the general public to fill in about their school life.

8 - We also had 30 plus pupils create a portrait of themselves with a good and bad side of their experience of education

All the above were then put into an exhibition at the Cardiff Story Museum:

21 April til 22^nd May

All the above are the foundation phase into understanding the role and impact of education before launching into the interviews so that we can frame our questions well to get the best information for phase three.

In phase 02 the pupils will be trained in media and oral history  techniques and then interview older members of the community to gather local stories about time spent at school and how it is different from now.

 

 

Lessons In Time...the project begins

What is the Project?

St. Teilo’s High schools in a creative heritage project over 2years. Pupils will have the opportunity to learn film production skills and create films exploring the heritage of education in their community. They will develop heritage skills through working closely with Cardiff StoryMuseum, learning how to collect oral histories and use other research methods, gain accreditation from

Agored Cymru. Working with Communities First and local history groups, they will meet and interview

community members about their experiences and memories of school life.

The young people will play a key role in developing Lessons in Time. During the application stage, we are

working with pupils from St. Teilo’s High School to develop the project using creative workshops to inspire

project planning. When the project is underway, the young people will continue to shape the project and have

the opportunity to produce a creative response to their findings with the support of artists, using different art

forms to interpret the heritage they have discovered, explore their personal response to it, and share their

learning with their peers resulting in community exhibitions and at Cardiff Story Museum.

This a project funded by The Heritage Lottery 'Young Roots" program.