Whilst visiting Green Light Trust's Foundry building and community woodland, pupils meet characters from the past. Actors bring to life real people who lived in and around The Foundry site from its origins in 1840. Through hearing their stories and working through structured learning activities, pupils create a blueprint for a future community.
The characters are based on research carried out by local Y3 children using primary and secondary historical sources. The day offers cross-curricular learning which supports work in Citizenship, PSHE, History, Geography, English, Science, Design & Technology.
What does the day involve?
The pupils arrive and enter
The Sustainable Past (1840-2000)
- Encounters with actors working in and around the building
- Story-telling
- Interpretation boards presenting facts and information
- Hot-seating, questions and answers
- Woodland trail
They then move inside The Foundry building to enter
The Sustainable Present
- Tour of the environmental features of the building
- Structured learning tasks including work-sheets and interviews
- Global warming story-teller
In the afternoon pupils then create their vision of:
A Sustainable Future
Working in role and using the 'mantle of the expert' approach there will be:
- Consolidation of learning from the morning activities
- Small group tasks to design carbon neutral homes or schools
- Work carried out through discussion, role play, interaction with actors and drawn designs
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