Our History Our Heritage
Workshops
Our History Our Heritage offers a variety of workshops for young people
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JOUNEN KWYEOL WORKSHOP
This 90 min creative workshop will enable 12 year 8 students to experience & learn something of St Lucian culture & Jounen Kweyol in words, food, a game, a song, using some recording of memories from 94 year old St Lucian Leome Martin. Students will taste fruit and soft drinks. hear music, learn a song some Kweyol words. Children will be guided to write short poems evoking their senses to respond to Kweyol culture
The WW1 world of ORLANDO MARTINS
(British Nigerian actor & WW1 Fireman 1895-1985).
British colonialism & it’s legacy for YEAR 5, 6, 7 through worksheets using archive images, & artefacts to chart significant events in Orlando’s life during the first half of the twentieth century. Five differentiated group activities show the world in 1914 through maps, archive photos and compiled resources: working as a stoker on a steam ship.
What happened to him after the war? Race riots in British ports, The jobs he undertook in the UK, why? Including his film and theatre career in Britain and back in Nigeria. Student work in small groups and creatively present their findings to their class peers. 90mins
The colonial world of Orlando Martins piloted at in 2014 Glenfrome Primary, Fishponds Academy, Colston Girls history club.
WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, STREET GAMES WE PLAYED, SONGS WE SUNG
Bringing in grandparents and parents into school to share and teach games and songs in mother tongue to the very young.
BETWEEN THE HEADLINES AND NEWS
De-constructing Old headlines from evening post in 1963 re Bristol Bus boycott, recent migrant stories and compared to recent new stories re migration. Piloted at Oldfield Girls school Bath. Years 7, 8, 9. 1 hr.
I HAVE A RIGHT!……..
​Creatively expressing ourselves in the playground. Oldfield Girls Lower School Bath July 2013
INVISIBLE LIVES
Ellen and William Craft 19th century runaway enslaved African Americans who lived in Bristol
Black Bristolians of the 17th 18th and 19th centuries was piloted at Colston Girls school in 2013. In the workshop, we look at tand imagine the lives of some of Bristol’s black population, mainly in 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, people we know so little about.
This workshop is for Year five upwards.
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A workshop with a local artist’s poem promoting knowledge and awareness of the presence and lives of a selection of Bristol ancestors little is known about. The aim is also to develop students listening, presentation skills, build confidence and self expression.
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To promote understanding of how the past influences the present, how black and minority ethic people have contributed to Bristol’s wealth. It is also an opportunity to explore feelings about injustice, learn about status, self esteem and power, help develop critical thinking skills and also to express oneself.
105mins
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We can also facilitate workshops for all of year 7, 8 students (piloted at Colston’s Girls in 2013)
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Students will hear, ‘I WONDER’, a poem by local artist and writer, Ros Martin, a poem dedicated to Black Bristolians, who lived in the city in 18th, 19th centuries, researched for the workshop. Working as a whole class, and in small groups, with pre-prepared archive material, students will re-imagine and consider the lives of some of Bristol’s black citizens living in the 17th and 18th centuries. They are:
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Cattelena one of the oldest recorded Black Bristolian woman
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Ellen and William Craft, Ellen who dressed up as a man to escape from slavery
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‘William Brown’ a woman who disguised herself as man to work on ships
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Sarah Parker Remond who gave a talk in Bristol against slavery
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Joseph Emidy a gifted musician
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A runaway from Captain Whyting
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Raja Ram Mohan Roy
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Olaudah Equiano
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Pero Jones whom the Bristol harbour bridge is named after
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Henry Parker who became a lay preacher at Ivy Church at the bottom of Ashley Hill
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Dinah Black A Bristolian who did not want to be sent away to a plantation against her will
105 mins
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A short slide show presentation will follow, contrasting the lives of affluent and propertied Bristolians during this time, with the lives of ordinary working Bristolians. Students in small groups, will consider how they might best prepare and present a scenario in the featured lives of one of 6 Black Bristolians. This could be in mime or as an evolving sculptured tableau to their peers. The session will end with a spoken word tribute and song to the memory of these ancestors.
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My Declaration of Self esteem
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A list of Rights
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A Talk, ‘Once Upon a Caribbean,’ given by Dr. Richard Hart
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An affirmation, ‘I stand Tall’ by Ros Martin
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An evaluation form.
Students receive a workbook provided with:
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Two poems will be given to students as take away activities for students to read before the session, we will return to them during the session. I Am Me Anon and I Stand Tall, by Ros Martin
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Workshop will be facilitated by either Ros Martin, Lilleith Morrison, Angus Brown, Valerie Mower.
OPEN SUITCASE: Refugee
Boy provided by two practitioners
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Interactive drama pieces based on the book: Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah from year 5 upwards. We ask that the class read the book before the relevant workshop or assembly takes place.
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A ten to fifteen min visual performance using speech and cloth aims to engage students to talk about the drama they are witnessing and encourage discussion of the issues raised.
Themes covered by the assembly or workshop are: journeying (leaving and arriving), loss, identity, self esteem and racism.
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For a 20 min assembly which can be followed by an hour’s class, tutor group workshop £150
OPEN SUITCASE: Amazing Grace
Compliments studies in ASYLUM MIGRATION, ASYLUM & SEEKING REFUGE Three interactive drama pieces based on the book: Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman, for reception year and year 1 children.
We ask that the class read the book before the relevant workshop or assembly takes place.
A ten to fifteen minute visual performance using speech and cloth aims to engage children to talk about the drama they are witnessing and encourage interaction.
This is followed by class small will a small group activity to feed back to rest of the group in drawing song, poem, song, rap small using their imaginations
Costs are total costs for two practitioners. £100 assembly up to fifteen minutes
£150 1hr Workshop £200 Assembly & workshop 1hr 15mins
School to provide paper and pens, percussion musical instruments and cloth