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Project Progress December 2005
Covent Garden and Holborn Young Trails
COVENT GARDEN AND HOLBORN YOUNG TRAILS Easter 2006
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Covent Garden and Holborn Young Trails
Location: Camden
Covent Garden and Holborn Young Trails
‘Encouraging young people to find out more about their local environment, particularly local history events, and the places and the buildings associated with them. It helps them to explore urban environments and to use local resources to find out more about the history of specific areas in the borough. The aim is to enrich, challenge and extend children and young people’s learning opportunities outside the classroom and increasing young skills ‘.
Sue Morris, Out of School Learning Manager, Camden Council
After School Workshops
Each week, after school, supported by school staff, the participating children work with external consultants focusing on different aspects for the Guide. The external consultants cover a wide range of skills, from design, history, research, to archaeology, and performance. The workshops are designed by the consultants, introducing the children and young people to a plethora of new skills and activities, many of which are interactive. The workshops are also an opportunity to build the research and text for the guide.
The design workshops have explored how the colour wheel can be used to make decisions about colour, and how colour can impact how and what is read and understood, and how messages are interpreted. The performance workshops include a strong element of actual performance. Pupils take part in ‘hot seat’ activities to explore what life was like in the past, and become characters from the past. They are then questioned by their peers; ‘are you rich?’, ‘what are your clothes made from?’, where do you live?’, what did you eat for breakfast?’
Example of the ‘Hidden Holborn’ Archaeology Workshop
Each trail has a limit of 12 pages in the final guide. Pupils are asked to begin to sort out the most informative and interesting text and photographs and then it is time for them to vote. The consultant reminds the pupils of all the places on the trail that they have visited, and they choose some of these to write about as well as to briefly mention as a place worth visiting. Pupils have to make important decisions, based on the most interesting and unusual elements; should they for example, talk more about Senate House, rather than the British Museum, or the Old Dairy Pizza and blue plaques, rather than the Eisenhower Centre?
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