Shepherd’s Bush Professionals
Wednesday 15 May: Let’s Visit the Archive and Meet the Professionals! That was fun! Miles Coverdale Year 3 class today visited us at the Lilla Huset in Hammersmith to meet professionals working on future plans for Shepherd Bush Market and to visit the Hammersmith & Fulham Archive & Local Archive Centre. After hearing from the architects and hearing all about the potential changes and development at the market, children participated in a carousel of workshops to learn more about the work of the professionals. They looked at a model of Shepherd’s Bush Market and posed some tricky and brilliantly curious…
Exploring Shepherd’s Bush Market
Last Wednesday Miles Coverdale Year 3 set off to Shepherd’s Bush Market to explore its stalls, shops and stories. The children completed a trail looking at all of the various goods sold today at the market and were able to meet many of the marketeers also. They saw bangles & belly-dancing outfits, fish & fruit, jewellery & jugs, household goods, hijabs & halal meat, rugs & reggae music, west African foods and fabrics, shoes, eels & electronics, crabs & children’s toys, a parrot and a whole lot more! Year 3 learnt how some shops had been there a long time;…
Discover Hidden Chelsea!
Join us for a friendly walk through beautiful Brompton cemetery, historic Chelsea riverside and Battersea Park on Thursday 30th May. We meet at 1pm outside the Old Brompton Road entrance of Brompton Cemetery. Bring your oyster card to bus back. Contact Moya 020 8741 7138 to book a place. …
Shepherd’s Bush Market Project Kick Off!
Last Wednesday Emily met Miles Coverdale Year 3 to kick of our Heritage Lottery Funded Shepherd’s Bush Market project. In the classroom we learnt about the project and what we would be doing for the next 10 weeks. We looked at what we already knew about Shepherd’s bush Market by answering a questionnaire. Most children knew something or a lot about the market and many said that they visited the market at least once a week. The children are particularly looking forward to visiting the market, helping to make a film, and learning outside of the classroom. The children looked…