Bazalgette’s London Winter 2020 Update
It’s been a tricky year of course, we all know that but we have tried our hardest to stay focused and deliver our Bazalgette’s London project at schools and local community groups with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Some of the activities we’ve delivered over the second half of 2020 included: Guided walks for Action on Disability during the summer. School workshops with Christ Church C of E and St Cuthbert with St Matthias C of E Primaries during the Autumn term. Guided Walks During the summer holidays, we organized two guided walks for our friends from Action …
New Portobello Road Black History Walk Film
During October 2020, Black History month, we shot a short film of a Black History walk in #Portobello Road for local residents and people interested in this aspect of British History. We worked with a local young actor and musician, Emmanuel Simon (Manny), as the storyteller. Manny did an amazing job, recounting some of the most interesting and relevant aspects of Portobello Road history. We filmed him on a walk along Portobello and Golborne roads, telling the story of this area’s rich black history and some of the most important characters, including the arrival of the Windrush generation, racism…
Young Explorers at Little Wormwood Scrubs!
During autumn half term some young people from North Kensington took part in our Young Explorers project at the Adventure Playground in Little Wormwood Scrubs. The challenge during the week was to design and build your own model from recycled junk.There were some amazing ideas during the designing process including ‘Robot Arm’, ‘Castle’, ‘Princess’ and ‘Flying Endeavor’. Young people recorded their design aims on paper and some of them made a little video as well At the end of the project on Friday, we held an exhibition of work to admire and discover more about each others models. Thanks to…
Old Oak : Sharing our ideas to improve our environment!
23rd October On Friday, our mini designers completed their URBAN STEAM project by presenting and filming their finished projects. The variety of ideas by the individuals and groups were pretty impressive for Year 4. Throughout the presentations and the project overall, it was clear that Old Oak children care a lot about their environment being built using recycled materials, having clean air and they take heed of the words of influential environmentalists such as Sir David Attenborough. This was echoed with ideas about encouraging more bees back into the local environment! The current pandemic also played a strong emphasis in…
Finishing Touches for Old Oak STEAM projects!
16th October This week was our final week of making our designs. We added our finishing touches to our designs and filled out an evaluation. We looked back over the project and celebrated our successes and thought about what we would change if we were to do the project again. We have decided we would like to present our work to members of staff at school. Miss Hepworth is kindly going to record the presentations of our projects so we can email them to our parents. In a normal situation our parents would come into school and watch an assembly…