Local children get creative in Discover Geenwich’s first exhibition

www.grub4life.com today reports that Discover Greenwich launched its first temporary exhibition Engaging Places’ Unforgettable Lessons.  The exhibition runs until 31 August 2010 in Discover Greenwich’s temporary gallery space.12-07-2010

Engaging Places is a web-based teaching resource led by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) in conjunction with English Heritage.  It supports teaching and learning through buildings and places and encourage children to connect with their local heritage and architecture as part of the school curriculum.

 Unforgettable Lessons follows the journey of 12 groups of young people who have been thinking about their local area; how it has developed, how people have shaped their place and how the place has shaped them.
 
The 12 Engaging Places projects being exhibited have been developed by teachers in partnership with local cultural learning providers across England. Two of the projects are based in Greenwich, one of which is being led by the Old Royal Naval College (ORNC).
 
The pupils have been encouraged to record and observe the wider built environment, and then apply what they have learnt to the Ferrier Estate where the school is based. The Ferrier Estate is a run down area of Greenwich, undergoing a large regeneration project, causing huge upheaval. The pupils are being encouraged to consider how where they live and learn can become more beautiful, in the same way that past occupants of the ORNC altered and changed their site.