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Forest School
• Suffolk Primary school 220 pupils aged 3-9 in Brandon
• Predominantly working class with most parents employed in low wage occupations
• Mainly white British population with recent immigrants mainly from Eastern Europe and Portugal
Challenges faced by the school
• Meeting the needs of EAL children whilst maintaining support for SEN children
• Ensuring that newly arrived children and parents were made to feel welcome in a community that is quite insular in many ways
How the project came about• Based on a project developed in Scotland
and recommended by HMIe
• Funded by the Lottery’s
‘Awards for all’ fund
• Arose from on going
work developing further
cross-curricular approaches
to learning
Aims of the project
• To bring together the community of Brandon
• To celebrate the many different events that have brought us together
• To develop speaking and listening as a means to promote writing
• To develop cross curricular working by including artistic elements
Setting up the project
• Working group of teachers, TAs and governor to plan the project
• Timeline established so that there was enough time to carry out each activity
• Event planned where parents could come into school and work with their children
• Launch event planned
Elements of the project:Promoting Literacy
• Each child went home and talked with their parent about their personal history story- prompts were given so that parents understood what we wanted
• In school children told their stories to each other
• They then wrote and edited their stories
• Children were enthused by knowing that there would be a special book ‘properly’ printed
Our Book
Elements of the project:Promoting Creativity
• Children illustrated their stories• They also planned a design for their quilt square
based on their family history• Parents came in for an afternoon to help their
child make the squares• The squares have been assembled into banners
which have been hung around the hall as a reminder of each child’s family story
• There will be a special launch of the book with reading, dance and music in February
Our Banners
Promoting community cohesion
• The experience of working together, sharing stories and all having their stories collated together as part of Brandon stories has, we hope, promoted greater cohesion
• Evaluation of the project will take place following the launch of the book in February
Anna’s story