Sunshine and No Snow!

It was great to be with Westborough's Year 4 students in the North Road Burial Ground on Tuesday 21st February on a lovely sunny day.  Year 4 pupils became Detectives choosing the memorials that they wanted to know more about.  We'll keep everyone posted on what we find out!

Please take a look at the lovely logos that have been designed for the Shared Spaces project by Year 4 on the Blade Education website:

http://www.blade-education.org.uk/projects.html

uploaded by Michael and posted by Alastair!

Ethan wanted to know more about the Elliott family plot -- if anyone knows anything please do get in touch!

Leyla is investigating Edmund Humphrey Speller's memorial -- please tell us if you know anything about this gentleman.

Year 4 Detectives start work on Monday on finding out more about their chosen people. 

Cold Day in Sutton Road Chapel

Team archive went to Sutton Road today to start the archiving.  It was rather chilly in the chapel in the Sutton Road Cemetery until we learnt to use the fan on the heater.  350 entries later we decided that very interesting Victorian handwriting is hard to read...

Hold the Front Page!

Congratulations to Year 4 for making the front of the Yellow Advertiser!

www.yellowad.co.uk/news.cfm?id=5019&commentsent=1&bid=0



Hope you all have a fantastic Half Term holiday and we'll see you on the Tuesday 21st February please remember your vests, coats, gloves and scarves!

Awesome Logos, First memories and Cub Reporters

Thanks again to Year 4 who have produced some really lovely logos for the project.  We're going to scan them all so everyone can see your brilliant work.

Today we learnt about some of the stories in North Road Burial Ground including that of Miss Snow and her cat Tiny that was supposed to kill the mice and rats at the local scrap yard, but instead visited Miss Snow.  Or the young girl who died in 1946 in an accident at Fairfax Drive whose name is no longer remembered. Or 11 year old Antonio Tiani, the son of the family that ran the sweet shot in North Road before the World Wars, who was killed by tuberculosis.  If anyone has more to add to our collection of stories please do get in touch at  sharedspaces@blade-education.org.uk we would love to hear from you!

We also learned about the first memories of everyone in Year 4 including that of
Ethan House who remembers being in a tigger suit as a baby and it being very comfortable!  If you'd like to see some more about this project take a look at two short films:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jtgu-Ufy_M
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1rG1lS4fXg

We'll be putting up the logos shortly on our website www.blade-education.org.uk and looking forward to seeing Year 4 after the half term holiday!

Balloons

Shared Spaces now has a new address at the Prittlewell Chapel in North Road Burial Ground.  We're looking really forward to working with Turning Tides and Catch 22 in the new office.

Also, the balloons that Year 4 chose to leave behind to cheer up the graveyard are still flying proudly and only one has been burst on a tree!

Looking forward to seeing you all on Monday!

If you want to know more about Shared Spaces in Westcliff-on-Sea

Shared Spaces Project

We are happy to announce that the Shared Spaces Project has been awarded Heritage Lottery funding, for more information please see the News page and for the latest updates on this project please see our Project Page...