Michael Faraday School – Bridge to Nowhere https://bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk Burgess Park reflecting back in time Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:06:32 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/cropped-BridgeRed-1-32x32.png Michael Faraday School – Bridge to Nowhere https://bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk 32 32 Storytelling tour gallery https://bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/storytelling-tour-gallery/ Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:18:53 +0000 https://www.bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/?p=117 Photo of storyteller and children Photo of children holding hands and stretching under the bridge to nowhere to discover how wide the canal was. Photo of Storyteller and children Photo of Storyteller and children

Listening to stories from the past involved a bit of ukulele and role play. After each story-walk, the pupils went back to the classroom to develop their creative writing skills. Their work will be incorporated into our future heritage walk.

]]> Telling the story of the park https://bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/telling-the-story-of-the-park/ Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:33:06 +0000 https://www.bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/?p=98 Continue reading Telling the story of the park →]]> Year 5 pupils from Michael Faraday School  and Gloucester Primary explored Burgess Park to learn about its history with local storyteller Vanessa Wolf.

Tiled image of the Camberwell Beauty butterfly
Learning about the Camberwell Beauty tiled picture on the side of the Old Baths House on Wells Way

The storytelling walk helped the children discover what the park would have been like before and after the war. They had to imagine the park as it would have been – full of houses, shops, factories and a canal. The storytelling sessions involved lots of role play, singing, creative writing, tasting and smells!

See more pictures of the children touring the park.

St George's Church
Formerly St George’s Church, this building stood next to the Camberwell branch of the Surrey Canal
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