Our connection to local heritage is an important part of our offer to schools and community.
We work with partners to develop local knowledge and experience of culture through trips to cultural destinations and by collaborating with local artists, historians, and teachers. This helps to foster an understanding of history and an appreciation for the cultural industries and landscape.
A Temple to Water - Dragon Breath Theatre’s award-winning, immersive, day-long teacher led / actor supported visit to England’s finest preserved Victorian water works, Papplewick Pumping Station in Nottinghamshire.
Following a quest to discover how Victorian engineer Thomas Hawksley has responded to the scourge of cholera in C19th Nottingham, pupils arrive at Papplewick and ‘enter into the past’. Throughout the day they explore Papplewick’s beautiful site - including the magnificent Engine House, Boiler Room, Wash Yard, Green House, and the unique, awe inspiring abandoned Underground Reservoir. They meet characters from the museum’s industrial and social history, learning through empathetic interactions, installations, hands on, practical activities, and song.
The school visit is part of an education offer which investigates Papplewick’s local, social and engineering history, and its further significance as a site for considering the management of global water resources today. The visit is supported with cross curricula resources, an Interdisciplinary Curriculum Map, and accompanying resource posters published by the University of Nottingham Department of Education.
Developed over the last 10 years by artists, heritage experts, teachers and children, this visit can support a half term's thematic curriculum around water, science, geography, history, and literacy, and is focussed on Key Stages 2 and 3.
Schools visits to Victorian Papplewick Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire, part of an award winning programme of work....A day long experience for schools acting as a stimulus for an interdisciplinary water curriculum (see papplewickpumpingstation.org.uk)
Century of Change
Century of Change explores the history and geography of the old Sherwood Forest Hunting Ground leading up to 1850 and ending at 1950. The old Hunting Ground stretched from Ollerton to Bestwood, Mansfield to Newark.
Century of Change is one of eight projects delivered by Miner2Major, a Landscape Partnership scheme supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Miner2Major encourages local communities to get involved in projects that celebrate the diverse wildlife, important habitats and rich heritage of Sherwood Forest.
Miner2Major focusses on the heart of the Sherwood Forest area from Nottingham to Ollerton, and Mansfield to Rufford Abbey, an area that has a distinctive landscape character, which is recognised and valued by local people, as well as visitors from around the world.
The Century of Change project has created learning resources to support a local history curriculum, a Century of Change for primary schools. It will support them to work in partnership with heritage and community groups, artists and heritage venues to explore the legacy of the Century of Change (1850 to 1950). A key outcome of the project will be high quality learning resources and experiences that explore the Forest’s heritage, focusing on:
Gardens
Mills
Mines
Transport
Impact of War
For more information, visit centuryofchange.org
Century of Change is part of a National Lottery Heritage Funded Landscape Partnership Project, Miner2Major. Over a three-year period, from September 2020 to September 2023, Century of Change will work with 15 primary schools, cultural and heritage partners and community groups to reimagine Sherwood Forest as a rich learning resource. Together we will create high quality learning resources and experiences that explore the Forest’s history from 1850 to 1950 focusing on: Gardens, Mills, Mines, Transport and War.
