By Year 5 Students
Location: Village in the FensProject Title: Children’s accounts of special and favourite place in Rural East AngliaProject Description: Children provide a combination of image and text to illustrate places which have particular meaning for them. Collector: Drs Elsa Lee & Richard Irvine with teachers’ supportCollection Date: September 2014 to January 2015Collection Details: Either in classroom discussions or as take home activitiesexplanation
This is different as they did not do the homework activity so these notes are from a team work exercise where they wrote about their special places on a spider diagram.
Bowling in Bury I won a cookie
War Memorial to remember who died in war
Fields across the road by my house Picking Raspberries
Liverpool FC
Tottenham Hotspurs
Center Parcs in Elveden Forest because I got to play with my godmother’s son
My room because I like to play there.
My house, privacy,
my space (bed)
My nan’s house because I can see my Nana.
Swimming in Ely –
my first dive and belly flop.
Lithuania because my family live there.
Essex because I was born there.
Wales because my family live there am also Welsh.
Build a bear workshop.
Farm because I used to live on one.
Cambridge because I was born there.
Football.
Lincoln because my dad and sister lives there.
Sports centre because I go there often and I know everyone
My cousin’s house because I have got a baby cousin.
My home because it is cosy and warm
Home it is my home.
My dad’s work because I go there often and everyone knows me.
My mum works at Tesco.
Htehr4hall school (secondary) because my brother used to go there.
My dad works at the corner shop
and I go there because I miss him and I help him fill the shelves.
My brain because my brain is my world.
St Neots and Romsey because I used to live in these places.
My dad’s house.
Lapland
Going to Kessingland because the team stars know me very well and I go there nearly every weekend.
America Florida because I have been there twice and have a lot of happy memories.
Disney land and Turkey because I go there a lot.
Stables because they make me feel at home
and when I am upset they make me feel happy.
My old house in Fen Drayton because I was little I used to live there and I have memories of that.
My camper van in Wales because I am part Welsh.
M and M world because there is chocolate.
Family holidays because I am looking forward to them, they are exciting.
Petshops, lifelong memory, family, care, get a pet.
Argos
Playground
Football, friends from different schools, new friends
Holiday
Bedroom/house,
private
Computer, football game, happy.
Forest adventure, wildlife, tree, get creative
Graveyard, family
Spending time with your family
Lithuania born there
Portugal met some lovely people
Library because you can learn
Hotel so you can go on holiday
Fens VillageB church you can remember people died.
London grandparents born there.
Centre parcs wonderful adventures
School so we learn stuff
Home I live there
Thetford forest I had a lovely adventure.
War memorials you can remember the people that died.