Malcolm’s story
To embark on a walk is a simple thing. To put one foot in front of another until you stop. The intention behind the walk, however, affects everything about its nature. The simple act of walking becomes meaningful …
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Renga: Dreaming the Land
During the first week of our Land Journey throughout the day we would take time to stop, consider, condense and write contributions to a communal Renga. Upon our return Malcolm spent an evening with Poet Linda France going through the …
Story creation with Hugh Lupton
Following our research into the different sites and the time we had spent working in their local communities, we set off to grow our stories – the fiction to compliment the facts that Paul and Jessica had shared with us. …
A Night on Yeavering Bell
I was working with the children of Glendale Middle School in Wooler, creating stories from the Iron Age hill fort on Yeavering Bell. We were due to go on a field trip and I decided it would be a good …
Glendale Middle meets Yeavering Bell
Had four brilliant days in Glendale School, Wooler school, where I worked with class four on stories associated with the iron age hill fort at Yeavering Bell. The history teacher, Jenny Hall managed to get the children off timetable, so …
Marks on the Rock: Storymaking at Lordenshaws with Rothbury First School
Time slipped away as the year 4 children of Rothbury first school shimmied between the zones on our trip from Whittondean to Lordenshaws. The stone-age became the bronze age which morphed into the iron age as we moved from cup …
Story creation at Thirlwall Castle
Four 4 days in May Chris Bostock worked with pupils form Greenhead First School to share, discover and create stories around Thirlwall Castle. Having an existing legend of lost treasure was of course a great spring board, but that didn’t …
Green Shiel
On a cold bleak day in April Jessica Turner and myself went over to Holy Island to see the medieval site of Green Shiel. I had never been there before and was quite impressed to find 5 rectangular shapes of …
Goatstones and Motte and Bailey
There’s always more preparation for a project than anyone thinks there’s going to be – research, meetings, planning and then if there’s going to be a making element, finding and buying materials, and more preparation depending on the nature of …