Diary
Pavilion Past Presentation at the Ocean room
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Over 240 people gathered in the Ocean room at Weymouth Pavilion, to hear children from Westfield Technology College and St Andrews gave a presentation about the Pavilion Past project, they have been working on. The children explained how they started the project in September 2006 with producing a website. Both schools then worked with the Dorset History Centre and found out about what an historian is and how to record history. The next group then explained a timeline of Weymouth Pavilion over the last 100 years. Following this a short extract of the film they have made was shown. Ending up with the children talking about the skills they have learnt doing this project.
Karen Bidwell, Inclusion Co-ordinator at Westfield Technology College, said: "This project has brought the two schools closer together in the first of, I hope, many projects. I think it has developed the children's lives in many ways. It shows how schools can benefit by working together."
Joe Stevens paid tribute to everyone who took part: "I'd like to thank the teachers and the teaching assistants from both schools, in particular Karen Bidwell, who has put in so much work to this project. Plus I'd like to thank all the participants who stepped forward and shared their memories with us, and especially those who agreed to be filmed. And importantly the children for all their concentration and hard work, they have been brilliant. It has been great fun working with both Westfield Technology College and St Andrews schools on this project."
The Mayor then came on stage, congratulating the children, saying how much he had enjoyed the presentation and how impressed he was with the work. He then presented them all with certificates in recognition of their work.
The general feedback afterwards was tremendous, with one audience member Graham Light, and interviewee in the film, remarking how "the film was excellent, really well done, congratulations." Linda Levi, another interviewee in the film, said, "what a great show, it was clear to see that you all worked so hard to get the presentation together, you should be very proud of yourselves. Thanks, for allowing me to share my memories." While Councilor Legg congratulated us on an excellent piece of work, saying, "even I learnt something new about the Pavilion."