Long Mead Meadow: Initial Teacher Training student cultural placement. Assessed learning resource (2019/2020).
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This learning resource, targeted at 8-9 year olds (Yr 4 pupils), aims to develop an interest in nature through performance poetry. It uses as a central stimulus the book The Lost Words by Robert MacFarlene and Jackie Morris, alongside a trip to Long Mead Farm. Words generated by the children in various activities, before and during their visit, are combined with memories, music and movement. The pupils learn about the work of performance poets and prepare to share their work in groups with others.
About Long Mead Meadow
Long Mead Meadow is a site recently opened up for educational purposes. It offers the rich diversity of an ancient meadow alongside an orchard boasting many varieties of traditional apples and pears, locally and from around the world. The site is home for and has frequent visits from local wildlife, including otters and badgers. It also offers a wealth of opportunities for hedgerow investigations and pond dipping .
A badger got into the [teaching] tent overnight... and turned everything upside down and strew all the teaching materials all over the meadow, which we discovered only shortly before the school was due to arrive for a hedge survey… Your students were fantastic.
Catriona Bass (venue owner)
Read more about Long Mead Meadow and their Biodiversity projects in the documents below:
1Long Mead County Wildlife Site Information Sheet.pdf00Combined Projects 2.pdf