Curious Minds

Parents, Community and School working together

Pupils from St Gabriel's Church of England Primary in Huyton, a Year 2 Change School, have been working with creative practitioners (Emma Bramley, Gary Cunliffe, Amy Robinson, Gaynor McHugh and Susan Sumner) and their families and local community on a reminiscence project celebrating the cultural history of the school and community through drama, dance, technology and visual art. 

Creative practitioner Amy Robinson worked with Nursery and Year 6 pupils worked with Amy Robinson and the and the church sewing group to create a new school banner that was a symbolic representation of the school.   

The school is currently undergoing a complete re-build and as reflections of the past converge with a vision of the future a project has emerged and been embraced by the school and wider community. 

Memories, experiences, anecdotes and photographs have been recorded and shared in this cross-generational community project. Pupils and practitioners, with help from families and the community have worked together to create a multi-media drama production that was performed at St Gabriel's Church in Huyton on 15 July at 2.00pm and 6.30pm.

The project has encouraged positive links with parents and actively engaged them in the life of the school and their children's learning.