The activities completed on a school visit are often suggested by local built heritage found on the ‘Built Heritage Bingo’ walk and talk. Using place-based learning to connect with local heritage, landscape and architecture, we discover the building types and layers near your school.
Some curriculum based subject ideas include:
Design: Discovering the influence of Classical style on the everyday architecture of Irish towns and villages.
Materials: Using window glass as a case study, pupils investigate the effects of technology on the buildings we use. I bring mini versions of hand blown window glass, made specially to show how traditional window glass was once made. This reveals how glass manufacture and its limitations influenced the design of our buildings.
Technology: Pupils use lego blocks to build strong quoin stone corners.
Drawing: Recording local building features.
Construction: Select a local heritage buildings and make a carboard copy as a resource for the school.
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Here are some schools that I’ve been to and the projects that we've made.
Out and about in Galway City looking at stone columns on the Courthouse.
Drawing your own house homework. Pupils often look closely and discover lots of details of domestic Irish architecture.
From the oldest to the youngest.
Using principles of The Goden Rectangle students design their own 19th century shopfronts
Pupils head out and about to see what there is to discover locally.
This building today was once the local bakery.
Shown in this old photograph of the same buildings brought in by one of the pupils. We investigated what stayed the same and what had the changed, including the new PVC windows and closure of the shop.
Finding layers of heritage around the town.
And finding some heritage of the future.
A mid-century modern sunburst gate.