Schools
The overall aim of our schools’ project is to involve children and young adults in exploring, understanding, celebrating and caring for the landscape, wildlife and heritage within the Medway Gap.
We have a range of projects for schools to get involved in including visiting experts, music art and drama and inside out. Each school within the Medway Gap will have the opportunity to work with Valley of Visions and develop a project to encourage the children to explore, learn about and celebrate their local area.
Completed projects!
Burham CE Primary School - with Valley of Visions support volunteers and pupils renovated their school pond whch had suffered a period of neglect during which it had become overgrown and unusable. The school now has 3 very dedicated and keen volunteers who maintain i once a week and the pond and wildlife area is now regularly and successfully used as a teaching aid. In addition to repairing the pond the VoV grant allowed the school to purchase and install animal homes and cameras; bought pond dipping equipment and have a field visit to Tyland Barn to observe a well established pond and how to pond dip.
Cuxton Junior School - Within the school grounds is a grass cut amphitheatre; VoV hs helped fund the recutting the steps and installing a stairway improving access to the sports field. The amphitheatre can now be used as an outdoor classroom as well as an area for music, arts and drama projects. The pupils produced designs illustrating how they wanted the amphitheatre to look.
Halling Primary School - Closely linked with our Bishops Palace project we have been working with the school children to increase their knowledge of archaeology and the medieval period and to create plans of how they would like to see the Bishops Palace grounds turned into a useable community area. The pupils' ideas will be given to the architect and be fed into the landscape plns for the site. The whole school was involved in workshops run by Maidstone Museum where the children handled medieval artefacts, made clay replicas and even learnt a Tudor dance.
