| We then got ready to go out. This
was our Memory Walk where everyone was invited to look around and notice
things and wonder what they’d remember. We walked down the hill towards
the sea, through the car park and over the little hump-backed bridge (some
newspaper dumped in the water there!). Then we walked along beneath the
castle walls till we could see the Boathouse in the distance. We stood
with our backs to the castle looking out to the estuary. We stood with
our backs to the estuary looking up at the castle. Some children already
had ideas about who or what might be in the room with the modern bay-window
at the top of the walls. Or the Mud Monsters that might be lurking in the
estuary mud.
Back in the hall, children were
asked to spend some minutes making lists of their Memory Walk. They could
work in pairs so they could jog each others’ memories. Some people were
a bit slow to get going. They couldn’t believe that – yes – what they had
to write down were simply things they remembered seeing – boats, seagulls,
dog mess, litter. Some quickly took up the invitation to add desribing
words too. Some of the lists became like poems. |
Mary
Medlicott