About
 More than 200 countries will compete in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Each of these countries and their teams of athletes and visitors will have different stories and cultural experiences to share. What stories do adults and children living in London have to share? How are these stories passed on from generation to generation? How do stories reflect our own experiences and cultural values? These are just some of the questions practitioners set out to answer with help from pupils, teachers and parents from a range of London schools.
This project set out to celebrate and explore the cultural identity of families living in London by sharing stories, songs and memories collected into jam jars and recipe books.
The schools:
Greenwich
Holy Family RC Primary School – Years 2 and 4 looked at ‘Growth and Growing’ to create their own stories.
Greenwich
Notre Dame Primary School – each pupil created a story jar and a class recipe book for their family recipes.
Greenwich
Horn Park Primary School – pupils led the project to talk about scary stories, ghost stories, and food while teachers linked the work to areas of the curriculum.
Greenwich
Invicta Primary School – parents and siblings shared stories and personal histories, while Years 3 and 4 created flowers full of sense memories.
Hackney
William Patten Primary School – Year 4 created a shadow puppet play for the school’s International Evening.
Haringey
Stroud Green Primary School – pupils created a wonderful story about a rabbit that lived beneath the school.
Lambeth
Elm Wood Primary School – pupils created poetry jam using their cultural heritage and roots for ingredients.
Lambeth
Telferscot Primary School – pupils made a magic seed to create stories which grew into large scale sculptures.
Lambeth
Heathbrook Primary School – each pupil developed a photo-story based on their family, with illustrations and sound recording.
Lambeth
Paxton Primary School – pupils worked on the theme of Cultural Heritage and Roots to explore different ways of telling their stories.
Redbridge
Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School – each pupil recorded a line in a story and an illustration to create a picture sequence.
Redbridge
Churchfields Infants School – pupils used song and games to explore structures of story making.
Redbridge
Gearies Infant School – worked with Roding School and a reception class to create a series of stories about ‘Holly the hedgehog’.
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Lead organisation:
Discover Children’s Story Centre is the UK’s first hands-on creative literacy centre for children aged 0-11 years and their families, carers and teachers. www.discover.org.uk
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