​Write on Stowe

2 March 2016

Our exciting new literacy project!

We welcomed Bourton Meadow Academy recently as we begin our exciting new literacy project with them. Write On Stowe uses the House and its amazing history to inspire pupils to write creatively. This time, we are using Queen Victoria’s visit to Stowe in 1845 to inspire the children’s responses. The Community & Learning team had already visited Bourton Meadow in January for a morning of Victorian fun and games to get them in the 19^th century mood!  For their visit to the House, we had plenty of ways for them to be helpers as we prepared for Queen Victoria’s arrival. So we got a new portrait ready to hang (we recognised who was in the picture!), a tree ready to plant and we used the menu from 1845 to prepare a special feast. We even looked at the museum that was here at Stowe at the time and made our own special cabinet of curiosities to impress her majesty!

Apart from all of the creative and hands-on engagement that all of our learning visits include, the Bourton Meadow children wrote postcards, sensory descriptions and voiced their own introductions to the museum.  It was a very busy day!
 
All of the children involved, which range from Year 2 to Year 6, will be producing imaginative writing to be displayed in our Discovery Centre. Be sure to visit us in early summer to see the exhibition! And contact us if you’re a school who would like to work in partnership with us too.