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FACTS
| Places of interest in Bedworth:
- The Griff House
- Miners Welfare Park
- The Civic Hall
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 |  | In association with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Education, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ WM devised a competition for 9 and 10 year olds in primary schools.
Year 5 children were invited to produce an item of work using six key themes that characterise their own Sense of Place, linked to the current National Curriculum.
The work could be submitted in the form of audio, or words and pictures based on the following six themes:
1. Our Super School
2. Traffic Trouble
3. Dear Diary
4. Settlement Special
5. A place for Poetry
6. Local Legend
Oakfield Junior School in Atherstone and Goodyers End Primary School in Bedworth submitted beautiful poetry and written work.
Some of the work from the schools are featured below.
ÌýOur street is not a lively place,
say the kids in the house and the men in the cars,
Our street is not a loud place,
Say the pavements and the roads.
Our street is not a fun place,
say the bats and the balls on the floor.
Our street is not a cool place,
Say the caps in the closets.
Our street is not a spotless place,
Say the wrappers on the floors.
Our street is not for kids,
Says...ME!
Josephine,
Oakfield Junior School, Atherstone.
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| Ìý |  | Station St near Cattle Market in the 1950s
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Oakfield Junior School
Oakfield Junior School in Atherstone focused on poetry. They carried out the Sense of Place for Schools project as part of a larger geography topic.
They compared their North Warwickshire locality to South Warwickshire's Stratford-Upon-Avon.
Follow the link on the left to Atherstone Online to read about the history of the town.
Goodyers End Primary School
Year 5 pupils in class 5T at Goodyers End Primary School in Bedworth submitted beautiful work for the competition.
Children took a trip to Weston-Super-Mare and were then asked to compare their area, Bedworth, with the sea-side town.
We have featured snippets of their work below.
Bedworth compared with Weston-Super-Mare
| Ìý |  | Winnning flower baskets outside All Saints Church in Bedworth
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"Bedworth is a small town in Warwickshire. It has a famous building called the Civic Hall where musicals, plays, exhibitions and conferences are held.
"The town puts on a spectacular flower show and nearly always wins a prize. It has a Victorian building called the Water Tower that used to provide water for the houses and the pit."
Kristian
"I like all of Bedworth, especially the parks and the shops because in the parks it isn't full of litter, but in Weston-Super-Mare there isn't even a park near the beach!"
Michelle
| Ìý |  | Views of Weston-Super-Mare
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"In Bedworth I like all the activities and it's mostly free. Unlike Weston-Super-Mare where you have to pay a lot of money. Bedworth is special to me because I was brought up in Bedworth and it's a nice place to be in."
Louise Hancock
"Bedworth is a small town in Warwickshire. Bedworth has landscapes such as fields and crops that belong to farmers...Weston Super-Mare is in Somerset and is really big. In Weston-Super-Mare there is the sovereign shopping centre. Also there is the big long pier."
Andrew Griffths
ÌýThe Sense Of Place for Schools exhibition
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Between 23-27 September 2002, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ staged an exhibition to mark the culmination of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Sense of Place for Schools competition. The event was at Millennium Point, Birmingham's new science and technology centre.
The exhibition featured work from competing schools as well as acting as a showcase for the work of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ WM, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Birmingham website and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Coventry and Warwickshire website.
The children's work was displayed at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s stand located in The Hub area of the giant complex in Birmingham's Eastside.
Follow the link on the left to read more about the winning project, from two Coventry schools' who collaborated on a film project.
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