Urban Earth: CPDs

This was part of a three year project at a children’s centre in Leicester. ‘Urban Earth’ involved working with families who were using a stay and play session and practitioners at the children’s centre with a particular emphasis on learning outdoors.

We were able to offer several CPD sessions to practitioners and parents. During this project we worked with a succession of different children, parents and practitioners and we were able to develop this approach with a subsequent project called ‘uneXpected memOries’.

The CPDs were vital to the success of this project as it enabled practitioners and parents to get really creative themselves. It is these people who are working with children so it makes sense to offer them this time to discover their own creativity and imagination which many people seem to lose touch with after childhood…

Here are images of several of the sessions which include music, smells, shadow-puppets and small creature identification…The film below shows a journey of a camera through a landscape of natural materials on cardboard made by the participants of these sessions.

The project was managed, organised, co-ordinated and co-delivered by Sue Hastings without whom none of this would have happened.