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Children's film project at the Bert Sutcliffe Retirement Village
In addition to my work as a Personal Historian, I teach the Gifted & Talented Group of children at a local primary school on a part-time basis. The opportunity I have of working with both old and young recently led to an inspiration to bring the two together in a unique and exciting video project. Residents at the Bert Sutcliffe Retirement Village volunteered as subjects to be interviewed about their childhood and twelve children prepared in advance and were transported to the village to undertake this special task. The children worked in pairs with one asking the questions while the other carefully captured the precious memories on an ipad video. The exercise evidently proved rather moving for some of the residents who sported a tear in their eye when the children asked if they could recall a happy childhood memory. |
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This project proved to be very successful because:
The children showed their appreciation of the Village afternoon tea by demolishing it in short order while the end result of the project was the residents’ own copy of their interview which we presented to them on their own individual flash drives. Personally, I was heartened by the many positive comments I’ve received and feedback such as “what a wonderful thing to do” certainly made the organisation of the project well worthwhile.
Bringing old and young together to preserve life stories – nothing better!
- it required the children to work with ipads and video technology in an off-site setting
- it gave the youngies an appreciation of older people in a retirement village environment
- it presented a unique opportunity for the village residents to see the children at work with technology
- and most importantly it validated the fact for old and young that seniors’ life stories are extremely important
The children showed their appreciation of the Village afternoon tea by demolishing it in short order while the end result of the project was the residents’ own copy of their interview which we presented to them on their own individual flash drives. Personally, I was heartened by the many positive comments I’ve received and feedback such as “what a wonderful thing to do” certainly made the organisation of the project well worthwhile.
Bringing old and young together to preserve life stories – nothing better!
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