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News Release 14-07-2008
 
Whitehawk Primary School on the Home Front
 
http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/whitehawkhomefront
 
A new website featuring events and activities run at Whitehawk Primary
School in Brighton on life in the Second World War on the home front is
being launched this week. Screen Archive South East, at the University of
Brighton, in partnership with Whitehawk Primary School, have built the site
as part of the MLA Grant Programme for Their Past Your Future (TPYF2)
supported by the Big Lottery Fund. 
 
Over the course of four days in May 2008 children from the school engaged in
a number of learning activities aimed at encouraging young people to develop
an understanding of the conflict’s significance to their local area.
Activities at the school included meeting and interviewing 'home front
veterans' - local residents who had been at school during the Second World
War, touring the school's World War Two air raid shelter, watching and
producing commentaries for a World War Two film from Screen Archive South
East, performing drama activities, creating art work and writing articles
and poetry. 
 
The site, ‘Whitehawk Primary School on the Home Front’, offers free public
access to the many outputs from these event, including over 20 video clips
showing the children's activities and outputs. 
 
'Whitehawk Primary School on the Home Front’ is a companion site to 'Films
from the Home Front' which features archive films illustrating life on the
home front in Britain during the Second World War. Both are part of the
wider ‘Moving History’ website which presents other films from UK archives
on all subjects and aspects of film history across the twentieth century.
 
The events held at Whitehawk Primary School provided a unique opportunity
for the pupils to enrich their learning about the Second World War by
meeting former pupils who were at the school during the war, by engaging
with archive film of a local school air raid drill and by understanding the
history of the school's own shelter. 
 
This project was enabled through funding from the 'Their Past Your Future 2'
Grant Programme. which aims to emphasise intergenerational learning around
the theme of learning from past conflicts. This funding is distributed and
administered by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
 
‘Whitehawk Primary School on the Home Front’ can be visited at: 
http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/whitehawkhomefront
 
For further information about the funding programme. 
http://www.mla.gov.uk/website/programmes/their_past_your_future

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Further information/contacts:
 
* Screen Archive South East: 01273 643213 
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* MLA Press Office: 020 7273 1444 
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About Screen Archive South East
Screen Archive South East is a public sector moving image archive serving
the South East of England. Established in 1992 at the University of Brighton
as the South East Film & Video Archive, the function of this regional screen
archive is to locate, collect, preserve, provide access to and promote
screen material related to the South East and of general relevance to screen
history. For more information, please visit 
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive
 
About TPYF2
TPYF2 is a three-year programme of museum, library and archives projects,
supported by the Big Lottery Fund, which focus on increasing community
learning and young people’s knowledge and understanding of the impact,
diversity and contemporary significance of conflict. Many museums, libraries
and archives have already taken up the challenge of responding to this new
focus and, with funding administered by MLA, a series of dynamic projects
are already underway or about to begin. For further information, please visit
http://www.mla.gov.uk/website/programmes/their_past_your_future
 
About the MLA
The MLA is the lead strategic agency for museums, libraries and archives. 
It advises government on policy and priorities for the sector, and promotes
innovation and change.  For more information, please visit 
http://www.mla.gov.uk
 
About the Big Lottery Fund
The Big Lottery Fund distributes half of all National Lottery good cause
funding across the UK. The Fund aims to enable others to make real
improvements to the lives of disadvantaged people and the wellbeing of
communities, through fair and open funding of people, projects and
programmes. For more information, please visit 
http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/