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[APRIL] [MAY] [JUNE] [JULY] [AUGUST]
[SEPTEMBER]
[OCTOBER]
[NOVEMBER]
[DECEMBER] JUNE 2004 Designing a
"Banner for
Today"
The work was done outside of
normal school
time with Head Teacher, Mrs Harwood, giving up holiday to be with the
children.
Two artists, Barry and Jon, led the children through the process
of developing ideas, designing a front and back for the
banner,
painting a background on the canvas and painting selected items on to
the
banner.
 On the morning of the
30th June 2004 a party of children from Parkside Infant
School
set out to visit Beamish Museum to discover first hand what
everyday life was like in a traditional Durham mining community. These children live in a former mining community which boasted three deep coal mines yet neither they nor their parents have ever worked down a coal mine. That is the amazing fact which is driving SDVT Banner Fund to support this project. No new employees were taken on at the pits after about 1980, which was one of the main reasons why the Great Miners Strike of 1984 took place. The government of the day was gradually "winding down" the pits. By 1992 Seaham three collieries were essentially closed. ALL of the children of Parkside Infant School were born after that date! |
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In June, the children of Parkside Infant School worked
with artists
from the Bear Park Artists Cooperative to design and assist in the
painting
of a "Banner for Today" which they would carry through Seaham and
into Durham at Durham Miners Gala on 10th July 2004. The
timetable
for this work was extremely tight and could only be achieved if
everyone
involved worked together and worked very hard.