The Belonging Project trailer

The project themes will include:
1. Maps – if I belong, where do I belong? How do I create a map? What can maps tell us about where we live, and about the past?
2. School log-books – incidents covered will be all about schooldays of old, a Schoolmaster’s or Schoolmistress’s comments on their charges, their waywardness, their playground games and fights, their home / family circumstances, exciting episodes in the life of the school
3. World War II – evacuation, migration, fleeing danger, persecution, the kindness (or not) of strangers
4. Kindertransport - the evacuation of children at risk under Hitler's rule to safe places in Europe (including Gloucester) ahead of WWII.

Belonging, is part of our “For the Record” project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. In 2020 It was intended that we work face-to-face with up to 20 school children, aged 9-11 years, to look creatively at themes connected with “belonging” in childhood. Due to Covid-19, the project was re-shaped and project worker Jonathan was appointed to make 4 short films all about aspects of belonging and childhood, that can later be used as a stimulus for children, when socially able.