School children are to be taught film and blog making on visits to a village windmill.
17 December 2014
The University of Brighton will tailor lessons to match the children’s current learning topics.
The project will be at Windmill Hill village’s windmill and follows an award of £80,800 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to restore machinery and sweeps at the local landmark near Herstmonceux, East Sussex.
The university’s outreach project will use educational packs to introduce school students to taking photographs, filming one-minute documentaries and writing blogs.
The finished items will be used by the pupils’ schools, the university and the windmill trust. In addition, a university media student will be making a promotional video for the event which will include interviews with pupils and windmill volunteers.
Wendy Heasmer, the university’s Campus Outreach and Recruitment Coordinator, said: “The project will involve our Widening Participation staff and media academics and students from our media programmes.
“This is an exciting opportunity for us to be involved in a great restoration project, to engage with the local community and to help school students with their learning experience.”
Led by volunteers from the local community, the Windmill Hill Windmill Trust’s restoration work will start this month and is expected to be completed next autumn. The mill, built in 1814 and a Grade II* listed building, will be restored so that it will grind flour once again.
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