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A guide to what's new at the Moorland Discovery
Centre 
Secondary school pupils from Abbeydale Grange
and Bents Green Schools in Sheffield have been taking part in a
School Arts Partnership project, with the Moorland Discovery Team,
at the National Trust’s Longshaw Estate. The project has involved
school pupils working with a local artist to create a unique, giant
spiral mobile which was unveiled at a celebration event on 8 April.
The students, who were aged 15, took part
in the project to discover the moorlands through art. The students
took part in moorland walks, drawing activities and developed a
metalwork mobile about moorland wildlife on and around the Longshaw
Estate. They worked alongside Sheffield based artist Theo Wickenden
who led the workshops with the Learning Officers who are based at
Longshaw’s newly built, award-winning Moorland Discovery Centre.
The School Arts Partnership has been run for over four years by
the National Trust and this year it was sponsored by Sky. The project
aims to link, through learning, schools from contrasting backgrounds
to a local National Trust property. School pupils are introduced
to new ways of learning with specialist arts-based projects aimed
at investigating the heritage of the area.
Wards Croft – Developing the Ground
of the Moorland Discovery Centre
During the autumn we are hoping to further
develop the Moorland Discovery Centre by landscaping the grounds
around the building. We have been working with the Ramblers Association
who have awarded the Moorland Discovery Centre £26k through
a legacy. The grounds are to be named Wards Croft after JP Ward
a local Sheffield rambling enthusiast who left the legacy to the
Ramblers Association.
We are planning on developing the grounds
to allow better easy access to the site as well as show casing some
of the wonderful moorland plant and moorland habitats. This landscaping
will also give us some new out door teaching areas. Once the work
is finished during the winter 08 the Moorland Discovery Centre will
finally be completed and sit as it was intended in its own moorland
surroundings.
Have you thought about trying you hand at
textile art but not know how to get started?
Well in the autumn at the Moorland Discovery
Centre we will be hosting a short course run by a local women’s
group Art Through Textiles. This six week course will look at a
different technique each week to give you a taster of different
skills. The project will culminate in producing a joint work which
will form part of a display at the Moorland Discovery Centre.
The textile work will take it’s inspiration
from Longshaw and the surrounding moorland environment. As well
as running this wonderful introductory course Art Through Textiles
will also be using the same theme for its members to produce a professional
exhibit of textile work. The exhibit will be displayed in the local
area and in Sheffield in the New Year.
If you are interested in more information
about this course then please contact
the team at the Moorland Discovery Centre.
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