Fairlynch
Museum’s Education Outreach officer Lizzie Mee with Sir Walter, Head Charlotte
Johnston and three of the pupils at St Peter's Preparatory School, Lympstone
All 300 pupils with their
teachers at this leading independent preparatory school for 3 to 13- year-olds are
involved in the Raleigh 400 project to learn about Sir Walter and his times.
St Peter’s has its own
baccalaureate which is well suited to the subject: it includes studies of explorers,
Native America and the Tudors, and the impact of religion throughout history.
‘We would be very happy to promote the Raleigh 400 exhibition to our parents and children,' wrote the school's Head of Humanities Amy Hughes to Raleigh 400 organisers at Fairlynch Museum.
'I have included it in my Humanities development plan and we are looking forward to ensuring that this important event, the 400th anniversary year of his death is one to remember. Staff are currently planning and deciding which activities to do with their classes. We fully support the work that you are doing. We plan to discuss how as a school we are going to make sure this local Devonian is remembered. We are excited!’
Dressed in my finest apparel,
complete with ostrich feather, rapier, bejeweled fingers, (and of
course colossal arrogance, as I told the children) Sir Walter gave an account of
his amazing life.
Raleigh spoke for an impressive 40
minutes or so on the scaffold before he was executed. I didn’t have quite as
long in the St Peter’s school assembly on Friday 21 September, and I’m not as
tall as the great man but I hope I gave the children an idea of why he is our
local hero.
‘Sir
Walter Raleigh is indeed a fascinating character and it is great to see the
children's interest in him grow,’ wrote Amy Hughes to me
after the event.
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