In 2025 Trevor Basin will have a brand new Gland?r Cymru Education Resource Space.
To understand more about the uniqueness of the World Heritage Site and how the waterways can represent schools, learners and their communities, Gland?r Cymru invited schools across Wrexham to apply to take part in a Creative Learning opportunity alongside filmmaker, photographer, storyteller and actress Jenny Berrisford.
Ysgol Acrefair have been working with 22 learners and their teacher from year 3 to represent how and why the aqueduct was built. Taking on the role of investigators, the learners have been exploring, ‘who used the aqueduct in 1805?’ Over the duration of the enquiry the learners have developed their knowledge and skills in film and digital media to create a video report of the grand opening of the aqueduct.
The learners have had the opportunity to explore their locality and their sense of belonging. Broadening their understanding of geographical and historical concepts and linking to Curriculum for Wales across Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Humanities, Language, Literacy and Communication and Science and Technology.
The initiative has been led by Hannah Greys. Hannah has experience most notably in art logistics, at Creative Skillset Cymru developing projects for colleges and universities focused on Professional Development for teaching staff and with Arts Council of Wales’ Creative Learning Cymru programme supporting schools and early years settings
across Wales.