A project for Primary Schools in Scotland
The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City was awarded a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop a project called Adopt a Historic Building.
The aim is to raise awareness of local built heritage and to bring together pupils, communities and a number of national organisations to create a useful local archive. Organisations involved include the local councils, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Royal Town Planning Institute, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland and Scottish Screen Archive.
The pupils will work with architects, town planners, historians and property inspectors and they will also create their own models, films, photographs and drawings of the building they have chosen. This will develop into a resource that the school and community will be able to use and add to in the future.
The schools involved in this pilot stage of the project are:
- Primary 6 pupils at Victoria Road Primary, Aberdeen have chosen the Torry Battery, Aberdeen
- Primary 4-7 pupils at St Peter's Primary, Dalbeattie have chosen Old Buittle Kirk near Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway
- Primary 5-7 pupils at St Cuthbert's Primary, Maybole have chosen Maybole Town Hall, South Ayrshire
- Primary 6-7 pupils at Chatelherault Primary, Hamilton have chosen Chatelherault Hunting Lodge in South Lanarkshire
- Primary 6 pupils at St Conval's Primary School, Glasgow have chosen their own school, St Conval's in Glasgow
Over the following months the pupils will be updating the information they have discovered about their building and will communicate with each other on the development of their projects.