AGENDA


We did it! Two schools tell us about their history timelines


‘The mural is a focal point for the whole school’


F


rom 4,000,000BC to AD2023, our timeline mural at St Margaret’s Academy shows significant events and


locations from local, national and international history. It provides a visual way for the children to understand the context of what they are learning and brings their lessons to life. Our headteacher Tim Hughes was


enthusiastic from the start. We worked with him to create a list of core historical topics included in the curriculum right across the school. We were keen to include dinosaurs, knowing the younger children would love them (and they certainly do!) but we also wanted to highlight local history, so we incorporated Torquay- born writer Agatha Christie and the medieval monastery Torre Abbey. We added a few other elements, such as the internet, the first smartphone


and the King’s coronation, to help the children relate these topics to the modern world. In 2023, we raised over £20,000,


for a new library at the school. We were awarded £10,000 in grants, of which the Morrisons Foundation (morrisonsfoundation.com) gave us £9,000. The remaining funds were provided by Magic Little Grants (localgiving.org/magic-little- grants), the local authority and an anonymous donor. Since then, we had continued to generate funds through events such as our summer disco and summer fair, and everyone agreed it would be fantastic to spend some of it on the mural. We commissioned artist Neil Wilkinson- Cave from Sacredart Murals (sacredart-murals.co.uk) to create the image. One of the PTA had discovered Neil’s Facebook page some 12 months previously, and we


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