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Big Wide Talk is an independent uniquely skilled organisation that reaches out to and speaks with children, parents and practitioners where they live and work, strategically connecting them to government. We are committed to documenting debate about children’s lives, regardless of race, religion, politics or gender and to raising awareness about inequality and the ways in which it can be redressed.
We use a problem-solving approach rooted in participative action research and sustained deliberative dialogue. In this way we deliver projects in partnership with parents, community groups, local authorities, schools, and other public bodies that address many of the issues that confound existing solutions: the gap in educational achievement between the poorest and better off children; the reconciliation of family and employment; the inclusion of children with disabilities, and the eradication of child poverty. |
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“My daughter’s learned not be scared of heights or the dark… it’s learning because it’s giving them confidence.” Helen Furness, Parent from Morecambe Bay Primary
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Morecambe Theatre of Learning Marches On!Big Wide Talk is poised to begin a wave of creative family learning across the town following the hugely successful Morecambe Theatre of Learning. Parents across the town are signed up to share their experience with their children. Using film footage of the children climbing and experimenting with light we will set up individual sessions with parents and children so that they can discuss the experience and what they learned.
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“My son is daring…He thought it was great just to be able to feel safe and achieve something at the same time.” Vicky Fawcett, Parent from Morecambe Bay Primary
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Conversations will be filmed and used along with film from the event to make mini- documentaries for the Morecambe Theatre of Learning Film festival, to be held in the Winter Gardens in March. Parents and grandparents who visited talked about their memories of the building; how their mums and dads met each other there, how members of the family worked there. One grandmother, visiting with daughter and grandson, talked about her father playing trumpet in the orchestra. It seems most of Morecambe has a connection with the old theatre, now threatened with demolition. These new films will show another, less nostalgic, side to Morecambe - the Morecambe of today where parents and children learn as they go and look forward to the future. More... |
 
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