MPPS School Heritage Project

On the 28th March, over 350 people attended our School Heritage Event!

A wonderful mix of generations milled around the displays and connected over shared memories and a shared love for Malvern Parish Primary School.  Current families, prospective pupils, old staff, headteachers and school governors were amongst those in attendance. 

To prepare

-We set up a website for people to register for the event and share their memories.  We recieived over 100 website submissions!

-We used social media to raise awareness of the event, share memories and connect alumni

-We gave out 500 flyers to neighbours, local businesses, churches and care homes

-With the help of current pupils, we researched the history of the school- speaking with old staff, local historians and visiting museums and libraries

-We promoted the event on Exhibition Walk with material produced by current students

-We made displays of all the materials and photographs we collected

-We made a video reel of oral histories, narrated by current students and a pupil tour of the school

At the event guests were able to enjoy:

• A Victorian school room complete with costumes from Malvern Theatre Players, a very strict school teacher! and a variety of authentic Victorian equipment, books and games, provided by Museums Worcestershire.
• A History room, filled with newspaper articles, artefacts, plans of the building, research conducted by young people and the opportunity to talk with Faith Renger from Malvern Museum.
• Our memory display walls, complete with written recollections, art work, quotes and photos.
• Guided tours of the building with some of our wonderful staff, many of whom have worked at the school for a number of years.
• Fun facts from our research or memories posted around the building (from Russian spies, sweets being thrown from the train tracks to haunted bell towers and the school being struck by lightning!)
• A time capsule put together by current pupils.
• Posters from our Exhibition walk display
• Refreshments, including a variety of cakes donated by families that currently attend the school.
• A space to rest and sit down, design a school flag and listen to a CD made by old pupils.
• The opportunity to buy custom designed tote bags from our school Enterprise club.
• Entertainment (provided by a young cellist Shona who currently attends the school)
• The opportunity to play 3 ball rounders in the playground- something that came up in our research as a long standing and much treasured Malvern Parish tradition!