A Sense of Place is a 麻豆官网首页入口 radio project which has been running across the UK since the end of April 2002. It has been on all 43 麻豆官网首页入口 radio stations including 麻豆官网首页入口 WM.
| 听 |  | Kids surfing the web at the Sense of Place exhibition
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On 麻豆官网首页入口 WM, Sense of Place featured six documentaries which celebrated the distinctive qualities of communities in Coventry and Warwickshire.
The radio series for our area were under the following titles:
1. Sent to Coventry
2. Life After the Pit
3. A Day in the Country
4. A City Built by Immigrants
5. Life At Myton
6. A Ship Called Coventry
Listen to them all on with the links on the left.
听A Sense Of Place for Schools competition
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| 听 |  | Stoke Primary School working with Stoke Park school in Coventry on their collaborative film
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The Sense of Place competition for schools was a natural extension of the original radio programmes.
In association with 麻豆官网首页入口 Education, 麻豆官网首页入口 WM devised a competition for 9 and 10 year olds in primary schools.
Year 5 children were invited to produce an item of work using six key themes that characterise their own Sense of Place, linked to the current National Curriculum.
More than 40 schools across the region took part. Four schools from the Coventry and Warwickshire region entered the competition.
These were Oakfield Junior School in Atherstone, Goodyers End Primary School in Bedworth, Stoke Park Secondary & Community College and Stoke Primary School in Coventry.
The work could be submitted in the form of audio or words and pictures. Stoke Primary School and Stoke Park Secondary School collaborated to create a video about their schools. The other schools from the region submitted beautiful poetry and written work.
You can see some of the work on this website by following the links on the left or you can visit the exhibition at Millennium Point. Details of the exhibition are below.
The six themes were:
1. Our Super School
2. Traffic Trouble
3. Dear Diary
4. Settlement Special
5. A place for Poetry
6. Local Legend
听| 听 |  | Carl Chinn talking to some of the Sense of Place winners
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On 26 September the winners were announced by 麻豆官网首页入口 WM in a live broadcast from the exhibition on the Carl Chinn Afternoon Show.
The winners were Stoke Primary School and Stoke Park School and Community Technology College for their film collaboration.
For their prize, the winners were invited to a special exhibition at Millennium Point and spoke on Carl's show about the project.
听The winners' exhibition
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| 听 |  | The 麻豆官网首页入口 Sense of Place exhibition
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Between 23-27 September 2002, the 麻豆官网首页入口 staged an exhibition at Millennium Point, Birmingham's new science and technology centre. This was part of Millennium Point's first birthday celebrations.
This marked the culmination of the 麻豆官网首页入口 Sense of Place for Schools competition as the event featured work from competing schools.
| 听 |  | Some of the Sense of Place winners with Carl
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It was also a showcase for the work of 麻豆官网首页入口 WM, the 麻豆官网首页入口 Birmingham website and the 麻豆官网首页入口 Coventry and Warwickshire website.
Visitors were delighted to see the children's work displayed at the 麻豆官网首页入口's stand located in The Hub area of the giant complex in Birmingham's Eastside.
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