In March this year the primary school story telling competition was launched. Heartlands teamed up with Pool Business and Enterprise College to collect stories from local primary school students describing what life is like to grow up in Cornwall. Kirsty Davies from Heartlands and Mr Annear from Pool Business and Enterprise College worked with 7 local primary schools – Illogan School, Pencoys Primary School, Portreath Community Primary School, Rosemellin Community Primary School, Roskear Primary School, St Johns Catholic Primary School, Treloweth Community Primary School.
It was really inspiring to hear the students True Life Tales and thought the stories should be celebrated with a big event. All 7 schools attended Carn Brea Leisure Centre, where over 220 young people came ready and eager to listen and tell each other their stories. There was even an appearance from professional story-teller, Mark Harandon.
As it was a competition there was the very difficult job of judging the stories, especially as they were to such a high standard. Four winners from each school were chosen and were awarded a book token, with all students receiving a certificate and the very special prize of an illustrated story book. To mark the end of such a successful primary school project a story book was compiled of all the winners stories. A local illustrator called Rachel Axtell illustrated the story book. I think the students and teachers who took part in the True Life Tales competition will agree that the story book makes a great keepsake.
A big thank from Heartlands and Pool Business and Enterprise College goes to all 7 primary schools for your enthusiasm and wonderful stories which will contribute to the Heartlands Social History Archive. The archive will be stored at Heartlands and features stories from local residents, young people and miners about life in Pool. The archive will be used to inspire artists and designers working at Heartlands.
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