The Causes

Fen Challenge 2003 is raising money for two community services:

Willingham Primary School

Working in association with the Heritage Service FenPast Project team at Cambridgeshire County Council, the Fen Challenge has created a 'Willingham Tour' educational pack for the children which comprises a historical record of Willingham as a typical fenland village. The pack will be installed in the IT Suite for the children to learn about maps, basic geography and appreciate how the village geography has changed over the centuries, as well as using the Internet to use www.fenchallenge.org.uk. The pack has been used to create instructional exercises and incorporated into the Geography Schemes of work at the school.

Willingham Primary School, April 1998

The map and imagery data is viewed using MapSheets Express software kindly provided by Leica Geosystems. We are very grateful to The FenPast team for supplying historical village mapping from the County archives and also Wildgoose, the education department of Getmapping plc, who specialise in Photopacks and Locality packs for Primary School modules in the QCA Schemes of work for Key Stage 2, for providing themed deskmats.

The sponsorship will go towards improving the IT Suite and Jo Brearley, Head teacher at Willingham Primary School says that “this is such an innovative and intuitive use of maps, linking geography and history and proving educational to the teaching staff too!”

Click here to visit Willingham Primary School website.

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