For the past three years Porthcothan Beach School has developed and trialled resources for teachers and
children to support the themes arising from The
Wrecking Season, a film
about everything that washes up on Cornish
beaches, Cornwall’s place in the Atlantic community and issues of
global pollution and conservation.
In the summer of 2013 Porthcothan Beach School
are offering beach resources to support coastline projects. These
will include a DVD of the film The
Wrecking Season, a loan box of strandline booty and a
booklet of cross curricular resources linked to the film, including
worksheets, investigations and creative ideas.
Also included in the
resource will be the opportunity to visit Jane Darke’s house on
Porthcothan beach to learn more about the extraordinary collection of
artefacts gathered over twenty years of wrecking and to take part in
a range of beach workshops run by the artist Andrew Tebbs.
The learning resources have been designed by Jane Darke, an artist
and filmmaker, and teacher Rachel Berrington, who is passionate about using the beach as
an outside classroom.
To find out more about The Wrecking Season visit www.janedarke.net
‘This story is about
what’s cast up on the shore, who picks it up, what they learn from
it and the uses they put it to. It’s a story of extraordinary
journeys which have their beginnings from the frozen North all the
way down to the Eastern seaboard of the America’s to the deep
jungle of the Amazon.’
Nick Darke, The Wrecking Season
Nick Darke was a Cornish
playwright and beachcomber who wrote extensively about Cornwall and
environmental issues. www.nickdarke.net
Thanks to the Gulf
Stream the North coast of Cornwall is one of the best places in the
world for receiving ocean flotsam.
