A film produced by Bryan McIvor of Film Entertainments Video Services of an environmental open day held by pupils and staff of Stakesby Community School in Whitby, now Stakesby Primary Academy, on Thursday 15th July 1999 to showcase the local community its new gardens. The event is believed to be attended by the Mayor of Whitby who is given a guided tour of the grounds. Stakesby Community School on Byland Road in Whitby Title: Stakesby Community School presents Title: “An Environmental...

A film produced by Bryan McIvor of Film Entertainments Video Services of an environmental open day held by pupils and staff of Stakesby Community School in Whitby, now Stakesby Primary Academy, on Thursday 15th July 1999 to showcase the local community its new gardens. The event is believed to be attended by the Mayor of Whitby who is given a guided tour of the grounds. Stakesby Community School on Byland Road in Whitby Title: Stakesby Community School presents Title: “An Environmental Open Day” Title: On Thursday 15th July 1999 In an office inside the school a woman and man in mayoral chains are introduced to two schoolgirls and a science teacher. The couple are taken outside and given a guided tour of a garden area in the school’s grounds by the two girls The woman in mayoral chains speaks with an older couple inside the garden on the other side of a wooden fence A class of children and their teacher walks across the school sports field towards the garden around which they wonder speaking with the woman in mayoral chains. A boy sits beneath a bush drawing in a pad. The class sits on the sports field beside the garden and the woman in mayoral chains walks past accompanied by the two girls. Some of the children are drawing while others speak with the adults around them. Others wonder through the garden; two women look at a spruce growing behind a fence. Three men talk on the sports field changes to the mayoral party walking past an enclosed ‘Pond Area’. Inside a teacher watches over children working near the edge of the water. Some of the children have nets to capture amphibians in the pond, the look down with interest at the content of their nets. At another part of the school beside a wooden outdoor-classroom tables have been set up in a line. Children sit at these tables writing and drawing watched by two men. A woman in a blue top speaks with various people around the sports field. In another part of the garden chickens, one resting in the ground. Back on the sports field some of the children are weaving, a boy is interviewed about what he is doing by a young man. A girl is then interviewed who says she is weaving an archway. A man is then interviewed who confirms that the children are wearing sections that will form an archway into the garden when finished. Another girl is interviewed about what she has found in the pond. Back at the long table a teacher passes out coloured pencils to the pupils who are doing drawings. Three women, one with a pushchair stand chatting on the sports field. Back inside the school the woman in mayoral chains receives an applause and thanks the pupils for their tour of the school as well as the bouquet she is holding. She speaks with a young mother and her child before leaving. Outside in the garden again the group pose for photographs, the woman in mayoral chains speaks with the photographer. A sign on a door reads ‘Animal Area’. Chicken, buggies, rabbits, and other small animals inside a small menagerie. Two girls are interviewed about the work they do in the ‘Animal Area’. Out on the sports field a teacher helps a group of pupils use a surveyor’s wheel. A girl measures out nine metres listing out for nine clicks of the wheel. They mark the ground with chalk. The exercise is repeated several times. The woman in the blue top seen previously is interviewed about what the children are marking out. They are marking out the perimeter for a millennium woodland area. She talks about what will be inside the area plus how the children will contribute to its construction. She believes the day has been very successful in showing the local community how the outdoor gardens at the school are used by the children. End credit: A Film Entertainments Video presentation. Tel Stockton (01642) 553120 End title: Copyright 1999